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• Top Left Frame

  - Program Functions

  

  OPEN

  - Open Hard drive files

  VIEW

  - Displays current source code located in the textarea. Code appears in the Target frame/window

  PRINT

  - Prints the current source code located in the textarea

  TARGET

  - Target Frame

  - Alters the display frame destination for View / Backgrounds / Print / Hard drive files

  RESET

  - Reset edit screen and/or System parameters

  SAVE

  - Saving source code information

  STORE

  - Additional storage for main textarea data/ HTML case / User ID

  SEARCH

  - Web Search Engines and Newsgroups / List URLS

  HELP

  - Program overview / Help Topics / Bugs

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• Top Center Frame

  - Tags

  

  CLIPBOARD

  - Cut and paste option for IE users (Navigator can successfully copy code from the textarea into a text/html editor).

  SEARCH AND REPLACE

  - Search and Replace textarea code

  SCRIPT PLUGIN

  - Object Orientated functions / JavaScripts

  These features are accessed by subscription or through your ISP. Click the script button for more information.

  IMAGES

  - Insert Pictures

  PROGRAM LOGO

  - Program Copyright.

  BULLETS

  - Bullet tags

  LINKS

  - Link Methods

  FORMS

  - Form Elements

  TABLES

  - Table Elements

  LEFT

  - Align / unalign document to the left

  CENTER

  - Align / unalign document to the center

  RIGHT

  - Align / unalign document to the right

  CSS

  - Cascading Style Sheet elements

  LINE BREAK

  - Line Break tag

  FONT

  - Font Color / Size / Face / End tags

  SPACE

  - Paragraph / Break / Word Space tags

  BOLD

  - Bold tags

  ITALICS

  - Italics tags

  UNDERLINE

  - Underline tags

  HEADINGS

  - Heading 1 - 6 tags

  FRAMES

  - Create Framesets

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• Top Right Frame

  - Background Images

  

  1 - 40 IMAGES

  An image, when clicked, will automatically appear in the current display screen with it's URL embedded in the middle. When clicked, it will also set/reset the Global background image. Click the arrow to update it in the textarea then click VIEW to see it without the image URL embedded in it (along with any existing textarea data).

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• Mid Right Frame

  - Global Page Attributes

  

  TITLE

  - Document Title

  META

  - Document Description / Keywords / Author / Published with / No Cache

  IMAGE

  - Document Background Image

  COLOR

  - Document Background Color

  TEXT

  - Document Text Color

  LINK

  - Document Link Color

  VISITED LINK

  - Document Visited Link color

  ACTIVE LINK

  - Document Active Link color

  MARGINS

  - Document Margins

  HANDLERS

  - Body tag script handlers

  ARROW

  - Sends code to the top line of the textarea.

  END TAGS

  - Sends the final tags (/body - /html) to the last line of the textarea

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• Base Right Frame

  - Quick Start & Frame Templates

  Quick Start provides tips to getting started.

  

  Click to edit framesets after clicking the frameset icon found in the top center panel.

  

  Frameset code will replace existing textarea code. The frameset checkbox adjusts the frame border size. These variables can be further adjusted once the code appears. The frameset columns and rows default to % but can be set to fixed widths by removing the %. Communicator won't always display an accurate fixed size (but it's close).

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• Base Mid Right Frame

  - Color Panel

  
  

  Click to test/change document colors. The color chart will always appear in the mid left frame (testview)

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• Base Left Frame

  - Function Templates

  Bullets / Forms / Tables / Links / Cut & Paste / Search & Replace / Net Search & URL launch

  Bullets
  

  Forms
  
  The checkbox when checked embeds script handlers into the form elements.

  Tables
  

  Links
  

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• Mid Left Frame

  - Testview Screen

  Displays results stored in the textarea if testview is the set target

  Displays color chart

  Displays Storage

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• Mid Right Frame

  - TEXTAREA

  Prompt - When prompt is checked, code is returned in a prompt which you can cut & paste into the page or send to the last line.

  Symbol - When Symbol is checked, you are prompted for a symbol (which can be one or a number of keybord characters) and code replaces the symbol wherever it occurs.

  The default symbol is the ` which was chosen partly because it is rarely used in text/html/script. You can change this to be any character or any number of characters.

  If the assigned symbol is placed in several parts of the textarea and a tag icon is clicked, the tag will appear wherever the symbol occurs in the textarea. This is a quick and handy form of editing when you need a tag to appear in several parts of the document. EG: Several table cells may require font tags (Nav) so placing the Symbol inside each table cell and clicking a font tag will insert it inside each table cell. If the symbol can't be found on the page then the no tag is sent.

  Netscape users cannot make the symbol the last character on the page but will need to add a space after the symbol for the tag to appear.

  Textarea Size - Clicking this icon allows you to adjust the current textarea size. Prompt mode is returned to each time the textarea size is adjusted.

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• Mid Top Frame

  - Additional Information

  Color parameters and Script templates (if available)

Troubleshooting

- Right mouse click on a non active area of the frame the alert came from and select Refresh/Reload Frame.

If Symbol mode duplicates tags or doesn't send the tag (Nav bugs).

If tags are not sent you need to make sure the Symbol is not the last thing on the page (follow it with a space). If tags duplicate over the page there is nothing you can do about it except click Reset and start again. Use Store to store textarea code as you go (upto 4kb).

If the alerts continue you may need to close and re open the program.

If the screen displaying the results doesn't reflect what's in the textarea, click in the textarea then click View again.

If the background image doesn't appear, uncheck and re check the box then send with the right arrow (clear previous head and body code from the textarea first).

If Test windows pop out of nowhere, click TARGET and set/reset it to testview so results appear in the mid left frame.

If Frames fan, depress the screen then bring it back into focus (IE bug).

Long or heavy sessions may cause some cookie settings to be deleted. This occurs because of the current cookie limitations (4 kb each - 40 cookies per server/client). After the 40th cookie is used the first cookie is deleted. This may translate into the username being reset to Guest, HTML case set to uppercase and other settings returning to their default setting. Other side effects may result in the View not displaying an accurate result of the source code. If this occurs, you are best off clicking the Reset button and re initialising the program. If problems still occur you should close and re open the program.

Re entering data (username, html case, etc) will re activate each cookie.

WebFlex uses over 60 cookies in total (depending on which part of the editor you are using) to assist in project development.

Resizing the editor once fully loaded is not recommended if using Netscape. Navigator reloads each page when resized and, as up to 50 pages can be in use at any one time, this does slow the works down.

Which browser is better? For getting the most use out of WebFlex there is no question, IE4+ wins when performing most functions. For frame control, dynamic writing and working with hard drive files IE offers a smoother ride.

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