WebDesign lets you save files just as easily as any other text editor or word processing application. The familiar Command-S saves a modified document and shift-command-S allows you to save the document in another location by doing a 'Save As...'.
WebDesign lets you save documents just like any other word processing application. The save menu item becomes enabled once you make any modification to your document. WebDesign also allows you to save all opened documents at once. Hold down option as you select the File menu to turn the save command into a 'Save All' command.
When you have opened a web page from a remote location such as a FTP server using the built in FTP client, WebDesign will automatically save the document back to your server when you select the Save command from the file menu (Command-S). A status window will open with your FTP login information that WebDesign stored when you first downloaded the page as shown below.
As your page is being automatically uploaded back to your FTP Server, your document is temporarily disabled until WebDesign is finished.
Save to FTP...
WebDesign lets you save files directly to your FTP server. Just select 'Save To FTP...' from the File menu to open the FTP client then enter your login information, navigate to the location you want to save your file in and press the 'Upload Page' button as shown below.
Save files directly to your FTP Server when working in WebDesign. Just select 'Save to FTP...' from the File menu.
Once you save the file to your FTP server, WebDesign will continue to upload it back automatically each time you save your file regularly in WebDesign. It will also update the local copy if it was previously saved on your hard drive.
Custom Save OptionsWebDesign lets you set different options when saving files as you can see from the saving preferences options below. To modify the saving options select the 'Document' tab from the Preferences window. The following options, depicted below, allow you to do the following;
WebDesign lets you set the type of line breaks that your document will use. Since WebDesign will recognize and convert any line breaks in a document you open, you don't have worry about what you save your line breaks as if you were just using WebDesign and no other editor application, although most other applications will recognize and correctly display any document with any line breaks.
Each operating system, Windows, Unix/Linux, and Macintosh, use different characters when creating line breaks. Macintosh line breaks consist of the character with an ASCII value of 13 and this option should be used if you are going to be sending or using the file only on a Macintosh. Unix line breaks consist of the character with an ASCII value of 10. This option, set by default on Mac OS X, should be used if you plan on sending your file to someone on a Unix system or if you plan on uploading your web page to a Unix server. Lastly Windows line breaks uses two characters consisting of the ASCII value of 10 and 13. If you plan on sending your file to a Windows machine or are uploading to a Windows server, you should use this option. By default, documents are saved as unix files and this should not cause a problem for you unless you are using another application that does not support Unix line breaks. It is a good idea to keep this option set as most servers expect this type of line break.
WebDesign can keep track of the document's line breaks when you open a document and save it back using the same line breaks by selecting this option from the Line Breaks popup menu.
WebDesign lets you control the type of file that a document you save is saved as. If you set it to anything other than WebDesign, your document will be opened in that application when it is double clicked in the Finder. You can still open it in WebDesign by using the Open Dialog (File Open...) or drag and dropping the file on WebDesign's icon in the Finder. You have to type in the 4 character document code or select one of the applications from the popup menu beside the field.
Note: If you don't have the selected application installed on your computer, the Finder may report an error when you double click it to open it in the Finder.
If you want your documents to always retain their original document type when you open than save the document in WebDesign just check the 'Keep original creator code' check box.
Save files depending on the operating system you will be using them on. Saving as Unix will allow virtually all editors to be able to read your document and allow your page to be compatible with virtually all web servers. You can save files as any kind of document by entering their 4-character creator code. The popup-menu provides some common creator codes that you may want to save your file as. When you double click the document in the Finder it will be opened in the application that you have specified.