Copyright: Cool Page 2.6 Help, Copyright © 1997-2000 3Dize, Inc., All Rights Reserved


click mouse

Press the primary mouse button down and immediately release it, but do NOT move the mouse position.  If the mouse position is moved more than a very slight amount while the mouse button is down, it becomes a drag instead.


double-click mouse

Quickly click the primary mouse button twice, but do NOT move the mouse position.  If the mouse position is moved more than a very slight amount during a double-click, it becomes a drag instead.

The required speed of the 2 clicks can be adjusted in the Buttons section of the Mouse panel  in the Windows Control Panel.


drag mouse

Move the mouse position while the primary mouse button is pressed and held down.  Once the primary mouse button is released, the drag is finished.  If the mouse position is not moved more than a very slight amount before the primary mouse button is released, the drag is never started and becomes a click instead.


press mouse

Push the primary mouse button down, but do NOT release it.


Primary and Secondary mouse buttons

Normally, the left mouse button is the primary mouse button, and the right mouse button is the secondary mouse button.

However, if the user has changed the Button configuration to Left-handed in Buttons section of the Mouse panel in the Windows Control Panel, then the button meanings are swapped.


active window

The non-Toolbar window whose title bar is a different color than all the other non-Toolbar windows.  This is the Active Title Bar color, which is usually dark blue.  Note, that Toolbar and other “stay on top” windows are always active because they sit on top of all other windows.

The Active Title Bar color is set in the Item and Color fields in the Appearance section of the Display panel in the Windows Control Panel.

A window can be made the active window by clicking it’s title bar.

The active web page is the web page associated with the active window.  If the active window does not associate with any web page, as is the case when the Objects window is active, then there is no active web page.  When there is no active web page, many menus and Toolbar buttons are disabled because COOL Page does not know which web page to edit.


dialog box

A window that appears to edit/collect information or carry out some action.  A dialog box is usually dismissed with a button, such as OK, Cancel, Close, Yes, or No.

To obtain help on a COOL Page dialog box:

- pause the mouse pointer over an item for 2 seconds and a Tooltip will appear

- read the Status Bar message, while the mouse pointer is positioned over the item

- for more detailed help on an item, press the F1 key, while the mouse pointer is positioned over the item

- for detailed help on the entire dialog, click the Help button

- click the [image] button at the top of the dialog box


interactive

Instantaneous visual feedback as something is adjusted or navigated.

Interactive things provide more timely visual results, thus making adjustments easier, more efficient, more creative, more precise, etc..


selected objects
selected object

In COOL Page, the “current selection” refers to the object or text that is selected in the active web page.

Hold down the Shift or Control (Ctrl) key and click multiple objects to select more than one object.


Toolbar

A toolbar is usually a collection of small pictorial buttons and sometimes other controls.  Some buttons cause an action to happen immediately when clicked, while others are on/off buttons.  Disabled buttons appear ghosted and do nothing when clicked.

Status Bar and Tooltip help is obtained by positioning the mouse pointer over a button.  Additional help can be obtained by pressing the F1 key while the mouse pointer is over a button.

Toolbars can float on top of other windows in their own moveable and sizeable window:

or they can attach to any inner side of the main COOL Page window:

Several ways to float an attached Toolbar

1. See Float All.

2. Double-click the Toolbar window, but not on a button or other control.

3. Position the mouse over the Toolbar, but not on a button or other control.  Press and drag the mouse to move the Toolbar outline sufficiently away from any inner side of the main COOL Page window.  Release the mouse button.

To change the attached position of a Toolbar, press and drag it as described above, but to a new position on the any inner side of the main COOL Page window.

Several ways to attach a floated Toolbar

1. See Reset All.

2. Double-click the Toolbar, but not on a button or other control.

3. Position the mouse over the Toolbar, but not on a button or other control.  Press and drag the mouse to move the Toolbar outline sufficiently close to any inner side of the main COOL Page window.  Release the mouse button.

Moving and changing the size of floated Toolbar windows is done in the same way as for a normal window.  By changing the size of a floated Toolbar window, the buttons can be reorganized into a different number of columns and rows.

Toolbars can be shown and hidden from the View menu

Beginner Toolbar

Main Toolbar

Links Toolbar

Advanced Toolbar

File Toolbar


Tooltip

A Tooltip is help text that pops up in a colored box next the item that the mouse is positioned over.  Note that the mouse must remain stationary for about 2 seconds before the Tooltip will appear.  The Tooltip automatically disappears after a few seconds.  To make the Tooltip re-appear, move the mouse pointer over a different item.

A unique feature of COOL Page is that it supports Tooltips for all buttons throughout the program, not just Toolbar buttons.

When a Tooltip appears, more detailed help text also appears on the Status Bar.  And, very detailed help can be displayed by pressing the F1 key.

The color of Tooltips is set in the Item: field of the Appearance section of the Display panel in the Windows Control Panel.


window title bar

The top portion of a window that contains the title text.


Windows Control Panel

This can be found by clicking the Settings menu item after clicking Start from the Windows Taskbar.  Refer to the Help menu in the Windows Control Panel for more information.

The Windows Control Panel is not part of the COOL Page product.  It is part of the Windows operating system software product that came with your computer.  Please direct all inquiries about it’s use, problems, suggestions, or complements to Microsoft Corporation.


Windows File dialog box

This dialog box is used to specify file(s).

The types of files can be specified with the Files of type: option.

Files can also be deleted in this dialog box by selecting them and then pressing the Delete key.  A file can be renamed in this dialog box by selecting it, pausing a second, and then clicking it again.

The Windows File dialog box is not part of the COOL Page product.  It is part of the Windows operating system software product that came with your computer.  Please direct all inquiries about it’s use, problems, suggestions, or complements to Microsoft Corporation.


Windows Taskbar

This can usually be found by moving the mouse to the absolute bottom of the computer display.  If the Windows Taskbar is set to Auto hide, it will automatically appear when the mouse is moved to the absolute bottom.  If the Windows Taskbar is set to Always on top off, it will not become visible if there are any windows positioned on top of it, and you must resize or move any such windows in order to access the Windows Taskbar.  Sometimes users will drag the Windows Taskbar to the top, left, or right side of the computer display.

The size and position of the Windows Taskbar can adjusted by pressing and dragging it’s edges just as for sizing and moving normal windows.  Note that certain properties and sizes of the Windows Taskbar can cause it to cover and hide parts of COOL Page.

The Windows Taskbar properties can be found by right clicking it or by clicking the Settings menu item after clicking Start from the Windows Taskbar.  Refer to the Help menu item, that can be found after clicking Start from the Windows Taskbar, for more information.

The Windows Taskbar is not part of the COOL Page product.  It is part of the Windows operating system software product that came with your computer.  Please direct all inquiries about it’s use, problems, suggestions, or complements to Microsoft Corporation.


Windows operating system

The operating system software product that came with your computer.  This is not part of the COOL Page product, although your computer and COOL Page require Windows in order to run.

Additional help on this product is available by clicking Help after clicking the Start menu in the Windows Taskbar.  Please direct all inquiries about Windows’ use, problems, suggestions, or complements to Microsoft Corporation.


Contact Microsoft Corporation

Since Microsoft seems to have a large number of telephone numbers dedicated to different purposes, the most consistent way to contact them by telephone is to call long-distance directory information and ask for their number:

(206) 555-1212

Internet

Access the Microsoft Knowledge Base and Software Library. The Microsoft World Wide Web site is located at http://www.microsoft.com. The Microsoft Gopher site is located at gopher.microsoft.com. The Microsoft FTP site is located at ftp.microsoft.com and can be accessed via anonymous logon.

Microsoft, Microsoft Press, MS, MS-DOS, Visual Basic, Windows, Win32, and Win32s are registered trademarks; and Visual C++ and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.


Contact 3Dize

Internet:	http://www.3Dize.com  http://www.CoolPage.com  http://www.Cool-Page.com
Email:	support@3Dize.com
Mail:	3Dize, Inc. P.O. Box 4317 Bellingham, WA  98227-4317 U.S.A.
Phone:	(206) 374 - 2943   please contact us via email as this is more efficient


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No Additional Help Available

There is no additional help available for this item.  For help, please read the Tooltip and Status Bar message when mouse is paused over the item.

Also please read the Getting Started section.

If you feel the item needs more extensive help, please report it to 3Dize support.


Getting Started

Make sure you read this entire section carefully if you want to have a good start with COOL Page.  Impatient people put on your patience cap and read these few pages at least.  Please!

COOL Page is based on the concept of objects.  You can have unlimited objects on the page.  The first click on an object, selects the object for moving, or to edit it’s properties by selecting Object from the Edit menu.  The second click on the object is for editing the object itself.  For example, you must click a Text Box twice to enable the cursor.  Once you see the cursor (vertical line) then you can go about editing the text within the Text Box.

Although this concept of objects is slightly more difficult than using a word processor, the benefit is enormous because you can move objects any where on the page with complete freedom and pixel precise placement.  Just drag them!

To repeat, when you want to edit the object itself, click it twice.  To edit the global properties of the object, single-click it and then choose Object from the Edit menu.

Images are pretty obvious in COOL Page--  just drop them in or use [image] Import.  Then move them around.

Some key topics about learning COOL Page are:

1. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

2. Intro: saving, publishing, linking, and multi-page sites

3. Editing text and changing the text color, size, etc.

4. Publishing your web page to the Internet (for free!)

5. Tips and Tutorials

1. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

Get more help?

	•	Read this F.A.Q.
	•	Click Index button above to search for a word
	•	If you don’t find the word in Index then Click Find button above to make a more exhaustive search for a word
	•	Click Help button when you see it in COOL Page
	•	Click [image] at the top of COOL Page dialog boxes, and then click the item you want information about
	•	Read the Tooltip and Status Bar message while mouse is paused over any item in COOL Page
	•	Press F1 key while mouse is paused over any item in COOL Page

Do I have most recent version?

	Before contacting 3Dize about any problem, make sure you have the latest version of COOL Page.  People who contact us and are using an old version will NOT receive a reply from 3Dize.  We go thru great effort to constantly improve COOL Page so that common problems are resolved.  Please take the time to upgrade if you don’t have the latest release. You can choose Check For Upgrades in the Help menu, or go here to check for and download the latest version: http://www.3Dize.com/try.html If you need the latest version and you are a registered user, you may go here now, or any time in the future, to download a new copy of the latest version for FREE: http://www.3Dize.com/upgrade.html

Background of COOL Page leaves “garbage” on the screen?

	Apparently this is a very rare problem, but we put it at top of this section to draw attention just in case.  If you don’t observe this problem, then this doesn’t apply to you.  Some recent Display Adapters (video cards) have hardware acceleration which does not correctly emulate the Windows standard.  You can fix the problem immediately by doing the following:
	•	Click here and the Settings tab of the Display window will pop up.  Then click the Advanced button.  The Advanced window will pop up.  Then click the Performance tab and slide the slider all the way to the left, to value of None.
	If the above corrects the problem, then please repeat the steps above, except try increasing the value of slider by one step to the right on each try.  Keep the value that gives you the best Performance and image quality in COOL Page. We are investigating this problem, and although we are nearly certain the problem is in the Display Adapter and/or the drivers for the Display Adapter, there may be something we can change in the programming of COOL Page to work around the problem.  So far the only Display Adapter that has been reported with this problem is the ATI Rage 128 xpert which indicates strongly that the problem is with that video card or it’s drivers.  So if (and only if) you have this problem, we please ask that you email to us the following information to help in our investigation:
	•	Click here and the Device Manager tab of the System window will pop up.  Then double-click the Display adapters folder (or single click the + sign to it’s left side).  This will expand the folder and show you a list of your Display Adapters.  Please double-click the name(s) under Display adapter folder and then email to us all of the information from all of the tabs of the window that pops up.  This will help us identify your display adapter, it’s hardware version, and the version of the drivers being used.
	•	Click here and the General tab of the System window will pop up.  Please email to us the version of Windows you are using (e.g. 95, 98, or NT) and the revision number below that (e.g. 4.xx.xxxx).
	Please note that the above fix uses the Windows emulation instead of the hardware acceleration of the problemmatic video card.  This shows that the video card is not giving the same results as the reference standard Windows emulation.  This suggests strongly that the mistake is in the video card or the drivers for the video card.  There may be something we can change in a future version of COOL Page to work around the mistake in the video card.  We will continue to investigate this problem.

COOL Page ad?

	All users have our permission to display web pages that contain the COOL Page advertizement button.  We appreciate it very much.  If you have purchased COOL Page then you are not required to display the ad button. If you don’t want to purchase COOL Page, we are very happy if you display our ad.  By advertizing us, you are supporting the continued improvement of COOL Page.  Remember, you can move the COOL Page ad button any where you want on the page, even way past the bottom or right side of the page.

Produce faster loading web pages?

	•	Use less or smaller images
	•	Break long pages into several pages
	•	Use the same images on more than one of your pages so the browser doesn’t have to load new images for each page the user visits on your web site.  This is a feature of browsers called caching, where previously visited images are stored on your hard disk rather than reloaded from the Host of your web site.
	•	Use Snap to Grid and try to align the top, left corners of objects on same rows and columns when ever possible.  This produces more efficient HTML when the page is published. Do not sacrifice your design for this however as images are often a much bigger factor.
	•	Optimize the images on your page using an image optimizing program.  For photos, we recommend JPEG Optimizer which is featured on the 3Dize web site.  For GIF images, there are many choices on the web including the free online GIFCruncher.
	•	Some HTML Objects can make the page very slow.  HTML Object is a general programming tool and we do not control what you put in it.  If you use HTML Object, make sure you observe the speed changes to your page.
	•	Read carefully the help for New Frame Set to place common elements in a frame, so as to eliminate reloading of those elements for sub-pages of your web site.  By unchecking Border for both adjacent frames, you can hide the border between frames.  Although browser will cache frequently used images, this is more general cache of a portion of the page (a frame of it).
	•	Find a faster Host to Publish your web pages to.  We use http://www.Pair.com and we recommend them highly.  They are the most reliable and fastest Host we’ve ever found.  They have a basic account for $6 per month.  Unlike with the free Hosts, at Pair.com they won’t put advertising on your web pages.  Also Pair.com gives an 8% discount for 12 months prepayment.  Note, we do not make any $ if you sign up with Pair.com.  We just recommend them because we feel like it.  But do please tell Pair, that we referred you to them, as it helps them realize how important COOL Page is.

Some of my images don’t appear when I Published it and view it on internet?

	If Publish told you it completed successfully, then the images are properly published and some people can probably see them.  The problem is that when the internet is real slow, the page may time-out and some images may not transfer completely or at all.  This is not a problem with COOL Page or the way it was Published.  The problem is caused by slowness in either your connection to the internet or slowness of the Host.  In particular, some of the free Hosts can go thru periods where they are overloaded and very slow. Read our tips in the previous section for optimizing your web pages for speed.

Update page(s) already Published?

	Open... the COOL Page file, edit it, then Publish it again.

Publish all the pages for my site?

	Open... each COOL Page file, Publish it, and Close the file.  Do this for each file and then once all the files are Published go test your web site on the Internet.

Add Scroll Bars to a web page?

	•	Scroll Bars appear automatically.  Simply drag any object beyond the bottom and/or right borders of the window in Cool Page
	•	Dragging beyond the border of the window can be tedious if the border is close to the edge of the screen.  If you wish to increase the range of the Scroll Bars faster, use Zoom Out in the Window menu.
	•	For an alternate method, see New Frame Set in the File menu to make scrolling regions called frames

Link some text or an image to another web page on MY web site?

	•	Click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	Click the [image] Browse... button on the toolbar.  And choose a COOL Page file to link to.
Link some text or an image to another web page on someone else’s web site?

	•	Have both COOL Page and your Internet browser running
	•	View the other person’s web page in your Internet browser
	•	Highlight all the text in the Address: line of your Internet browser
	•	Press Ctrl-C on keyboard to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard
	•	Return to COOL Page.  Click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	Click once in the [image] Link box on toolbar to place the text cursor (blinking vertical line) inside box
	•	Press Ctrl-V on keyboard to paste the text from the clipboard into that Link box

Link some text or an image near top of page to an item farther down the SAME page?

	•	Select the item farther down the SAME page.  To do this, click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	Click once in the [image] Anchor box on toolbar to place the text cursor (blinking vertical line) inside box
	•	Type a unique name in that Anchor box.  For example type: location1
	•	Select the item near the top of the SAME page.  To do this, click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	Click once in the [image] Link box on toolbar to place the text cursor (blinking vertical line) inside box
	•	Type the same name from step above in this Link box, except prepend it with # sign.  For example type: #location1 Don’t forget the # above
	Note: this same method will work for linking any location on the page with any other location on the page.  It is not limited to things down the page.  You can link from bottom of page to top of page, right to left, left to right, etc.  Have fun!
Link some text or an image so that visitor can send me EMAIL?

	•	Click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	Click once in the [image] Link box on toolbar to place the text cursor (blinking vertical line) inside box
	•	Type mailto:yourname@youraddress.com  in that Link box, except type your email address instead of yourname@youraddress.com
Link some text or an image to a FILE for visitor to download, view, or play?

	•	Click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	Click the [image] Browse... button on the toolbar.  A Windows File dialog box will appear and you should change the Files of type and choose a non-COOL Page file to link to.
How to a make Link open in another window, when clicked by visitor in the browser?

	•	Select the image or entire text which is already linked: Click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	•	On the toolbar, change the [image]  Window to new

Add a new page to my web site?

	Click New.  Then click Save As... to give page a unique name. Note: the name index will give you the shortest address for your web page.  See help on Publish for how to determine the address of the web page.

Rules for dragging/editing items on web page?

	No two items on the page can overlap, except that any item may be placed within a Box or Line box if the box is big enough. When you draw or drop a new item on the page, you must do it on the page background.  After it exists on page background, you may move it anywhere as long is doesn't overlap another element.  Except you can move it completely inside a Box or Line box that is large enough. The reason for the rules on non-overlap is that Cool Page is compatible with all browsers, even back to Netscape2 and IE3.  We could support some cases of overlap in the future and still be backwards compatible with all browsers, but there are some tradeoffs on page size and other issues...you may see some improvements in this area in future version. Now, if you are trying to drag to what appears to be an empty region of page and it is still bouncing back.  It is because there are invisible elements there on the page.  Cool Page tries to detect and delete these invisible elements, but it can't know all cases.  Some examples of are: Text Box with only space characters, images that are blank, etc.  Try checking on Text Borders in View menu so you can see the outline of all of them.  We are aware of this problem and do plan some way of dealing with this better (such as making all elements glow as you drag over them).

Designing for different browser window sizes, how to center page?

	•	Either design for the most common size you expect.
	•	Or click Page... in Edit menu to choose your preferred horizontal alignment for whole page.  For example you can center the whole page in the browser window.  In this case, when designing the page in COOL Page, make sure you move the left-most elements of the page to the left edge of the editing window in COOL Page.  Then when you Preview or Publish, the page will appear horizontally center or right-aligned in the browser.

Submit to search engines and Meta tags?

	The Meta tags can be set in Page... in Edit menu.  After Publishing, COOL Page will show a button which will help you submit the published page to the major search engines.

Preview whole site and links?

	You can NOT use Preview... to do this, because Preview only previews one page at a time.  Either Publish and test your site on the Internet.  Or, Export... all you pages to the same folder and then open the main page from that folder in your browser.

Import text?

	Select the text in other program, select Copy from Edit menu in other program, select Paste from Edit menu in Cool Page.  Or, drag+drop a text file (.txt) into a web page.  Or, use Import....
How to a make a menu of Links across the top or left, which when clicked open pages on the bottom or right?

	•	Please see New Frame Set

Why is my counter not working correctly?

	•	Make sure you have dragged one of the counters from the Counter section of the Objects window.  And make sure you signed up for the counter and entered the id from the signup page as instructed by Cool Page.
	•	Else if you have used HTML Object in Insert menu to add the counter, make sure you have copied all of the correct HTML from the counter signup page.  If you still have problems, contact the site where you got the counter for more help.

Remove web page from the internet previously published with cool page?

	Make a blank web page with the same name and Publish it.   This will overwrite the original page. If you insist on removing it completely (i.e. a blank page is not good enough) use an FTP client to log on to the FTP site where you published to and remove the files.  If you are not sure which files to remove, publish the original Cool Page file again to get a list of files published.  However, if any of your remaining web pages share files, be careful not to remove the shared files.  For FTP clients, search for ftp at http://www.DownloadFAST.com.

Colors do not match?

	If you notice colors don’t look the same in COOL Page as in your browser, please click here to set [image] to 32-bit color. If you must run 256 colors, then please click here to read how to optimally configure COOL Page for 256 colors.

How to add banner ads?

	As with any HTML you want to add to your web page, simple copy the HTML for the ad banner to the Windows clipboard then choose Paste HTML in Edit menu of Cool Page. Make sure you resize the "HTML" object on the web page to be the same size as (or larger than) the banner will be.  If you don't make it big enough, it will mess up the alignment of the page in the browser.

Alignment of items is messed up when viewed in the browser?

	If you have any “HTML” objects on the web page, make sure you resize the "HTML" object on the web page to be the same size as (or larger than) what is displayed by the HTML when viewed in the browser.  If you don't make it big enough, it will mess up the alignment of the page in the browser

How do I send my Cool Page web page in an email?

	•	View the web page in Internet Explorer and choose Send -> Page By Email from File menu in Internet Explorer.  Or use the following method.  The following method may be compatible with more receiving email clients.
	•	Use Export... in the File menu
	•	Write down or don't close the window which lists the files that were exported
	•	Create a New Message in your email program and enter the following sentence in the email, "Please click the index.html link below to view the web page for this email".  Note this assumes that index.html was the exported file.  Replace index.html with the name of the exported file that ends with .html or .htm.  There will be two such files, so mention the one that does not contain _frame
	•	Attach ALL the files that were exported by Cool Page to the New Message in your email program
	•	Send the email
	•	Make sure you are using a 32-bit email program which can handle long filenames.  Else make sure all the attached files are 8.3 format (8 letters.3 letters)
	•	When the person receives your email, they will follow your instruction to click the link to the attached file.  If they have a modern email program and web browser, and if they click the correct file, the web page will open in the browser and look exactly as it did when you designed it in Cool Page
	•	There are ways to make the web page appear in the email itself, so that the recipient doesn't have to click to launch the attached file in browser, such as using Microsoft Outlook’s Stationary feature.  However, each type of receiving email program requires a different method, and so are not appropriate as a general method we can recommend

Global view of web page while simultaneously editing in close-up?

	•	Have the web page open and then choose New from the Window menu, not the File menu.
	•	Then choose Zoom Out from the Window menu.  Thus you will have two windows open for the same web page, one a close up view and the other a zoomed out global view.

2.  Intro: saving, publishing, linking, and multi-page sites:

Saving and Publishing:

Subsequent sections will introduce you to using the COOL Page to visually design your web page.  But, first it is important to understand how the process of making web sites with COOL Page works.

Before your web page can be seen by others surfing the Internet, your web page files must be placed on a special kind of remote computer called a server.  And they must be placed on the server computer in the HTML format (file name ending with .html).  This process is called [image] Publishing, and the actual movement of files from your computer to a server computer is called uploading.

The server computer may reside any where in the world.  You do not pay long distance charges to [image] Publish your web pages to it because the web page is uploaded from your computer, thru you modem, thru your local ISP (Internet Service Provider) connection, and over the Internet to the server computer.  As you will read below in section 3. Publishing, you may choose to [image] Publish to any server computer in the world, including the FREE server computers such as FortuneCity.com, Xoom.com, Tripod.com, Geocities.com, etc., or even your local ISP’s server computer.

COOL Page opens and saves your web page in COOL Page format [image] (.cpg). To edit your web pages, you must remember to save them in COOL Page format [image] (.cpg)! COOL Page format is rich enough to hold unlimited undo and other information about your web page; whereas, HTML format is not able to retain all this information.  Thus, it is important you [image] save your web pages in Cool Page format [image] (.cpg).

However, servers and web browsers don’t understand COOL Page format [image] (.cpg).  So, when [image] Publishing your web page to a server computer COOL Page uploads a version of your web page that is converted to HTML format (.html).  Thus the uploaded file name ends with .html instead of .cpg.

Thus, you will have a copy of your web page on your computer in COOL Page format [image] (.cpg) and a copy on the server computer in HTML format (.html).  Whenever you wish to edit the web page, you open the COOL Page format [image] (.cpg) version on your computer and then use [image] Publish to upload a new HTML (.html) version to the server computer.

Linking and multi-page sites:

Creating multiple pages for your web site is as easy as making new web pages and [image] Publishing each of them from COOL Page.

One of the most important features of Internet browsers (of HTML format actually) is the ability to link an item (text, images, etc.) on source web page to other destination web pages.  This means that when the source web page is viewed in an Internet browser, and a linked item on the source web page is clicked, the destination web page will appear.

Within COOL Page, links are created by first selecting an item (text, image, animation, etc) on the source page.  Then typing the address (URL) of the destination web page in the toolbar [image] Link box.  There are some shortcuts that can be used if you don’t know what to type.  First, select an item on the source web page within COOL Page, then do the following:

To link to a destination COOL Page web page that you already or will Publish to the same server computer, click the toolbar [image] Browse... button and select the destination web page in COOL Page format [image] (.cpg).  This will automatically type appropriate address (URL) in the [image] Link box.

To link to an external web page (not on your web site) that is on the Internet already, do the following:

a. Have both COOL Page and your Internet browser running

b. View the external web page in your Internet browser

c. Highlight all the text in the Address: line of your Internet browser

d. Press Ctrl-C on keyboard to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard

e. Select an item on your source web page within Cool Page

f. Click once in the toolbar [image] Link box to place the cursor there

g. Press Ctrl-V on keyboard to paste the text from the clipboard into the [image] Link box

Note: you must use [image] Publish to test links.  Links can not be tested with [image] Preview, or within COOL Page.  It is NOT necessary to [image] Publish before you create links as described above.  But, it is necessary to [image] Publish all pages before you test links.

Email.  To specify a link that will allow people to send you email.  Select an item (image, text, etc) on your source web page within COOL Page.  Then type mailto:yourname@youraddress.com  in the [image] Link box, except type your email address instead of yourname@youraddress.com.

After you’ve mastered all of the above section 1, see also Link Toolbar for more technical info on linking, and on how to create links that scroll the web page, using [image] Anchors.

3.  Editing text:

a. Click twice In order to edit a text box, first you have to draw one (see [image] Text Box) and then you have to click it twice.  The 1st time you click a text box, you are merely selecting it for resizing and movement.  The 2nd time you click it, it will be activated for typing.

To create a new text box faster, [image] Import some text, drag+drop a text file (.txt) onto a COOL Page web page, or [image] Paste some text into a COOL Page web page.

4. Publishing:

a. Sign up first.  Before you can use the [image] Publish feature, you must be signed up with a host Internet site to use their server computer.  There are FREE hosts available and signing up often takes only a few minutes.  See [image] Publish for step-by-step instructions for signing up with FREE hosts.

Also, most ISPs (Internet Service Providers-- the company who provides your Internet connection) provide you with a host account to use their server computer.  However, you are not required to use your local ISP’s server computer.  Feel free to sign up for and [image] Publish to a FREE host, especially if your ISP proves troublesome or slow.

Remember, as stated in section 1. Intro... above, no long distance charges are incurred when [image] Publishing to any server computer in the world-- you still continue to connect thru your local ISP.  See [image] Publish for more info.

b. Turn on and connect your modem.  Make sure your computer is connected to the Internet, usually via a modem and telephone line thru your local ISP.

5. Tips and Tutorials:

a. Resize by drag on edge and corners.  To resize an item on the web page, simply press and drag the mouse on the edge or corner of the item.

b. Drag past bottom or right of page window to make web page longer or wider.  Drag an object or text box past the edge of the window to expand the page.

c. Use colored boxes for backgrounds and tables. Using the [image] Box or Line feature, you can draw colored boxes (rectangles) on the web page.  Then you can drag text, images, and other colored boxes into an existing colored box.  Key things to remember are:

	•	always first create your objects on the background of the web page and then drag the object into the colored box
	•	the size of the colored box being dragged to, must be larger than the object being dragged into it

Colored boxes can also be used to make tables (columns and rows of data).  See the Tutorials mentioned below for example COOL Page web pages that show the varied use of [image] Box or Line feature.

d. Add a counter to your web page.  Simply drag a counter of your choice from the Counter tab in the [image] Objects window to your web page, then following the instructions that pop up.

e. Add a guestbook to your web page.  See the Link To folder of Objects window for drag+drop guest books.

f. Insert HTML object.  As you become proficient with COOL Page, you may wish to add custom features such as banners, music, counters, Java™, scrolling text, etc..  To do this requires inserting some text called “HTML”.  This text will usually be given to you by the web site providing the custom feature.

Just choose “HTML Object” fromt the Insert menu.  Then enter the HTML in the box that pops up.

g. Image Mapping.  To display an image with each portion having a different link, first break the image into several images using image editing program such as PaintShop Pro™.  Then [image] Import each of the images and drag them in COOL Page to reassemble what will appear to the viewer to be a single image.  The Interface group in [image] Objects window in an example of this.  You can drag each of the parts to your web page to reassemble a custom interface of your choosing.

Make sure Snap-to Grid in View menu is unchecked, so that images can be dragged to touch each other.  Use [image] Zoom in Window menu to temporarily magnify the web page for easier manipulation of thin lines.  See the minature example of a completed interface in the Interface group.

h. Tutorials.  Three tutorials can be accessed from the Help menu.  These open example web pages that were created with COOL Page.  Use Undo and Redo from the Edit menu to see how the example web pages were created.

For more tutorials, go to 3Dize’s web site, http://www.3Dize.com/, and at the bottom of each page is a link to download the page in COOL Page (.cpg) format.  You can double-click the downloaded file to uncompress it.  Then load the .cpg file (from set of uncompressed files) into COOL Page and study the examples to see how to do all the cool things on our web site.

Note: uncompressing requires WinZip (or equivalent unzip program) which is freely downloadable from http://www.download.com.

We hope you enjoy COOL Page and find it to be useful and a good value.

-3Dize team


Changes in Each Version of Cool Page

The following are the lists of changes in each version of COOL Page.  Note, the lists of changes before version 1.8 are no longer available.

	•	MST denotes changes only available in Webmaster version of COOL Page
	•	PRO denotes changes only available in Pro and Webmaster version of COOL Page
	•	STD denotes changes only available in Standard and Pro and Webmaster versions of COOL Page
	•	FREE denotes changes only available in Free version of COOL Page
	•	All other changes are available in all versions of COOL Page

Version 2.6

132. Fixed the Host = aol.com choice in Publish so it works with AOL version 6.  It is unknown whether this will continue to work with version 5 and earlier of AOL.  AOL changed the configuration, so we choose to support the latest version.  Also apparently AOL now provides up to 14 screen names with each account and you can publish a web site to each of these by entering the screen name in the Name field.

131. When one (or more) object(s) of a single group are selected, then Group is checked, and Cut, Copy, and Delete in Edit menu will operate on all objects in the group.

130. Added Group to Edit menu, which locks the positions of multiple selected objects relative to each other.  When moving (i.e. dragging) any object which is grouped, then all objects in the group will move as well.

129. Multiple objects on the page may be selected simultaneously by holding down the Shift or Control (Ctrl) key while clicking on the objects.

128. Added Invisible Object Borders to the View menu.  Check this on to locate all the Invisible Objects on the web page.

127. When the Netscape 4 specific version (”_nn4”) of web page is viewed in a non-Netscape 4 browser, then the non-Netscape version of web page is now loaded.  This automatically corrects problems seen when attempting to view the Netscape 4 version of web page in a non-Netscape 4 browser.  The converse was always true before, so this fix makes it automatically bi-directional.  Re-Publish all web pages to apply this fix to existing web pages.

126. Fixed the Events Name so that Events may be renamed reliably.

STD 125. Added 27 more Applets to the Objects window for a total of 54 Applets.

124. Added 27 Applets to the Objects window.

123. Fixed ending range as indicated in rightmost bottom tab of objects displayed in the Objects window.  Before it would round up the next multiple of Number of thumbnails per window Preferences setting.  This insures that users know the correct number of objects currently dislayed in Objects window.

122. Fixed a bug that caused objects to be placed offset from the drop position, when window was zoomed or dragging from outside of COOL Page.

121. Added Extend COOL Page capabilities, which allow any programmer to make addon features and products for COOL Page.  Think of this new capability as analgous to PhotoShop Plugins.  We expect a wide range of “plugins” COOL Page to appear in the coming months.

120. Drastically improved the installation program for COOL Page.  The installer no longer allows the overwriting of an existing installation, and forces an unstall first instead.  This insures clean installs and uninstalls.  The installer no longer gives errors messages about files not found or copied.  The unstaller no longer suffers a long delay when many objects have been added to the Objects folder (Objects window).  The installer automatically corrects a problem with ATI video cards which causes background COOL Page to appear garbled.  The “My Computer” folder in Objects window is no longer disappearing on Windows 98 2nd Edition, as installer is smart to remove the System folder attribute that sneaky Windows silently sets on it.  The installer now detects the incomplete download case and advises user to download again.

PRO 119. Improved the documentation of, and added popup messages in the program for, Invisible Object to make it clear that it can be used to achieve rectangular “image mapping”, Events, Alternate Text (and other benefits of images) on any region of the web page or object.  And to enable the menu choice in all editions, and give a message instead to make clear that which editions of COOL Page support it.

118. Fixed Play, Stop, and Pause Actions when Sound file name contains a hyphen -.

Version 2.5 June 30, 2000 Release

117. Fixed so that “Unsupported operation” message no longer occurs when Copying an object that has Events with a Target Object.

116. Fixed a problem where Layer showed a huge number when page was previously edited with Compatible Browsers set to “version 3.0” for object which was a child of a Box or Line.  Here follows a long discussion of the case:  Problem with object Layer? First, make sure you are not trying to Layer a restricted object such as the Cool Page Button ad or the Web Search. These are always forced to the top Layer. If an object does not seem to respond correctly to Layer, or if the allowed Layer number range for it seems too small, the reason is probably the following. Cool Page version 2.5 and later has a new setting in HTML section of Preferences (Edit menu) named Compatible Browsers. When Compatible Browsers is set to "version 3.0" and an object is dragged inside of a Box or Line object, then it will become a child of that Box or Line. In other words, moving the Box or Line will move it's children along with it. Thus the child object can only be Layered with it's parent Box or Line. However, when this same page is then edited with Compatible Browsers set to "version 4.0", then then object can be dragged outside of it's parent Box or Line, but Cool Page does not remove it from it's parent Box or Line. Thus the child object is still behaving like it is a child of Box or Line (in terms of Layer) while is no longer overlapping that Box or Line. There are 3 solutions. The simplest answer is never edit pages in different Compatible Browser settings. For people who must (which includes all users of Cool Page 2.1 and earlier which was equivalent of "version 3.0" setting), simply select the child object, choose Copy and Paste from Edit menu. Delete the original child object. This will make a copy of the child object whose parent is the whole page, instead of the Box or Line. An alternative is temporarily change Compatible Browsers to "version 3.0" and drag the child outside of it's parent Box, then switch back to "version 4.0" setting.  Moving Box also moves object? Cool Page version 2.5 and later has a new setting in HTML section of Preferences (Edit menu) named Compatible Browsers. When Compatible Browsers is set to "version 3.0"and an object is dragged inside of a Box or Line object, then it will become a child of that Box or Line. In other words, moving the Box or Line will correctly move it's children along with it. However, when Compatible Browsers is then set to "version 4.0" it is possible for such a child object to be dragged outside it's parent Box, yet still be moved with it's parent. See previous answer for more details and a solution.  Unable to resize Box? See previous 2 answers. When a Box or Line has a child object that has been dragged outside of it's borders, then the Box will resist resizing. The solution is to remove child objects as described in previous 2 answers.

115. Fixed a serious problem which first appeared in version 2.5, which caused all Links to COOL Page file names that contained spaces created with previous versions of COOL Page to not work.  On Preview, users will be prompted to reBrowse for these files.  Although inconvenient, this fix was going to be necessary to support better site management in the future any way.

114. Fixed a problem which first appeared in version 2.5, wherein Preview a web page with Compatible Browsers set to version 3.0 would cause an error message about not able to find default browser.

113. Publishing no longer complains about not being able to copy a file.  This is a rare bug that has been around since version 1.0, which only happened when the source file had read-only, archive, or system attributes set.  These attributes are no longer propogated to the temporary destination file used for Publish and Preview.  This also allows these temporary files to be properly deleted, so that Windows/Temp folder is not filled up with unneeded files.

Version 2.5

PRO 112. Added 150 Sounds to Pro version of COOL Page.

111.  Replaced the “Warn about Preview limitations” message seen on Preview.  Instead clicking any Link on page, when page is viewed in browser with Preview, will show an equivalent popup warning.  Thus message is only seen when necessary and context more obvious.  This change also allows Previewing of pages containing Events in non-Webmaster versions of COOL Page, because the Previewed page with popup warnings on links is not a useful way to get around buying Webmaster to do Events.  Webmaster is required to Publish or Export pages containing Events.

110. The new default setting of “Version 4.0 or later” for Compatible Browsers sets fonts exactly (by pixels) so that fonts always appear exactly as intended irregardless of the viewer’s font settings.

PRO 109. Added Invisible Object to Insert menu.

MST 108. Added Events section to Object properties for images.  This enables dynamic web pages of infinite variety.  Select any image, then Object from Edit menu and locate the Events tab therein. COOL Page now has cross-browser DHTML, CSS, HTML4, and DOM2 capabilities that rival industry leaders such as Dreamweaver(tm).  However, COOL Page‘s method requires no programming skill.  Simply visually select the event Type, Action, Object, etc. within Events section.  Using this new feature one can accomplish nearly any imagineable dynamic action on the page such as (but certainly not limited to) changing images on mouse over, playing sounds on mouse over or on click, moving objects on the page, showing expanding menus on mouse over, etc..  Now you can make web pages that put the pros to shame!  In fact, even for pros (programmers) using COOL Page is more reliable and implementation-time-efficient than programming by hand, because we’ve already worked out the various browser issues that drive webmasters nuts.

FREE 107. Undoing change #80 below, we restored the popup ads on links after 30 days if free version not purchased.  The popup ads are now much more explanatory and they do not interfere with the proper operation of the web site.  If you are using the free version and you don’t like our popup ads on your web page, then simply buy COOL Page Standard (or higher) and re-Publish.

106. Added Name, Layer, Horizontal and Vertical positioning to Object properties.

105. COOL Page now automatically fixes errors in the HTML text of HTML Objects where the local files are referenced in sub-directories in the HTML text.  This automatically corrects the most common user error that used to hinder successful implementation of Java applets, etc using HTML Object.

104. Added HTML section to Preferences.  This controls the HTML produced on Preview, Publish, and Export.

103. Fixed the majority of cases where animations flicker in Netscape.  There is a bug in Netscape where animations will flicker if inside an invisible full page frame set.  This will never happen when using the new HTML4 CSSP layout mentioned in item #96 below.  And when choosing to use the older HTML3 TP (to gain compatibility with version 3 browsers), the only case that is still using an invisible full page frame set, is where page is both Top and Left aligned.  In other words, we used to always put the page in an invisible full page frame set (“_frame.html”), and now we only do it in one rare case.  The reason for using the invisible full page frame set is to insure that foreground objects of the page are aligned exactly with background in Netscape 3.  Netscape 3 does not recognize the other ways to set margins of a page.  If you don’t care about exact alignment with background (i.e. you can tolerate larger left and top margin), you have flickering animations problem, and you need Netscape 3 compatibility, just link to the sub-frame page (e.g. instead of “page.html” link to “page_frame.html” contingent on Page Type).

As a side effect of no longer putting the page in an invisible frame set, links to anchors within a page (e.g. page2.html#anchorname) should now work.  Or if you had figured out to make then point to frame (e.g. page2_frame.html#anchorname), then you will need to change them to first form above, except in single case mentioned in previous paragraph where invisible frame set is still used.

102. Added Layer for moving the selected object in front or behind any other objects that intersect it.  Unlike most other products which supported layered objects (e.g. Homestead), COOL Page is unique in that it only rotates between layers (objects) that intersect the selected object, and it is only enabled if there are any such intersecting objects.  This smart Layer feature makes it very intuitive to control layering.

101. Cut, Copy, and Delete are no longer erroneously enabled when Text Box is in typing mode and these actions would cause nothing to happen, such as when no text is highlighted or there is no text following the cursor.

100. Reorganized all Toolbars into more logical groups, added better separation between groups, moved the default docking position of File Toolbar to left side, renamed Main to Object Toolbar, and added the History Toolbar and Text Toolbar.

99. Floating the Advanced Toolbar now works, as well as dragging and docking the it to top or bottom of COOL Page window.

98. Dragging to move or resize a Text Box no longer turns on typing mode on 2nd drag.  This allows multiple consecutive moves a of Text Box, and keeps the sizer controls alive on multiple consecutive resizes.

97. Improves the default placement after drop of drag+drop multiple objects to Cool Page web page, such that objects are laid out in most cases row-by-row with rows not to exceed right side of page.

96. Added Compatible Browsers setting to Publish dialog.  This exposes the new state-of-the-art HTML4 CSSP (Cascading Style Sheets Positioning) HTML output for COOL Page, which produces much faster loading pages, which adds ability to overlap objects in COOL Page web pages, and eliminates “domino effect” mismatch in layout.  The old style HTML3 TP (Tables Positioning) output of version 2.1 and earlier is still available as well as choice in Compatible Browsers setting.  The old style HTML3 TP (Tables Positioning) output has also been optimized 20% and reduced chance of “domino effect” layout mismatch by extending table cells to row height.

95. Added earthlink.net to list of preset Hosts in the Publish dialog.

94. Radically improved Objects window.  Imagine Windows Explorer (tm) on steriods.  Now you can use COOL Page to store all your objects and clip art for all your other programs!  Full drag-n-drop from Objects window to other programs and to Objects window from other programs.  Faster thumbnail generation, and smarter thumbnail cache means drastically less memory and resource usage to end crashes in Windows due to resource overusage when using Objects window.  Other fixes.  A radically new hierarchally, collapseable folder view (similar to left side of Windows Explorer (tm)) along left side allows for any imagineable grouping of images to display thumbnails for in right area.  Number of thumbnails per window is now a Preferences setting and a new tab list at bottom for quick access to ranges of images in current selected grouping, e.g. "1-39", "40-79", etc.  Please try it to see it to how much it can increase your productivity and organization of your imagery and other file types, not just for COOL Page but for all your programs.

93. Added setting for Number of images displayed in Objects window simultaneously, with the rest accessible with bottom tabs of Objects window.  The bottom tabs are a new feature of Objects window, which solve the problem of previewing a selection of hundreds or thousands of objects.

92. Added vertical alignment of the Page in Edit menu.

91. Fixed so useless border is not shown on right side of (and to right of any vertical scroll bar) non-Frame Set page.  Technically speaking, the invisible parent frame set is now set to have no borders.  This will also remove the grey line some people see at the border in their bordless Frame Set.

90. Added more explanation to the “Where is {filename}?” operation.  This will remove confusion many customers had in opening COOL Page files in a new version of COOL Page, in sharing COOL Page files with others, or moving them to another computer.

89. Fixes a bug in #86 below, so that optimized images will have the same file name each time the page is Published or Exported.  Also propogates the modification date from the source image, so that FTP upload to Host (in future via Publish or currently via external FTP client using Export) can be optimized to not upload files which haven’t changed.

Version 2.1

88. No longer complains about “t.gif” missing on Preview of empty web page.

87. Added more Hosts to the Publish dialog.  Cool Page is a new special offer paid hosting for those who want ad-free hosting and their own .com domain name.

86.  Much improved results for most resized images when web page is viewed in browser.  This improvement only applies to images resized smaller (horizontally and/or vertically) and to JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, and .jfi) images at this time.  It will be improved to include all images types in near future.  It is silly to output optimized images for those resized larger, as this would just drastically slow down the web page.  This improvement is really to work around a bug in the currently popular browsers, because those browsers have really poor quality resize algorithms.  Now COOL Page outputs optimally resized images so browsers don't have to resize them.  To take advantage of this improvement, simply re-Publish your existing web pages.

85. Upper case versions of “mailto:” are now recognized on the Link toolbar, when using the Link so visitor can send you email in Wizard in Help menu, or Email in Link To folder in Objects window.

PRO 84. For images, the browser Status bar (text at bottom of browser) is set to the Alternate Text for the image.  If you had previously set the Alternate Text for your images, simply re-Publish your web pages to add this feature.  Note, the Status bar text will only appear in 4.0+ browers, although the page will still work fine on earlier browsers.

83. Added an optional Web Search in Control folder of Objects window.  This provides web search results from multiple search engines.  In the near future, this may be improved to provide search for your web site!  This improvement will happen automatically without your intervention, so it is a good idea to put the Search box on your web site.  This Search box is forced on all web pages edited with the Free version of COOL Page.

82. Added Link To folder to Objects window, which duplicates the linking choices in Wizard in Help menu, and adds new guest book choices.

81. Moved the contents of the Interface folder to the Button folder in Objects window, and deleted the Interface folder.

FREE 80. Removed the popup ads on links, except for the COOL Page ad button.  Just re-Publish to remove popups from web pages.

79. Improved the Publish dialog organization and error-checking.  Note, this is not an improvement in FTP upload (i.e. connection to Host server that follows Publish Page) reliability and error checking.  FTP improvements are coming soon as well.

STD 78. Added support for international character set fonts.  This was tested well with Greek fonts and should work with any True Type font installed in system, with exception being that Chinese and Japanese fonts may be limited to first 256 characters in font.

77. Improved the New Frame Set help section.

Version 2.0 Nov. 02, 1999 release

76. Fixed two crash bugs when using Browse... in Edit menu Frame Set.

75. Made “other” fonts work on Windows 95.

Version 2.0

74. Displays a default image for Sounds in the Objects window, instead of the name of the sound only.

73. Fixed where Linking to a non- COOL Page file using Browse... did not work if selected (highlighted) text was at start of first line in a Text Box.

72. Browse... on Link toolbar now sets Links to COOL Page web pages differently, e.g. it delays conversion to the .html file name.  This facilitates a couple of improvements.  First, the proper Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml) setting is used at Preview, Publish, Export time.  Second, it means that site management will be possible in a future version because there is a record of which COOL Page web page is linked.

71. Links that begin with  www.  are are forced to begin with  http://www.  because otherwise such Links do not work correctly.  This is because browsers interpret such as relative urls when used in a Links versus when used on the Address (Location) line of browser.

70. Some common keyboard short cuts are now available in Text Box.  See in Text Box for a list.  More will be added in the future.

69. Multiple spaces now display as you would expect in a word processor.  Before COOL Page used to hide the multiple spaces.  Now all the formerly hidden multiples spaces will appear.  Please edit your Text Boxes made with earlier versions of COOL Page to remove any undesired multiple spaces.  Also, spaces are now allowed at the beginning of a line (if the previous line ends with a hard line break, e.g. Enter key).

68. Fixed the ability to resize images at upper, right and lower, left corners.  It always worked for upper, left and lower, right corners.  Now it works correctly for all 4 corners.

67. My Computer tab has been added to the Objects window.  On installation, many of the images already pre-existing on your computer are now copied to My Computer.  For most people, this will add 1000s of images to Objects window for free.  Many people may not have realized they can use these images in COOL Page.  This will make it clear they can.

66. Sub-folders (to any nested level) are now allowed in the folders that represent the tabs of the Objects window.  The files contained in these sub-folders are flattened into the tab of the Objects window that corresponds to the parent folder.

65. A bug which caused reopened pages to crash has been fixed.  Specifically this only occurred with pages that had been previously saved from COOL Page with Save undo set to off in Preferences.  Several people had reported this bug over the months, but thanks to Anthony C Turrisi for providing a COOL Page (.cpg) file and set of repeatable steps that enabled us to track it down.

64. Export defaults to the Page Type in Publish.  As before (see #42), changing the Save as type in Export sets the Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml) in Publish.

63. The free version of COOL Page now times out at 90 days, instead of 30.  It can be downloaded again after 90 days to get 90 days more evaluation time.  This can be repeated forever, so in effect it is now a freeware version.  The free version can no longer be unlocked to a full-version.  This was causing too much confusion and the (unlocked) full version was vulnerable to piracy.  To conteract this increased “freeness”, we have added more advertising to the free version.  For example, clicking on the background or any non-linked image Published with the free version will popup a COOL Page advertisement.  We hope this will lead to greater popularity for COOL Page, greater advertisement, greater sales, and thus faster improvements for COOL Page.

PRO 62. Alternative text will appear while images are loading in the browser.  Also for version 4 (or later) browsers, this text will popup when mouse is hovered over image.

61. Display of file names in dialogs now hides or shows the file type extension depending on the global Windows setting.  This was already being done in window title bars and menus.

60. Counters no longer disappear (in the browser) after web page has been closed and reopened in COOL Page.  Simply Publish your pages again in this new version to make counters reappear.

59. Item #48 below was incorrectly warning for counters.

58. Better organization for Getting Started section of this Help.  And added some key items to Frequently Asked Questions, such as how to work with Frame Sets to make menus (see item #57 below) and how to increase the range of Scroll Bars more rapidly.

PRO 58. Only the PRO version of COOL Page can Preview, Publish, and Export a Frame Set.  Any version of COOL Page can be used to create Frame Sets.  See item #57 for more info.

57. Added New Frame Set in the File menu, which is used to create web pages called “Frame Sets”, where part of the web page can change while other parts remain stationary.  Most people will use Frame Sets for placing a menu of links across the top or left side (frame) of the web page, and have those links bring up web pages in the bottom or right side (frame) of the web page.  However, Frame Sets are very powerful feature with possibilities only limited by the imagination and creativity of the user.  When a Frame Set is the active window, then Window on the Link toolbar contains choices for loading the link in any frame of the Frame Set.  To edit the properties of the Frame Set, select Frame Set from the Edit menu.

56. The warning “You have not yet set the Title or Description for your web page...” is now only shown once, and now has a choice to cancel the current operation.

PRO 55. Added the ability to use any font size.  Choose “other” in the font size selection combobox on the toolbar.

54. Added the ability to use any installed TrueType font.  Choose “other” in the font typeface selection combobox on the toolbar.

53. Increased the height of 8 point text slightly (by 1 screen pixel) in COOL Page‘s editing view, to agree more precisely with Microsoft Internet Explorer.  This may cause some reformatting in older web pages with 8 point text, but gives better consistency and better looking 8 point text.  Netscape Navigator uses a smaller 8 point text, but will still look fine.  Some Text Boxes in older web pages may need to be increased in size to account for this change.

Version 1.9b

52. Add support in Publish for Yahoo/Geocities’s new shorter addresses for web pages.  This assumes that your Member Name is your Yahoo ID, i.e. that you properly merged any old Geocities account to your Yahoo account.  All new Yahoo/Geocities members automatically have merged status.

51. Can now Link to a download file, which may be any kind of file such as compressed download, executable file, sound, image, etc.  Select an object or text then click the Browse... button on the Link toolbar.

50. Detects when Any local files referenced in HTML Objects are not found and allows user to locate them.

49. Welcome to COOL Page wizard is now expanded and improved.  For example, the “Create new page” option now allows renaming the new page and explains how to make a multiple page web site.  New options have been added for popular things beginners want to do.  This wizard can now be reached at any time by selecting Wizard from the Help menu.

48. Detects HTML Objects which have not been resized and warns that web page will not look correct in browser unless it is resized same or larger than what is displayed in place of the HTML Object in the browser.

47. Important additions and corrections in the Frequently Asked Questions of Getting Started section of this Help, such as how to send a Cool Page web page in an email, and a correction for doing links to farther down the same page (Anchors).

46. Converted the Sounds in the Objects window to uncompressed WAV format so they will work with more browsers.  This has increased their size drastically so people may notice a much slower web page if they use these sounds.  Unfortunately this is the state of sound on the web-- either compatible and slower to load, or incompatible and highly compressed.  We chose the former.

45. On installation, the pre-existing sounds from the Windows/Media folder are copied (added) to COOL Page’s Sounds.  For Windows 98, depending how many themes the user has tried previously, this can add hundreds of sounds to COOL Page without making the download any larger.

44. Fixed a bug where some midi sound files (.rmi) would not appear in Browse in Background in Edit menu.

43. Detect and warn about hosts we know that don’t work with COOL Page because they don’t fully support the fundamental internet standards such as FTP and URLs.  Luckily these non-standard hosts are only a few in the world.  Most hosts support the complete internet standards and thus work correctly with COOL Page.  Unfortunately for some preexisting COOL Page users, a moderately popular host WebJump.com no longer works with COOL Page because the last time we checked WebJump did not fully support the FTP internet standard for reading files and the new COOL Page 1.9 and later versions rely on reading files to detect successful or failed publish attempt.  These users are advised to publish to another free host available in COOL Page’s Publish box.

42. Made .html, .htm, and .shtml separate File Type choices in Save As and Export.  Choosing one of these also sets the Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml) setting from the Publish box.  See #11 below.

41. Fixes and improves some minor issues with Publishing.  The most significant issue was that if Page Being Published contained spaces, then Address (Location) was showing an incorrect address with spaces instead of the spaces replaced with hyphens.

Version 1.9a

40. Fixes Publishing to GeoCities and other hosts which restrict file types.

Version 1.9

*** In this section, denotes additions since version 1.8.  The rest of the improvements in this section are since version 1.6.

*** 39. VERY IMPORTANT.  You can now place the '<' and '>' (less and greater than) symbols in a Text Box and they will appear on the page.  This will break all Text Boxes (in web pages made with previous versions) that were being used for the old "Insert HTML" method.  The new improved way is to use the HTML Objects.  Convert all such Text Boxes to HTML Objects.  See #30 below.

*** 38. The Publish feature of COOL Page has been completely redesigned to make it simple and fool-proof.  It now advises you ever step of the process, including telling you exactly where to sign up for a free account, what the address of your web page will be, how to change the name of your web page, and in some cases can even guess your email address for submission to search engines and show you the published web page online after completion.  It now checks to make sure your Member Name and Password are valid, and it tells you if the page did not Publish successfully.

*** 37. Fixed a common alignment bug where the objects on the page would not align the same in browser as in COOL Page.  The case fixed is where ALL the text in a Text Box (usually a single line) has the centered attribute (i.e. the Centered button is pressed on toolbar after SelectAll) and the Text Box was the same height as the text (i.e. no extra space between bottom of text and bottom of Text Box).  NOTE: This doesn't fix the much less likely case where only the last line in a Text Box is centered.  In this case, please make sure you leave extra space between last line and bottom of Text Box.  We will fix this case eventually when we do Right and Justified text alignments.

36. The slow, high-quality option for 256 color display has been fixed.  This used to crash.  We strongly suggest that any one running a 256 color display, try to change their display to greater than 256 colors.  Or go to Edit menu -> Preferences -> General and try setting COOL Page to use the more accurate but slow method for 256 colors.

35. Images can now be resized.  The quality of result in browser will not always be as good as what you see in COOL Page, as it depends on the quality of browser resizing and some browsers aren't that good at resizing.  In a future version, COOL Page will remove the dependence on browser resizing quality.

*** 34. Dragging on corner of image now does a proportional (non-distorting) resize, unless Shift key is pressed down.  For other objects dragging on corner is only proportion if the Shift key is pressed down.

33. On registration (or purchase of CDROM), users get a 600 high quality collection for the Objects window.  This includes 175 Animations, 52 Backgrounds, 13 Bars, 27 Buttons, 60 Clip Art, 230 Icons, etc.  Unregistered users get a sampling of this collection for preview.

32. Starting COOL Page is now blazingly fast, because the preview images for Objects window are built during idle time after start up.

31. There are now "Add Objects", "New Tab", "Delete", and "Help" options in the Objects window.  The "Add Objects" will add the appropriate type of object depending on tab selected in Objects window.  Also provisions are made for upgrading or uninstalling without loosing the objects added.

30. An HTML Objects is added.  Now any kind of custom HTML can be used, including scripts and Java.  Referenced local files may be identified by user and then are automatically uploaded with the web page when Published.  The referenced files are automatically renamed as necessary to enforce web restrictions on file names (such as no spaces).  A new HTML Object can be created from HTML Object in Insert menu, Paste HTML in Edit menu, or as with all COOL Page Objects-- by copying and pasting an existing object.  It is up to you to use correct HTML, as the HTML is not verified by COOL Page.

29. Lots of cool addons have been added to Objects window.  For example, "Counter" and "Sound" sections have been added and you can simply drag your favorite counter or background sound from the Objects window into your page.  It is now really simple to do these sort of custom addons.

28. Like images and text files, background sounds may now be imported using Import button (or Import in File menu), as well as be drag+dropped from My Computer or Windows Explorer.

27. All COOL Page Objects' properties may now be edited from Object in Edit menu.  This provides among other features, a way to set size of objects numerically.  This is also the precursor to powerful Object features such as mouseovers in a future version.

26. COOL Page now publishes/exports slightly more optimized .html files.  In cases where it is safe to do so.  The technical description of this optimization is "&nbsp is used instead of transparent image file (t.gif)".  This will typically reduce the size of .html files about 5% - 10% and provide a correspondingly faster load time for web page.  This also helps the browser format and scroll the page faster, as the internal browser overhead for a &nbsp is much lower than for a transparent image.  We have more .html optimization to do in future versions (in particular we hope to make the page load incrementally in a future version).  Just remember to re- Publish all your COOL Page web pages with each new version in order to take advantage of any new optimizations we make.  With each upgrade, simply open each of your web pages in COOL Page and Publish them one-by-one.

25. Edit menu Copy, Cut, Paste, and Delete now work correctly when cursor is in the Link or Anchor boxes on the toolbar.  The equivalent keystrokes (ctrl+X, ctrl+C, ctrl+V, and Del) have always worked in Link and Anchor.

24. For those using an unregistered copy of COOL Page for more than 30 days, the ability to continue using .GIF images is now much easier.  There are now 2 choices.  The easier way doesn't show .GIF images during editing so it still pays to register.  The ability to see .GIF images during editing after 30 days is still as it was before, enough of a pain to make people want to register but fully-functional if user takes the time.  The reason for this change is unofficially we'd prefer people keep using COOL Page, even if they aren't ready to buy it, because a larger user base is good for promotion.  Plus, only registered users get the new 600 image pack for Objects window.

23. Insert menu has been added with instructions for inserting each kind of COOL Page Object: Box/Line, HTML, Image, and Text.  Also 2 items (Insert Special Character and Non-break Space) from Edit menu -> Text were moved into the Insert menu.

22. Improved Publish box Help, including step-by-step instructions for sign-up at popular free host sites.

21. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section has been added Getting Started section of Help.

20. Publish now uploads t.gif first so much less chance that pages end up looking like "mine fields" of missing image icons, when Publish is incomplete.

19. Upload button in Publish no longer gets stuck in the greyed out state due to editing of the Folder field.

18. Edit menu -> Text -> Default Color is now much easier to understand operate.  It used to go grey when text was already default color.  Now it is always enabled and shows a check mark when text is default color.  The Edit menu -> Page now has an explanation that Default Color, Normal links color, and Visited links color are used for text that has the Edit menu -> Text -> Default Color checked.  These are like page-wide styles for colors of text, linked text, and visited linked text.  This is in lieu (for the meantime) of a full-blown styles implementation.

17. COOL Page now works correctly with wider array of filenames.  This should correct problems with Publishing, Previewing, and Exporting.  There were some cases of filenames that used to cause these COOL Page operations to fail.  Some examples were filenames containing punctuation, multiple periods, and COOL Page files (.cpg) that were renamed outside of COOL Page to contain spaces.

*** 16. COOL Page can now reliably Preview and Publish more than one page simultaneously, even Preview and Publish the same page simultaneously.  In fact, one can be Publishing a version of a page while making further edits to the page.

15. Closing the web page or COOL Page while Publishing now correctly prompts whether to abort and actually aborts Publishing.  *** For version 1.9, exiting COOL Page can be canceled if Publishing is still in process.

14. Warns user on Preview and Publish if Title and Description of web page are not set.

13. Publishing index.htm or index.shtml, deletes the index.html, and deletes index.shtml or index.htm respectively.   This is to insure correct page is seen using short version of page address.

12. The reminder to check for upgrades of COOL Page after 3 months has been fixed.  It used to be larger than a 640x480 screen, thus preventing some users from running COOL Page.  Also the user is reminded to check to make sure computer's date is set correctly.

11. Export now defaults to existing page name in but change to an exported (non- COOL Page) file type, and now export to HTML always honors the Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml) setting from the Publish box (even if you override by entering type in file name in Windows File dialog box, which requires that "Hide registered type" is configured off in Windows).

10. New tip for setting custom background when dropping in Background image from Objects window.

9. Browse... in Link toolbar, Preview, and Export now honor Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml) setting in Publish dialog.

8. Many changes in the Help menu.  Check for Upgrades... and Benefits of Buying... were added.  Due to some confusion about whether their copy of COOL Page is a purchased version, we changed Buy... to never become grey, and instead now tells user that his version of COOL Page is a purchased version.

7. The tabs in Objects window are now sorted in alphabetical order.

6. Will no longer report an "invisible Text Box error" for a Text Box containing only extended characters, e.g. (c) (r) etc.

*** 5. .shtml is added (in addition to .html and .htm) as a Publish Page Type.

*** 4. All operations which launch a web page in default browser, now first show an explanation message and Cancel button.

*** 3. Unregistered users are now prevented from deleting the COOL Page Button advertizement when deleting a Box or Line that contains it.  Now in all cases, unregistered users should be prevented from deleting the Cool Page Button advertizement or it's Link.

*** 2. More additions to the F.A.Q. in Getting Started section of Help menu -> User Manual.

*** 1. Link Toolbar is now correctly disabled for HTML Objects.  Instead, set your links in the HTML by double-clicking the HTML Objects.


Why Cool Page?

Why use COOL Page instead of other programs such as Microsoft FrontPage Adobe PageMill, NetObjects Fusion, Symantec VisualPage, or entry-level products such as CoffeeCup Express, HotDog PageWiz, HotDog Express, Homestead online editor, Splash, Sierra WebStudio and FrontPage Express?

Half the story: COOL Page is less expensive, easier-to-learn, easier-to-use, performs better, is bug-free, is constantly refined by 3Dize based on your feedback, has 24/7 email support, and is 100% compatible with all popular web browsers.

But an important question is why is COOL Page’s pixel-accurate, “anywhere” layout more beneficial than the method used by those other programs?

	1.	With FrontPage, PageMill, Netscape Composer, etc which use a document (word processor) method for layout, you can not pick up some object and drag it where you want it to go on the web page.  That is the key distinction.  Eventually you may want precise control over where things get placed on the web page, so as to achieve the design in your head.  With products such as FrontPage, PageMill, and Composer, you may become frustrated because you can't easily get things to the position you want (especially the more stuff you add to your page).  For example, try moving an image to lower, right corner of the page in those other programs.  Whereas, in COOL Page, it is as simple as dragging it there.
	2.	Other programs such as Fusion, WebStudio, Splash, and Homestead have some support for “any where” layout, however they are NOT 100% compatible with all browsers (i.e. what-you-see-is-NOT-always-what-your visitors-get), and they are not nearly as easy-to-learn and easy-to-use.  In some cases with these other programs, you have to choose between supporting only a subset of browsers in the world, or the full features of the program.  However, in COOL Page every feature works flawlessly with all browsers in mass circulation (i.e. Netscape 3+, IE 3+, and Opera 3+)*. Also all of these programs are very awkward to use in our opinion.  For example, we tested Fusion 4.01 (a $299 program and often considered the market leader), and although we were impressed with it’s array of professional features (many of which we have or will be adding to COOL Page), some basics things were really difficult to figure out.  First off Fusion had problems loading and displaying some of the GIF images in COOL Page, specifically the 3D Alien in Animations. Also, Fusion tries to divide up the page, so you can’t move things freely any where on the page.  And Fusion does not have a truely general Frame Set feature like COOL Page does. When you resize an object in Fusion, the object does not resize dynamically while you are dragging it.  You have to release the drag before you can see what you get.  You may not think little things like this are a big deal.  But try tweaking an image to just the size you need and you will appreciate COOL Page’s 100% WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) real-time feedback. And Fusion has a concept of “add-ons” which means you end up paying $15 - $50 for each snazzy component you want to add to your web page.  Also Fusion has no equivalent to COOL Page’s drag+drop Objects window.
	3.	And other programs are nothing more than glorified text editors for editing the HTML code with a batch preview window, or template editors where you answer a few questions and a limited, simplistic page is generated for you.
	4.	COOL Page is 100% WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get).  Meaning editing the text right on the page, editing the frames how they appear in the browser, etc.  Other products may be 80% WYSIWYG, but don’t settle for less than 100%. You can rely on that all visitors to your web page will see the same thing that you do in Cool Page and in your browser.  Doesn’t matter if you are viewing the web page in an old version 3 browser or the latest browser, everyone will have the same experience.  Most (if not all) other web page creation programs have some risk of displaying different results and even errors in older browsers.

So why is this all important anyway?

Good web page design revolves around the fact that visitors scan web pages.  In other words, web page visitors don’t read everything on the page.  They hit a few major points and choose where to focus their interest.

Don’t believe?  What was the first thing you noticed on this page?  Did it grab your interest and cause you to read further?  The fact that visitors scan web pages is well documented by industry experts.

A web page with too much text is a bad web page.  If you want users to leave your web page immediately, two sure ways are to make the text too dense or use too many conflicting colors.

Designing a good web page is a trial-and-error, creative experience of placing elements in different locations to find the combination that has the desired result on the audience.  Care has to be given to position, size, sectioning, balance, i.e. all those things one learns in a desktop publishing book.  But, often common sense and our eye will tell us what looks right.

The ability to freely move elements on the page is crucial to creative web page design.  And creative web design is crucial to good web design.

* Netscape 2 is also supported reasonably well, although you’d be hard pressed to find anyone still running Netscape 2.


Extending Cool Page (Cool Page API)

This section is for programmers who want to add features to COOL Page.  Programmers are encouraged to make, market, and sell addon products.  See the COOL Page web site for marketing and sales partnership opportunities.  Programmers may also wish to use this section to automate personal or corporate needs.

The APIs (application programming interfaces) defined in this section are copyrighted by 3Dize, Inc..  3Dize, Inc. hereby extends to any entity a forever perpetual, royalty-free license to utililize these interfaces as a client program.  All other rights are reserved, including the implementation of these interfaces.  In other words, you can make programs which call these interfaces at no charge, but you can not make a clone of COOL Page to implement them.  The limitation of warranties apply to these interfaces, as specified in the license that came with this software.  Although 3Dize, Inc. makes best effort to make these interfaces perfect, stable, and useful, 3Dize, Inc. legally disclaims certain liabilities.  Specifically these interfaces may change without notice, may not function as documented, and otherwise may not perform as expected.  In no case will 3Dize, Inc. be held liable for damages incurred due to the use, misuse, or inability to use these interfaces.

Programming COOL Page from a Web Page

There are cases to be detailed below, where you can cause COOL Page to display and execute a web page (an HTML file).  You can then access the COOL Page APIs as extensions to the DOM (Document Object Model).  Specifically the API function name will be appended to:

   window.external.

In theory the DOM can be accessed from any language supported by the browser (see http://w3c.org for more info), such as Java, VBScript, etc..  But in practical terms at current time, most programmers will probably use JavaScript embedded in the HTML web page to access these DOM extensions.

For example, to call the Undefined() COOL Page function, use the following snippet of JavaScript:

   var result = window.external.Undefined();

However, because different versions and editions of COOL Page will implement different functions and function arguments, you must do error checking for functionality as follows, to acertain if a function was supported.  Failure to correctly test for supported functions may cause your code to break in other editions of COOL Page.

   if( !window.external.Undefined )

      return;

   var undefined = window.external.Undefined();

   var result = window.external.OtherAPI( argument1, argument2 );

   // Function + # of arguments was not supported?

   if( result == undefined )

   {

      // Function is supported, but not the # of arguments attempted?

      if( window.external.OtherAPI )

         return;

      return;

   }

Invoking an Automation Web Page in Cool Page

Automation web page file names should end with “.cpao”, and should be placed somewhere within the hierarchy of folders under the following folder within the COOL Page installation:

C:\Program Files\3Dize\Cool Page\Objects

Note, on installation of your automation web page(s) you should allow the user to choose the location of the portion, C:\Program Files\3Dize\Cool Page, as user may have installed COOL Page elsewhere.

Also, you must place in the same folder preview image(s) with the same file name as the automation web page, except with the appropriate image extension (“.gif” or “.jpg”).  These image(s) will appear in the Objects window of COOL Page, so the automation objects can be drag and dropped on to a COOL Page web page.

After drop, a new PageHTML object will be inserted into the COOL Page web page, made the selected object in active document, and the automation web page will be displayed in a browser window within COOL Page.  Every time the user requests to edit the PageHTML object, the object will be the selected object in active document and the automation web page will be displayed in a browser window within COOL Page.

Note that the automation web page is copied to temporary folder before it is displayed in the browser.  This is so that CopyFile() can be used to add files to this folder.  This is necessary for example for Java applets which (due to Java security restrictions) can only access files within the folder containing the applet.  Any files copied into the temporary folder are deleted when the automation web page is closed.

The following are the officially recommended folders for common automation web page types:

Java applets	...\Objects\Applets\Applet Collection Name\
Javascripts	...\Objects\Scripts\Script Collection Name\
Templates	...\Objects\Templates\Template Collection Name\
Wizards	...\Objects\Wizards\Wizard Collection Name\

Cool Page API

The following functions (interfaces) are supported in various editions and versions of Cool Page.  Where possible an attempt will be made to indicate which latest version of an edition supports an interface, although this is no substitute for function level implementation detection described in Programming COOL Page from a Web Page section above.

Important Note: all inputs (arguments) and return values are strings.  In Javascript use toString() and parseInt() to convert between strings and integers.

Undefined()

	Returns string which will be returned from a function call which is not implemented.  In Javascript:    var undefined = window.external.Undefined();    if( parseInt( undefined ) != 0 )       alert( "impossible" );     // Was function call + arguments implemented?    if( window.external.OtherAPI() != undefined )
Defined()

	Returns string which is the property of an implemented function (excluding arguments).  In Javascript:    var defined = window.external.Defined();    if( parseInt( defined ) != 1 )       alert( "impossible" );    // Is function implemented?    if( window.external.OtherAPI == defined ) or:    // Is function implemented?    if( window.external.OtherAPI )
NumOpenDocuments()

	Returns the number of web page documents open for editing
GetSelectedObject( index )

	Returns the unique name of the selected object on document of specified index, or "" if no object selected or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document
SetSelectedObject( index, name )

	Selects the object of the specified name on the document of specified index,  or returns "" if object not found or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document. Objects of class PageText have two selection modes.  When a PageText object is selected then the entire object is considered selected.  This allows only functions herein which operate on a PageText class not in Text Context mode.  Selecting the PageText object again (while it is already selected) enters the Text Context mode, where only functions which operate on Text Contexts may be used.  Text Context mode is where either the cursor is visible for text editing or a section of text is highlighted for editing.  To exit Text Context mode, select a different object of the web page background. The following are predefined names:    "Background" - web page background    "Cool Page Button" - 88x31 advertising button image    "Web Search" - web search box object
GetObjectClass( index )

	Returns the class of the selected object on the document of specified index, or "" if no object selected or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document Object class hierarchy, where indented class inherit all capabilities (all functions herein) of classes indented from:    PageElement       PageFrame          PageBackground          PageGroup       PageImage          PageHTML             PageHTMLParameterized       PageText
SetObjectName( index, name )

	Sets the name of the selected object on the document of specified index, or returns "" if name is not unique, no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document Requires PageElement object class and non-Text Context
GetObjectLinkHREF( index )

	Returns the URL that the selected object (or selected Text Context), on the document of specified index, is linked to, or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class, Text Context if PageText, and not PageFrame or PageHTML. This URL defines the HREF attribute of the <A> anchor HTML tag explicitly, except for the following exceptions: 1. If specifies a file on local disk, then:    a. If file ends in .cpg, then link to Cool Page web page    b. Else link to file and upload file with page
SetObjectLinkHREF( index, url )

	Sets the URL that the selected object (or selected Text Context), on the document of specified index, is linked to, or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document Requires PageElement object class, Text Context if PageText, and not PageFrame or PageHTML
GetObjectEditor( index )

	Returns the url (usually a full path + filename on local disk) of the script that is responsible for displaying and editing the properties of selected object on the document of specified index, or returns "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class
SetObjectEditor( index, url )

	Sets the url (usually a full path + filename on local disk) of the script that is responsible for displaying and editing the properties of selected object on the document of specified index, or returns "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Note this change is not undoable and is change in all object's edit history. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class
SetObjectEditorName( index, name )

	Sets the user viewable name of the script that is responsible for displaying and editing the properties of selected object on the document of specified index, or returns "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. This name should include the name of the package the user installed which made this editor script available.  For example, if the editor script is "AScript" in an installed package of "ScriptCollection" then we suggest setting this editor name to "ScriptCollection : AScript". Note this change is not undoable and is change in all object's edit history. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class

GetObjectWidth( index )

	Returns width of selected object on the document of specified index, or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class
GetObjectHeight( index )

	Returns height of selected object on the document of specified index, or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class
SetObjectSize( index, width, height )

	Sets size of selected object on the document of specified index, or returns "" if no object selected, not required object class, document index out of range, or size was out of range or constrained (in which case user was already given error message). Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageElement object class
GetObjectHTML( index )

	Returns HTML as was set with SetObjectHTML() for selected object on the document of specified index, or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. If HTML is "", then Defined() is returned instead. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageHTML object class
SetObjectHTML( index, html )

	Sets HTML of selected object on the document of specified index, returns or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageHTML object class
GetObjectFiles( index, delimiter )

	Returns the list of files as was set with SetObjectFiles() for selected object on the document of specified index, or "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. Each file in list is separated by the specified delimiter. Each file is the complete path + file name of the file on the local disk.  This file is published with the object when web page is published. If list is "", then Defined() is returned instead. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageHTML object class
SetObjectFiles( index, file1, file2, ... fileN )

	Sets the list of files for selected object on the document of specified index, or returns "" if no object selected, not required object class, or document index out of range. To set files to none, then do not specify a file argument (e.g. SetObjectFiles( index )). Each file is the complete path + file name of the file on the local disk.  These file(s) are published with the object when web page is published. All files must be referenced in the text input to SetObjectHTML().  Thus before calling SetObjectHTML(), it is advised to set files to none (e.g. SetObjectFiles( index )).  And then after calling SetObjectHTML(), call SetObjectFiles() again with new set of files. Specify negative index for active document. Requires PageHTML object class
CopyFile( source_file, destination_folder )

	Copies the source file to the destination folder, or returns "" if destination file already exists or source file does not exist.


File menu

	New
	New Frame Set...
	Open...
	Close
	Save
	Save As...
	Export...
	Save All
	Import...
	Preview...
	Publish...
	Help on Printing...
	[Recent Scenes]
	Exit


Edit menu

	Undo
	Redo
	History...
	Cut
	Copy
	Paste
	Paste HTML...
	Delete
	Group
	Background...
	Object...
	Page...
	Frame Set...
	Text : Default Color
	Text : Select All
	Layer...
	Preferences...


Insert menu

	Box or Line Object...
	HTML Object...
	Image Object...
	Invisible Object
	Text Object...
	Text : Non-break Space
	Text : Special Character...


View menu

	Status Bar
	Invisible Object Borders
	Text Borders
	Selection
	Snap To Grid
	Grid Preferences...
	Beginner Toolbar
	History Toolbar
	Object Toolbar
	Text Toolbar
	Links Toolbar
	File Toolbar
	Advanced Toolbar
	Float All
	Reset All


Window menu

	Tile Vertical
	Tile Horizontal
	Arrange Icons
	New
	Close
	Objects
	Zoom In
	Zoom Out
	Zoom
	[Open Window Titles]


Beginner Toolbar

When this Toolbar is shown, all other Toolbars except for Links Toolbar are inaccessible.  This Toolbar is intended for beginning users or those who want a simplier user interface with less choices.

Hiding this Toolbar from View menu will show the other Toolbars and provide a more complex user interface with more choices.

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Object Toolbar

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


History Toolbar

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Text Toolbar

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Advanced Toolbar

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Links Toolbar

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:

Use this toolbar to make links that the web page visitor can click to bring up another page, or to jump to another item on the same page.

See also the Getting Started section for an overview on publishing, linking, multi-page sites, etc..

Full Address Example: let us imagine we have two web pages on the Internet.  When we visit these pages in our web browser, we see the following two addresses on the Address line in our browser:

http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page1.html

http://www.site2.com/page2.html

Let us say that http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page1.html is to be Published from page1.cpg, which is a COOL Page file we are editing.  One (not recommended) way to make a link from page1 to page2, is to load page1.cpg in COOL Page and select (highlight) some item (text or an image) on page1, then type:

http://www.site2.com/page2.html

in the Link box.  When the visitor to page1 clicks the item, the user will be taken to page2.  If Window is set to new, then page2 will appear in a new browser window, else page2 will replace page1 in the visitor’s browser window.

Relative Address Example: in Full Address Example, page2 existing on a different site, site2.com, so we had to link to the complete address, http://www.site2.com/page2.html.  Let us imagine we have another page:

http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page3.html

which is exists on the same site, site1.com, and same folder, ~myaccount.  In other words, http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page3.html is to be Published from page3.cpg (a COOL Page file) to the same server and account as page1.

Thus, to link from an item (text or image) on page1 to page3, we need only type:

page3.html

in the Link box (note: this can be done easier with toolbar Browse... button).  This is a feature of web addressing called relative urls.  To understand relative urls, look at the full addresses of the two web pages:

http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page1.html

http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page3.html

Since, the link is from an item on page1 to page3, we need only type the difference in the path from page1 to page3.  If for example, page3 was published to a Folder:

http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/page1.html

http://www.site1.com/~myaccount/folder/page3.html

then type:

folder/page3.html

in the Link box.  The Full Address Example method will always work, but relative urls have the advantage of not needing to be changed if ever you publish your COOL Page web pages to another site.

Anchor Example: imagine some text headings at the top of a page.  It is desired that when the visitors clicks these headings, some other portion of the web page will be scrolled into view.

To do this, select (highlight) some text (even one letter is fine), an image, a box, or a border.  Then give that item a unique name, such as MyAnchor, by typing MyAnchor in the Anchor box.  Now select one of headings and type:

#MyAnchor

in the Link box.  Now when the visitor clicks the heading, the MyAnchor item will be scrolled into view.

Anchor on Other Page Example: to link to an anchor on a different page, just precede the anchor name by web page address (relative or full).  For example, if MyAnchor appears on otherpage.html then for relative url type:

otherpage.html#MyAnchor

in the Link box.

Linking to Downloadable File Example: to link to a file that is to be downloaded, for example mydownload.zip, select the text or image for the link and type:

mydownload.zip

in the Link box.  Remember to upload the file using a separate FTP program to the same place that you Publish the web page, as Cool Page doesn't yet have an option to Publish those files automatically.  Use an FTP program such LeechFTP™, which can be downloaded from the Internet and is also available on COOL Page CDROM.

Important Note: COOL Page does not Preview links.  You must Publish to test your links.


File Toolbar

See also Toolbar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


  File, New

Creates an empty COOL Page web page.

See also Getting Started


File, New Frame Set

Creates a new special kind of web page, called a Frame Set

Frame Set is a special kind of web page made of rows and columns of tiles, called frames.  Each frame displays a separate web page.  Thus a Frame Set is a parent web page that displays two or more child web pages simultaneously.

A Frame Set is like a table where each element (frame) displays a separate web page.  The properties (such as scrolling and border) can be set separately for each frame.  Imagine all the arrangements you can do with such a general feature as Frame Set!

Also, Frame Set are useful for repeating some common elements (and theme) throughout your whole web site.  This can produce a web site which loads faster, as the common elements will not have to be reloaded for each sub-page of site.  However, to achieve this increased loading speed, you need to carefully follow the instructions below for linking (steps #5 and #7), so only the frame that is changing is loaded when a link is clicked.

Frame Sets are moderately difficult to grasp at first, but any one can learn if they study carefully the following help.  And, once you understand them you will be armed with a very powerful tool for making professional web pages.  We start with the following example.

Please also read the Frame Set in the Edit menu section.

How to a make a menu of Links across the top or left (but not both at same time), which when clicked open pages on the bottom or right?

(Please Note: if you wish to have both top and left frames with a single bottom, right frame to load changing content into, this requires nested frames and is something we are working on for a future version of COOL Page.  You can get nearly the same effect in meantime, by doing a 2x2 arrangement.)

	(1)	The Frame Set method described below is for when you want the menu of Links to remain stationary across the top or left, while other entire web pages are loaded (by the stationary menu links) to the bottom or right area. Rather than using the method below, a simpler method is to duplicate the menu links on each page and then do not use Frame Sets.  Each method has it’s advantages and disadvantages.
	(2)	Select New Frame Set in the File menu
	(3)	For a top menu, choose 2 rows and 1 column.  For a left menu, choose 1 row and 2 columns.
	(4)	Add text or an image for a menu link in top or left frame
	(5)	Link this menu item (text or image) to another web page using Wizard in Help menu.  Typically you will have already created some other regular (not Frame Set) COOL Page web pages to link to. To create a regular (not Frame Set) COOL Page web page, use New... in File menu.  It is crucial that you link from a menu in Frame Set to web pages which are not themselves Frame Sets.  Else you defeat the efficiency and purpose of using Frame Sets, because you reload entire Frame Set, instead loading just the frame changing (see step #7).  See the rare exceptions in step 9 below.
	(6)	Select the image or entire text which is already linked: Click an image to select it.  Or highlight some text by double-clicking the Text Box and then dragging the mouse over the text to highlight it
	(7)	On the toolbar, change the [image]  Window to row2col1 so the page will appear in frame below the top menu, or row1col2 so the page will appear in frame to right of the left menu. Step #7 is crucial to insuring that the page linked to (page shown when link is clicked) will appear in the frame, rather than reloading the entire Frame Set.
	(8)	Optionally you can preview (and edit) each of the, regular (not Frame Set) COOL Page, web pages that will be loaded by the menu link into the bottom or right frame.  Select Frame Set from the Edit menu, set Row = 2 Column = 1 for top menu, or Row = 1 Column = 2 for left menu, and temporarily change the Page to the one you wish to preview and edit. This allows you to preview and edit each of the pages as they will appear in the bottom or right frame, when the menu link is clicked in browser.  Remember to reset the original Page when you are done, to indexrow2col1 for top menu, or indexrow1col2 for bottom menu.
	(9)	The crucial point made in steps 5, 7, and 8 above is make only your "Home" page a Frame Set (and give it the filename index using Save As in File menu).  Then other regular pages are made using New... in File menu.  These regular pages will be loaded into frame when visitor clicks on menu links in browser.  To preview these other regular pages while editing the "Home" Frame Set page (usually index.cpg), use Browse button in Frame Set in Edit menu. (not Browse on toolbar or elsewhere). In the rare instance you must link from a menu in a Frame Set to a Frame Set page, for example if you are linking to "Home" which is say index.cpg, then...  For example, you want the Home link to refresh the Row = 1 Column = 2 frame back to "Home" and your home page is a 1x2 Frame Set and named index.cpg, then type into the Link box: indexrow1col2.html and set target Window on toolbar to row1col2. You may link to another web site, which is itself a Frame Set, without any special caveats.
	(10)	You can also find various other settings (by selecting Frame Set from the Edit menu) for controlling how each of the frames (row and column) of the Frame Set will appear and behave in the browser.  For example, you can hide the borders between frames and set whether each frame is allowed to have a scroll bar.  Using these settings and altering the numbers of rows and cols, it is possible to create nearly infinite variations. For example, say you wanted a scrolling region (frame) in the middle of the page, i.e. you wanted the scroll bar to appear in the middle of the page.  Simply create a Frame Set with 1 row and 3 columns.  Then hide the borders for all the frames and set the left and right frames to non-scrolling and set the middle frame to auto-scroll.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:

How to add a Java applet menu?

	•	Advanced Users Only: this is not easy for most people to figure out because it requires editing the applet’s HTML code.  Give it your best shot by reading the following.
	•	As for any Java applet you wish to add to a COOL Page web page, use Paste HTML in Edit menu, or HTML Object in Insert menu, to add the Java applet to a frame.  Remember, a frame is a web page contained within a Frame Set.
	•	The trick is to set the links for the menu applet such that they will appear in the frame you desire.  The applet must have a setting for TARGET window.  Set the applet’s TARGET window (similar to but not COOL Page's target Window) for each link to the frame you want the link to open in.  The frame names are of the form rowXcolY, where X and Y are the row and column of the frame respectively.  To determine the row and column of a frame, click the background of a frame, and it's row and column numbers will be displayed in the Frame Set window's title bar.
	•	Different applets will have different ways of setting the links.  Some applets don't support TARGET, thus this can't be used this way.  Others with have separate variables for HREF and TARGET.  HREF is the address of the page to load on link and TARGET is window to load it in.  Still other applets will ask to express the entire link as a single variable in HTML form such as: <A HREF="page.html" TARGET="rowXcolY"> where page.html is the page to load on link.  This can be a relative address as show above (such as when you are linking to page.cpg, then this would be page.html...assuming you are using .html Page Type in Publish).  Or it be a page on another web site, such as http://www.cnn.com/
	•	Read the documentation for the applet to figure out how to set it's variables (parameters).  For now, COOL Page requires you to modify the HTML for the applet to set the variables (aka parameters) of the applet.  Once again, read the documentation for the applet to learn how to do this.  Then insert resultant HTML using COOL Page's Paste HTML in Edit menu


New Frame Set dialog box, Rows

Numbers of rows of frames in new Frame Set.


New Frame Set dialog box, Rows
New Frame Set dialog box, Columns

Numbers of columns of frames in new Frame Set.


  File, Open...

Opens an existing COOL Page web page.  The name of the web page file to open is specified in a Windows File dialog box that appears after selecting Open....

See also [Recent Scenes]


File, Close

Closes the active COOL Page web page.

If the web page has changed since it was last saved or opened, a dialog box appears asking whether to save it before closing.


  File, Save

Saves the active COOL Page web page to it’s current file and folder location on disk.

To save the active web page with a different name and/or in a different folder, use Save As... instead.


File, Save All

Saves all open COOL Page web pages, which have been changed since last saved or opened, to their current files and folder locations on disk.

To save a web page with a different name and/or in a different folder, use Save As... instead.


  File, Save As...

Saves the active COOL Page web page with a different name and/or in a different folder.  The name of the web page file and folder location is specified in a Windows File dialog box that appears after selecting Save As....

Also, by changing the Save as type: in the Windows File dialog box, the web page can be exported as a non-COOL Page file.  One use of this is to export an HTML file for import into other programs.  See also use File Export....

To save the active web page to it’s current file and folder location on disk, use Save.


File, Export...

Similiar to Save As except selects a non-COOL Page file type by default, and does not change the name of the open web page.

One use of this is to export an HTML file for import into other programs.  See also Publish.


  File, Import...

Imports a bitmap image or text file into the active COOL Page web page.  The object is positioned in the web page such that it appears full-centered in the active web page.  The name of the file containing the object is specified in a Windows File dialog box that appears after selecting Import... from the File menu.

Use the Objects window to access all the objects included with COOL Page and any additional objects you have added to the Objects window.

A short-cut for this command is to drag the file(s) directly from My Computer or Windows Explorer into the web page.

Pasting Images into COOL Page:

If you want to bring images from another program into COOL Page, you must use a graphics program to save the clipart as a .GIF, .JPG, or .JFI file.  Then use this COOL Page Import feature to bring the file into the web page, or drag and drop the file on to the web page as described above.

There are many shareware graphics programs available for free trial download.  PaintShop Pro is probably the most well known.  For .GIF and .JPG, we also suggest WinJPEG because it is a very small download.  You can download these from download sites such as www.download.com or www.winfiles.com.  Or, for .JPG only, we suggest JPEG Optimizer at www.xat.com.


OK button

Close the dialog box and save any changes that were made.


Cancel button

Close the dialog box without saving any changes that were made.


Close button

Close this dialog box and keep changes already saved


Apply button

Save all of the changes that were made without closing the dialog box.


Back button

Return to previous dialog box in the wizard.


Next button

Advance to next dialog box in the wizard.


Finish button

Wizard will complete it's function based on the options chosen in all preceding dialog boxes.


Help button

Displays detailed help on the entire dialog box.


 Question button help

Click [image] at the top of a dialog box, and then click the item you want information about.


  File, Preview...

Displays the web page in the default Internet browser on your computer.

This previews what the web page will look like once it is Published to the Internet or Exported to corporate network.


  File, Publish...

Use this to transfer the web page to an Internet site for public viewing.  This is the recommended way to put your COOL Page web page on the public Internet.  This feature has been extensively tested and works will ALL host sites on the Internet.

Simply follow the 3 steps in the Publish box:

	1. Choose a Host
	2. Enter your user (member login) Name and Password for that Host
	3. Click the Publish Page button

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:

If you experience any difficulties Publishing your page, then one of the following is probably the cause:

	•	Your modem is not on or you are not currently logged on the Internet
	•	You incorrectly entered the info in the Publish box shown below.  Be very careful to enter your FTP Site, Member Name, and Password correctly.
	•	Your connection to the Internet or host site was too slow or failed.  If your web page on the Internet is missing some images or does not look like it did inside COOL Page, then this is usually the reason.  In this case, please try Publishing again when you can obtain a more reliable connection to the host site-- i.e. during non-peak hours.
	•	Your account is not longer valid on the host site.  Please check with the host site to find out if your account is still valid, or for easier solution, just sign-up a new FREE account as described below.
	•	If you are getting “page not found error” then either #2 above occurred or you are using the wrong address in browser to access your web page on the Internet.  Browse the member login area of host site or send them an email to determine the address for your account.  Or if you are using one of the popular host sites mentioned below, read below to determine your address.
	•	You are publishing to a non-standard FTP Site (which doesn’t support mixed-case, long file names or member password accessed folders).  This is very rare, as only very few FTP Sites are this retarded.  If you are using one of the following “brain-dead” FTP Sites, then we urge you to please sign up for one of the standard FREE hosts farther below.  Here are all the non-standard FTP Sites in the world we know of that don’t work with COOL Page:
	ftp.angelfire.com home.freeuk.net ftp.publiconline.co.uk

There is some information about Publishing in the Getting Started section.  Please read it first.

There are overall steps to making and putting your web page on the Internet:

	•	Creating a web page in COOL Page
	•	Obtaining an Internet host account to Publish (upload) your web page to
	•	Determining the address of the web page

Creating a web page in Cool Page

	You need to have at least a basic web page created inside COOL Page before you move to the next step.  If you don’t know how to create a web page in COOL Page, please read the Getting Started section.

Obtaining an Internet host account to Publish (upload) your web page to

	Before you can Publish your web page, you must be signed up with a host Internet site to use their server computer to hold your web page(s).  There are FREE hosts available and signing up often takes only a few minutes.  See below for step-by-step instructions for signing up with FREE hosts. If you prefer, most ISPs (Internet Service Providers-- the company who provides your Internet connection) provide you with a host account to use their server computer.  However, you are not required to use your local ISP’s server computer.  Feel free to sign up for a FREE host as described below, especially if your ISP proves troublesome or slow.  Of all the FREE hosts, we strongly suggest Xoom.com at this time. Remember, as stated in section 1. Intro... in the Getting Started section, no long distance charges are incurred when Publishing to any server computer in the world-- you still continue to connect thru your local ISP. All of the FREE host sites use the same basic procedures:
	1. you go to the FREE Sign-up page and join to become a member.
	2. they instantly send you an email with your member Name and Password.
	3. you enter the corresponding FTP Site (as shown below), member Name, and Password in the Publish box and press Upload button
	FREE Sign-up page:	FTP Site:
	http://freeweb.digiweb.com	upload.digiweb.com
	http://www.fortunecity.com	ftp.fortunecity.com
(UK only)	http://www.freeserve.co.uk	uploads.webspace.freeserve.net
	http://www.geocities.com	ftp.geocities.com
	http://www.tripod.com	ftp.tripod.com
	http://www.virtualave.net	<Member Name>.virtualave.net
	http://www.webjump.com	ftp.webjump.com
	http://www.xoom.com	ftp.xoom.com

Determining the address of the web page

	After making all your settings in this Publish box, simply read in the Publish box the info in the line below Address (Location) Of Page Once Published.  If necessary, scroll the line to the right and down to read all the info.


Publish dialog box, Page Being Published

The name of the web page you are Publishing.

If you wish to change the name of the current web page:

	1.	Cancel Publish
	2.	Select Save As... in File menu to rename this page
	3.	Publish again


Publish dialog box, Address (Location) Of Page Once Published

Address the web page will have on the Internet once you press the Publish Page button.

Enter this address in the Address or Location line in your web browser to view your page on the Internet.

If necessary, you can scroll this to the right and down (by clicking mouse in text and using arrows) to read all the info.

For some Hosts, it is not possible for COOL Page to know the exact address.  For these, you can follow the instructions given to determine the address.  Scroll this to the right and down (by clicking mouse in text and using arrows) to read all the instructions.  Or, you can select a different Host, such as Xoom.com.


Publish dialog box, Host

Web site of (and/or name of) company that will store and serve your page on Internet.

Some of these are FREE.


Publish dialog box, FTP site

Usually this will be the web site of the Host with ftp. instead www..  For example, if you signed up with the Host site http://www.xoom.com then in this box you would enter ftp.xoom.com.

For America Online (AOL), enter members.aol.com

In rare cases, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may have an unusual ftp site address.  In this case, contact your ISP for the correct address to enter in this box.


Publish dialog box, Click here to sign up for FREE Member Name and Password at

If this is visible, you can click on it to sign up for a FREE account at the Host.

Note: if Host is Cool Page, then this button takes you to a web page of details on the Cool Page Hosting special offer.

If it is not visible, it means the Host you selected does not provide free accounts.  Or, you can select a different Host, such as Xoom.com.


Publish dialog box, Folder

Publish your web page to sub-folder within your account on the Host’s server computer.

Most beginning users should leave this box empty.  However, some Hosts require a specific folder for web pages.  If Publishing is not working, ask the Host webmaster whether a specific folder is required.

Note: the folder is created on the Host if it didn’t already exist, but not all host sites support this feature.


Publish dialog box, Show detailed progress

If this is checked, then after you click the Publish Page, another window will open to show you the progress and any errors that occur during transfering (uploading) the web page to the Internet.

Even though this window appears, you may continue to work within COOL Page while the web page is uploading.


Publish dialog box, Member Name
Publish dialog box, Name

The user (member) name you normally enter when you sign-on (log-on) to the Host.

If the Host is the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides your connection to the Internet (dial-up connection), then this name will be the same one you enter to connect to the Internet.

Else, if the Host is one of the FREE sites, then this name will be the one you use to enter the members area of the FREE site.

For AOL, enter your screen name here without the “@aol.com”.  Apparently AOL now provides up to 14 screen names with each AOL account and you can publish a web site to each of these by entering the screen name in this Name field.

Special Note for Freeserve.co.uk only: if you are using Host freeserve.co.uk, then Member Name will be the portion of your email address following the @.  For example, if your email address is john@smith.freeserve.co.uk then your Member Name is smith.freeserve.co.uk.


Publish dialog box, Password

The password you normally enter when you sign-on (log-on) to the Host.

For America Online (AOL), i.e. Host is members.aol.com, there is no password required.

If the Host is the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides your connection to the Internet (dial-up connection), then this password will be the same one you enter to connect to the Internet.

Else, if the Host is one of the FREE sites, then this password will be the one you use to enter the members area of the FREE site.


Publish dialog box, Remember password

The password will be saved in encrypted format on your hard disk so that you won’t have to retype it each time.


Publish dialog box, Publish Page

Click this to begin uploading the web page to the Internet.

After you click this, you may continue to work within COOL Page while the web page is uploading.

If Show detailed progress is checked, then the progress of the upload will be displayed in a separate window.

Once the upload is complete, the Published File List will appear to indicate that upload is complete and give you a list of the files uploaded.

Note: this button is not available until all other info in Publish dialog box has been filled up correctly.


Publish dialog box, Domain

Name of the domain (e.g. yourdomain.com) attached to your account at the Host.

Note: the domain must be attached to your account at the Host, else the Address (Location) Of Page Once Published will not be correct.


  File, Help on Printing...

To print the web page:

1. Within COOL Page, select File Preview.

2. Your Internet browser will appear and display the web page. Select Print from the File menu in the Internet browser.


File, [Recent Scenes]

Recently opened COOL Page web pages are listed here.  Selecting one of these listed web pages, opens the web page.

The maximum number of web pages listed here is set in the General section of Preferences.


  File, Exit

Shuts down COOL Page.

If there are any open web pages that have been changed since last saved or opened, a dialog box appears for each one asking whether to save the web page before closing it.


  Edit, Undo

Returns the active COOL Page web page to it’s state before the listed edit (change) was performed.  In other words, the listed edit is undone/reverted.  The affected edit is listed to the right of “Undo” in the Edit menu.

To display all undoable edits that have been made to active web page, use History.  The number of undoable edits retained in the History, and whether undoable edits are saved with the web page, is set in the Undo section of Preferences.


  Edit, Redo

Returns the active COOL Page web page to it’s state after the listed edit (change) was performed.  In other words, the listed edit is done again.  The affected edit is listed to the right of “Redo” in the Edit menu.

To display all redoable edits that have been made to active web page, use History.  The number of redoable edits retained in the History, and whether redoable edits are saved with the web page, is set in the Undo section of Preferences.


  Edit, History...

Displays all edits (changes) that have been made to the active COOL Page web page.  Optionally, quickly perform multiple undo or redo to a specific edit.  Optionally, change the comment associated with each edit.

To return the active web page to the state it had before or after a specific edit, click the edit in the List of edits and then click Undo To or Redo To, which ever appears.  Or, simply double-click the edit.

To change the comment associated with a specific edit, click the edit and then edit the Comment line.

The number of edits retained in the History, and whether redoable edits are saved with the web page, is set in the Undo section of Preferences.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Edit History dialog box, List of edits

The list of undoable edits (changes) that have been made to the active COOL Page web page, along with the comment for each edit.  The current state of the active web page within these edits is indicated with the ****Current Page**** line.

Click an edit to select (highlight) it.  Double-click an edit to Undo To or Redo To it.


Edit History dialog box, Comment

The comment for the selected (highlighted) edit in the List of edits.  If the selected edit is ****Current Page**** , then there is no comment.


Edit History dialog box, Undo To or Redo To

Returns the active web page to the state it had before (for Undo To) or after (for Redo To) the edit selected in the List of edits, and then closes the Edit History dialog box.

This button is “Undo To” if the selected edit precedes the ****Current Page**** line in the list.  Otherwise, this button is “Redo To” if the selected edit follows the ****Current Page**** line in the list.  This button is unavailable if the ****Current Page**** line is selected.

Pressing this button is equivalent to using Undo or Redo multiple times, except it is much faster.


Edit History dialog box, Prev Range

Displays the next older set of edits selected in the List of edits.

Prev Range is only available and necessary if the number of edits is very large.  Normally, the vertical scroll bar in the List of edits is sufficient to scroll thru all the edits.  However, if the number of edits is in the thousands, then this button supplements the vertical scroll bar in order to facilitate manageability of such a large number of edits.


Edit History dialog box, Next Range

Displays the next newer set of edits selected in the List of edits.

Next Range is only available and necessary if the number of edits is very large.  Normally, the vertical scroll bar in the List of edits is sufficient to scroll thru all the edits.  However, if the number of edits is in the thousands, then this button supplements the vertical scroll bar in order to facilitate manageability of such a large number of edits.


  Edit, Cut

Deletes the selected object, Group, or text from the active COOL Page web page and copies it to the clipboard.  The clipboard contents can later be Pasted into any active web page.

Cut can not be used to transfer non-text COOL Page data to another program.


  Edit, Copy

Copies the selected object, Group, or text from the active COOL Page web page to the clipboard.  The clipboard contents can later be Pasted into any active web page.

Copy can not be used to transfer non-text COOL Page data to another program.


  Edit, Paste

Copies any object, Group, or text from the clipboard into the active COOL Page web page.  If there are no object or text in the clipboard, then COOL Page’s Paste in not available.

Use Copy to place an object, Group, or text in the clipboard. COOL Page’s Paste does not copy other types of data from the clipboard, such as Window’s metafiles.

Paste does not remove the object or text from the clipboard.  Thus, Paste can be used repeatedly to add multiple copies of an object or text.


  Edit, Delete

Deletes the selected object, Group, or text from the active web page.

Undo can be used to recover the objects.


Edit, Group

Groups (or ungroups) the selected objects, which locks the positions of multiple selected objects relative to each other.  When moving (i.e. dragging) any object which is grouped, then all objects in the group will move as well.

Hold down the Shift or Control (Ctrl) key and click multiple objects to select more than one object.

When one (or more) object(s) of a single group are selected, then Group is checked, and Cut, Copy, and Delete in Edit menu will operate on all objects in the group.


Edit, Select None

Deselect any selected text in the active web page.


Edit, Select All

Selects all text in in the active Text Box of active web page.


Edit, Default Color

Sets the color of text to the Default text color for non-linked text or Normal link color for linked text.

This will cause the text to track changes to the Default text color or Normal link color settings.

When text is already set to default color, this command is unnecessary and thus unavailable.


Edit, Layer

Move selected object in front of next object that overlaps it, or to behind all overlapping objects if in front of all.

Not available if no objects overlap the selected object.


Edit, HTML Object
Insert, HTML Object

Insert an object into the page, which can hold customized HTML.  Using this feature you can extend COOL Page is most any imagineable way.  This is the way to add Java, Javascript, applets, counters, etc..

Note there are many such items (counters, Javascripts, Java applets, etc.) included in the Objects window or an add-on packages for COOL Page which gets installed into Objects window.  It is much easier to drag the items from the Objects window to your web page, than attempt to use HTML Object.  We advise beginners to use Objects window instead of HTML Object.  Also Objects window items tend to be WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get).  Whereas HTML Objects must be previewed in the browser as stated below.

HTML Object is not for beginners.  When you are ready to learn HTML Object, then go to our help site to learn:

http://coolpagehelp.com

Since HTML Object is so powerful, it can also be easily abused and misused.  Also since HTML is a vast and complex science, we can not advise you on the use of HTML Object, beyond the help here and at our web site.  We encourage you to use the resources at our help site to learn from your fellow COOL Page users.

One very important thing to remember is that when you view HTML Objects within COOL Page, all you see on the page is an image saying “HTML”.  To see the HTML in action, you must Preview, Export, or Publish your page and view it in the browser.

Also it is important to adjust the size of the HTML Objects to the expect size of the HTML in action.  Preview in the browser to get an estimate of the size of the HTML in action.  See more tips on this at http://coolpagehelp.com


Edit, Invisible Object
Insert, Invisible Object

Insert a fully transparent image into the web page.  The only way to see this image is to select it and notice the dotted outline around it.  It will be initially selected when you insert it.  Be care not to lose track of it, because you can’t see it once it is deselected and you could unknowingly litter your page with them.

Other than not being visible, it functions like a normal image and the browser will think it is there, even though humans can’t see it.  This makes it useful for doing things where you want the benefits of an image at a certain place on the web page, but you don’t want to see the image.

For example, say you want to make some text do Events like images do.  One way is to simply put an invisible image on top of the text and set the Events on the invisible image.

Another example is that images (even invisible ones) show the Alternate Text as yellow popups in IE browser and set the Status Bar to Alternate Text in all browsers.

Invisible Objects may be may be transparently placed on top of portions of other images, Text Boxes, or other objects.  Then Links or Events may be set on the Invisible Objects to give the illusion that the Links or Events are set on the underlying object.  Linking Invisible Objects is a way to achieve rectangular "image mapping" (linking portions of an underlying image or object).  Setting Events on an Invisible Object is a way of imparting Events to the portion of the underlying Text Box, image, or other object.  Just think of Invisible Objects as a way to put benefits of a transparent image on any region of the page without obscuring the objects or background at that region.

This invisible image is only 1x1 pixels in file size (even if you resize it larger), so it consumes no noticeable file size and produces no noticeable effect on page load speed.


Edit, Non-break Space
 Insert, Non-break Space

Insert a “hard” space that does allow word-wrap at right margin and which is not collapsed into single space.

Useful for horizontal spacing where multiple spaces are required, i.e. a meager substitute for a tab.  For example, can be used to simulate hanging indents.

Also useful where a space is desired between words but it is not desired for word wrap to occur between those words.


Edit, Special Character
  Insert, Special Character

Insert a special character.


View, Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status Bar, which is a line of text at the bottom of the COOL Page window.

Smart Help™: Very helpful messages are displayed in the Status Bar.  Often these messages will explain what to do next.  These messages will contain help specific to the item under the mouse pointer.  In fact, one of the quickest ways to get help in COOL Page is to position the mouse pointer over an item and then read the message in the Status Bar.  This even works when the mouse pointer is over menu items,  Toolbar buttons, andthe web page itself.

Pressing the F1 key on the keyboard will display help that elaborates on the current Smart Help™ Status Bar message.

When a Tooltip appears, the Status Bar message will contain a more detailed version of the Tooltip text.

If the Status Bar message is highlighted in red color, it means that the pressing or releasing the mouse in the current position will do nothing.  The message explains why.  Pay attention to red messages, they are important!

The blinking of the Status Bar is set in the Status Bar preferences. The highlighted color of Status Bar messages is the Tooltip color set in the Item: field of the Appearance section of the Display panel in the Windows Control Panel.


View, Invisible Object Borders

Show or hide the dotted outline border around Invisible Objects which are not currently selected.

Unchecking this will allow viewing the page without distracting borders, but will make it more difficult to position elements.

Note: selected Invisible Objects are always shown with a border, unless Selection and this are both unchecked.


View, Text Borders

Show or hide the dotted outline border around Text Boxes which are not currently selected.

Unchecking this will allow viewing the page without distracting borders, but will make it more difficult to position elements.

Note: selected Text Boxes are always shown with a border, unless Selection and this are both unchecked.


View, Selection

Show or hide the highlight of any text that is selected and the dotted outline border around selected object.

The main purpose of unchecking this is to see the selected item or text exactly as it will appear on the web page.  For example, with this unchecked, changing the color of selected text will show the text in the new color.  Whereas, with this checked, changes to color are not visible until the text is deselected.

Note: selected Text Boxes are always shown with a border, unless Text Borders and this are both unchecked.


View, Snap To Grid

If checked, all dragging on web page snaps to a grid.  See Grid Preferences to adjust the spacing of the grid and other grid properties.


View, Float All

Floats all Toolbars into moveable and sizeable windows.


View, Reset All

Resets all Toolbars to the default attached positions.


Window, Tile Horizontal

Arranges all COOL Page windows as non-overlapping tiles, with a preference for horizontal space.

Sometimes Tile Horizontal would produce the same results as Tile Vertical, so Tile Horizontal is disabled and Tile Vertical can be used instead.


Window, Tile Vertical

Arranges all COOL Page windows as non-overlapping tiles, with a preference for vertical space.


Window, Arrange Icons

Arrange icons at the bottom of the main COOL Page window.  Icons are the minimized windows.


Window, New

Creates an exact copy of the active COOL Page window.

Useful for having more than one view on the same web page.  Often one view will be Zoomed differently than the other, or viewing different portions of the web page.

Since it is an exact copy, the new window will hide the window it was copied from, until it is moved or sized.


  Window, Close

Closes the active COOL Page window.

If the active window is the only window for a COOL Page web page, then selecting Close or the [image] button is the same as selecting File Close.


  Window, Objects

Shows or hides the objects that can be added to a COOL Page web page.

Position the mouse pointer over an object in the Objects window, press and drag the object to the web page.  The object will be added to the web page.

Also, use Import to add objects to your web page which are not contained in the Objects window.

The Objects window contains all the objects included with COOL Page, plus any extra objects you have added.  Note upon purchase of COOL Page,  you receive an extra 600 objects, including more animations, backgrounds, buttons, icons, etc.  Click here for more info on 600 extra objects.  Upon purchase of COOL Page Pro or higher, you receive an extra 150 Sounds.  Click here for more info on 150 extra Sounds.

You are not limited to viewing the categories at the top of the Objects window.  Simply select any combination of folder(s) on the left side to make a customized category.

Preferences: To change the size of the preview images and other preferences for the Objects window, see the Objects section of Preferences.

Add Objects and Tabs: To add objects and tabs, click the “Add Objects” and “New Tab” tabs at top of Objects window.

Delete Objects and Tabs:  There is no option within COOL Page to delete objects and tabs, because this is not advised.  It is not advised because you may have already created web pages which use those objects, and deleting them can cause those web pages to fail to open.  However, if you are sure you don’t need them, you may do either of the following to delete them:

	•	Open Windows Explorer or My Computer and find the location where you installed COOL Page, usually C:\Program Files\3Dize\Cool Page.  Inside the folder Cool Page Objects are the folders for each of the tabs (i.e. groups) in the Objects window.  You can add/delete new .gif or .jpg images to these folders and create/delete folders.  Any folders created inside the Cool Page Objects folder will appear as group tabs in the Objects window of COOL Page.
	•	Uninstall COOL Page and reinstall it.  Note, this will delete ALL of the images and tabs you’ve added to the Objects window of COOL Page.

See also File Import.


  Window, Objects -> Delete Tab

Delete Objects and Tabs:  There is no option within COOL Page to delete objects and tabs, because this is not advised.  It is not advised because you may have already created web pages which use those objects, and deleting them can cause those web pages to fail to open.  However, if you are sure you don’t need them, you may do either of the following to delete them:

	•	Open Windows Explorer or My Computer and find the location where you installed COOL Page, usually C:\Program Files\3Dize\Cool Page.  Inside the folder Cool Page Objects are the folders for each of the tabs (i.e. groups) in the Objects window.  You can add/delete new .gif or .jpg images to these folders and create/delete folders.  Any folders created inside the Cool Page Objects folder will appear as group tabs in the Objects window of COOL Page.
	•	Uninstall COOL Page and reinstall it.  Note, this will delete ALL of the images and tabs you’ve added to the Objects window of COOL Page.


  Window, Zoom In

Magnifies the active COOL Page window.  Use Zoom Out to demagnify.

Note that Zoom In magnifies the pixel contents of a window and should not be confused with resizing the objects on the web page.  This command is for viewing only and has no effect on the way the web page looks once published or exported.


  Window, Zoom Out

Demagnifies the active COOL Page window.  Use Zoom In to magnify.

Note that Zoom Out demagnifies the pixel contents of a window and should not be confused with resizing the objects on the web page.  This command is for viewing only and has no effect on the way the web page looks once published or exported.


Window, Zoom

Sets the magnification of the active COOL Page window.

Note that Zoom sets magnification of the pixel contents of a window and should not be confused with resizing the objects on the web page.  This command is for viewing only and has no effect on the way the web page looks once published or exported.


Window, [Open Windows]

Activates the named window.

All open windows are listed here by title, and the currently active window is checked.


Help, Buy...

If you are using the Free version of COOL Page, you may continue to use it for free as long as you wish.  However, there are many benefits to buying the Standard, Pro, or Webmaster versions of COOL Page.  These benefits are listed farther below.

Pricing*

	Standard	Pro	Webmaster
	$28	$49	$79
Upgrade From:
Standard 2.5 or later	$0	$22	$53
Pro 2.5 or later		$0	$31
Standard 2.1 or earlier	$0	$22	$41
Pro 2.1 or earlier		$0	$19

When you purchase COOL Page, you will be able to immediately download the purchased full version.  Also at any time in the future, you can immediately download another copy of the purchased full version at no extra cost.

For more information on purchasing COOL Page, and for prices in international currencies, please visit the following web page:

http://www.3Dize.com/unlock.html

To obtain replacement copy of, or upgrade, a previously purchased COOL Page, please visit the following web page:

http://www.3Dize.com/upgrade.html

Benefits of Purchasing Cool Page Standard

Optionally remove Cool Page ad and Web Search Eliminate popup ads on links in the web page Eliminate nag screen when Cool Page program starts	Optionally delete our popup button ad and/or Web Search from all or some of your web pages simply by selecting and deleting ones you want to remove.  The re- Publish your web page(s). Of course we  appreciate if you still display our button ad with pride some where on your web site, but after purchase you are no longer obligated to. Note: if you are using a free Host in Publish, the free Host may be placing ads on your web page.  To remove these ads, please change Hosts in Publish.
Use all font typefaces installed in your computer	When you click “Other” on the font toolbar, you will see all the fonts you have installed on your computer.  You will be able to use all these fonts in your web pages.  Note that you will still be limited to the standard 7 sizes in the font toolbar.  Buy Pro if you also want to use all sizes.
600 objects + 54 Applets for Objects window	On purchase, you will download the full Standard version which includes a collection of 600 objects and 54 Applets that are integrated into the COOL Page Objects window.  Registration keys and help for the Applets are obtained from DSEffects.com.  Unlike other large collections that are filled with useless, low-quality images, all objects in this 600 collection are of high-quality and popular subject matter.  The collection includes: • 175 Animations • 52 Backgrounds • 14 Bars (dividers) some animated • 27 Buttons • 60 Clip Art (by 3Dize and found no where else) • 230 Icons • 60 various See the end of this page for a complete list of all Objects in the collection.  To see samples of some of the objects, see the objects in the free trial. This is 4.5MB or roughly 24 minute download time with fast 33.3kps connection. Note although there might be large number of images in the My Computer folder of COOL Page‘s Objects window, these 600 images you get when you purchase are of extremely high quality and many are original that you will find no where else.
Full support	You can avail of unlimited usage of our email support.  We usually reply on the same day.
Benefits of Purchasing Cool Page Pro

In Pro, you get all Standard version benefits above, plus the following benefits:

All font sizes	When you click “Other” on the font toolbar, you will see all the fonts you have installed on your computer.  You will be able to use all these fonts in your web pages, plus you can use any font size.
Frame Sets	Choose New Frame Set in the File menu to see what you can do with this cool feature.  If you’ve been admiring those professional pages where only part of the page scrolls or changes, you can do this with Frame Set.  And COOL Page is the first program to make Frame Sets really easy-to-understand and show you exactly what they will look like while you are editing them.  Unlike more expensive programs, such as the $299 NetObject’s Fusion, COOL Page’s Frame Set is fully generalized and you are not limited to a few arrangements.
150 Sounds for Objects window	On purchase, you will download the full Pro version which includes a collection 150 Sounds that are integrated into Sound section of the COOL Page Objects window.  Unlike other large collections that are filled with useless, low-quality sounds, or sounds too large for web use, all sounds in this 150 collection are of high-quality, edited for proper web size, and of subject matter relevant to web pages.  The collection includes sounds: • 59 Animals • 1 Explosions • 12 Household effects • 9 Nature • 69 People See the end of this page for a complete list of all Sounds in the collection.  To see samples of some of the objects, see the Sounds in the free trial. This is 6.0MB or roughly 32 minute download time with fast 33.3kps connection. Note although there might be large number of sounds in the Sounds folder of COOL Page‘s Objects window, these 150 sounds you get when you purchase are of extremely high quality and many are original that you will find no where else.
Text show in place of images while images are loading in the browser or when user has images turned off in browser Yellow Tooltips that popup over images in most browser Status bar message	After selecting an image, choose Object from the Edit menu.  In most browsers, the Alternate Text setting there will appear as a yellow popup message when the mouse is hovered over the image, and as text at bottom of browser window.  Also this text will appear in place of an empty rectangle while the images are loading and if the visitor has images turned off in his browser.
Benefits of Purchasing Cool Page Webmaster

In Webmaster, you get all Pro and Standard version benefits above, plus the following benefits:

Events	Select any image on page then choose Events section in Object of Edit menu to create and edit Events.  Events allow you do unlimited effects, such as images that change on mouse over, sounds that play on click, objects that move on click, etc. COOL Page now has cross-browser DHTML, CSS, HTML4, and DOM2 capabilities that rival industry leaders such as Dreamweaver(tm).  However, COOL Page‘s method requires no programming skill.  Simply visually select the event Type, Action, Object, etc. within Events section.  Using this new feature one can accomplish nearly any imagineable dynamic action on the page such as (but certainly not limited to) changing images on mouse over, playing sounds on mouse over or on click, moving objects on the page, showing expanding menus on mouse over, etc..  Now you can make web pages that put the pros to shame!  In fact, even for pros (programmers) using COOL Page is more reliable and implementation-time-efficient than programming by hand, because we’ve already worked out the various browser issues that drive webmasters nuts.
Payment Methods

You can obtain Standard, Pro, or Webmaster in about 5 minutes from our Internet site.

Credit card	We offer a secure online ordering system managed by IBILL, the world’s highly-respected leader in secure Internet transactions.  Also we offer the option to mail in, fax in, or telephone in your credit card order.
Instant online check	Customers in the USA only, can write us an electronic check instantly using a secure online form.  Any USA checking account is compatible with this option.  It is the same as writing a regular check, except we get the check instantly via electronic transfer.  This is 100% secure and as safe as a regular paper check.
Mail check or money order	We also accept regular paper checks in USA and Euro currencies.  For other countries we accept International postal money orders denominated in US dollars.

For more details, please go to our Internet site:

http://www.3Dize.com/unlock.html

* We reserve the right to change this price at any time, for any reason, and without notice

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Images in the 600 Objects Collection

Animations	Bars	Icons continued
3D Alien	Blood Dripping	Flag USA 3D
3D Car 1955	Car Race Formula 500	Flag USA
3D Car Sports	Dots White Scrolling	Flag World
3D Head	Dragon Peeking	Flashlight small
Airplane	Foot Prints Walking	Flashlight
Apple Sparkle	Glue	Floppy Disk 1.44MB
Apple Spinning	Ocean Scene	Flower Patch
Apple Worm Eating	School Bus	Flower Rose
Baby Dancing	Shark Fin	Food Chinese Takeout
Baby Rattle	Snake	Foot Paw Print
Baby Walk	Stick Men Dancing	Football small
Ballet	Swimmer	Football
Banana Peeling Eating	Sword Extending Left	Frog
Baseball Spinning		Fruit Cherries
Basketball Shot	Buttons	Fruit Grapes
Bats Flying At You		Galaxy
Bird Eating Worm	About Me Metal Oval	Galleon
Bomb Bar	About Us Metal Oval	Garbage Can Outdoor
Bomb Exploding Man	Back dark	Gift
Book Pages Flipping	Back Metal Oval	Gorilla
Brain Floating in Jar	Back Wooden	Grenade
Building Blimp Circling	Back	Hamburger Double Burger drawn
Bullet Pyramid	Contact Metal Oval	Hamburger Double Burger
Butterflies Circling Flowers	Down dark	Hamburger
Button Glowing Green	Down	Hand Begging
Cake Slice Candle Burning	E-Mail Metal Oval	Hand Shake
Car Exploding	Guest Book Metal Oval	Hat Cowboy
Castle On Hill Lightning	Help dark	Helmet Viking
Cat Chasing Fly	Help	Horse
Cat Running Silhouette	Home dark	Hotdog
Cat Watching Mouse	Home Metal Oval	Ice Cream Cone
Cat Yawning	Home	Insect Fly
Chain dark	Info Metal Oval	Insect Ladybug
Chain	Links Metal Oval	Keys
Chair Rocking	Mission Metal Oval	Lips
Chef Egg Flipping	Next dark	Lock Combination and Hasp
Chef Kissing Air	Next Metal Oval	Lock Combination Locked
Christmas Tree Scene	Next Wooden	Lock Combination Unlocked
Clover dark	Next	Lock Combination
Clover	Stuff Metal Oval	Mail Envelope Air Mail
Coffee Neon	Up dark	Mail Envelope on Platter
Computer Monitor Chomping	Up	Man Mowing
Computer Typing Itself		Martini on Platter
Cool Page Button	Clip Art	Martini
Corn Cob Peeling		Masks Theater
Crayon	Ball and Claw	Meat Cleaver
Creature Winking	Baseball Bat	Medicine
Cupid Shooting Arrow	Boat Toy	Microphone Antique
Devil Placard On Fire	Book	Money No USA Dollar
Dog Angry	Bull drawn	Money USA Bills and Coins
Dog Astronaut	Bull lighted	Money USA Dollar
Dog Running Wagging	Bull line drawn	Monkey
Dog Running	Bull Man Riding glow lighted	Moon Full
Dogs Tails Wagging	Bull	Motorcycle Harley
Dolphin Swimming	Candles Dinner Table	Motorcycle Race
Dolphins	Castle Facade	Motorscycle Scooter
Dragon Red Walking	Chair Dining	Mushroom
Dragon Twisting	Cloud	Needle and Thread
Earth Cutout Spinning	Credit Cards	New dark
Earth Globe	Crocodile	New small
Earth Glode Spinning	Dinasour	New
Earth Moon Orbiting	Dolphin Fin Down	Newspaper
Egg Dropping	Dolphin Fin Up	Nuclear Atomic
Email Drop Me	Dolphin Jumping	Office Building
Explosion Fast	Eagle Bald	Painting Framed
Explosion Nuclear	Eye Ball Looking Right	Parcel
Explosion	Flamingo	Penguin
Eye Ball Looking Around	Flashlight Light Beam Falloff	Pharaoh
Eye Ball Rolling	Flashlight Light Beam	Pistol Silhouette
Eye Blink Green	Flashlight	Pistol
Eye Blink Handrawn	Football On Fire	Pizza Slice
Eye Blink Silvery	Football	Plant in Pot No Leaves
Eye Looking Around	Galleon	Plant in Pot
Face Awakens Looks Around	Gargoyl	Rabbit
Face Smile Blinking Eyes	Grass	Radio Antique
Faucet Dripping	Gun Machine	Radio Portable
Film Projector	Hamburger Double Burger	Raft Rubber
Fire 2	Hamburger drawn	Sandwich
Fire Camping	Horse	Screwdriver
Fire	Kangaroo Boxer	Sign Warning Toxic
Fireworks	Meat Cleaver	Smiling Face
Fish Bowl	Monkey	Space Ship Alien
Fish Jumping	Moose Head	Space Shuttle
Flower Blooming	Mushroom	Starfish
Football Stadium Fisheye View	Musician Rock drawn	Sun Glasses 2
Frog Croaking Humorous	Office Building	Sun Glasses
Frog Croaking	Pharaoh	Syringe and Needle
Garbage Can Overflowing	Plant	Telephone
Gears Cut Out in Wall Rotating	Remote Control	Toolbox
Genie Floating Nodding	Sink Kitchen	Toy Block A
Ghoul Chasing You	Soccer Ball	Toy Block B
Ghoul Floating	Sofa	Toy Block C
Girl Kicking Ball	Space Ship Alien	Tree Evergreen
Golfer Swinging	Space Ship	Tree Palm
Guard Palace Swinging Weapon	Statue of Liberty	Trumpet
Guilletine	Surf Board	T-Shirt
Hacker	Telephone Public Antique	Umbrella
Hand Chasing Woman	Television cartoonish	Utility Pocket Knife
Hand Counting Ten	Tree Pine	Vehicle Army Tank
Hand Punching Thru Grabbing Pointing	Tree	Vehicle Corvette 57
Heart Beating dark	UFO	Vehicle Porsche
Heart Beating	Vehicle Porsche 911	Vehicle VW Bus
Helicopter Rescue Fire	Woman Standing Mini Skirt	Warning small
Horse Racing		Warning
Horse Silhouette Running	Icons	Watch Pocket
Knight Fighting Opponent		Watch Wrist
Knight Fighting	Alien	Wine Bottle and Glasses
Lamp Blue Lava	Aliens Standing Three	Woman Standing Mini Skirt
Light Bulb	Audio Speaker	Wrench
Light House	Ball and Chain
Light Railroad	Ball and Claw	Interfaces
Light Rotating	Banana Peeled
Light Saber	Beer Mug	Metal Interface About Me
Light Traffic	Billard Ball 8	Metal Interface About Us
Lightning Bolt drawn	Bird Red Robin	Metal Interface About
Lightning Glow	Boat Toy	Metal Interface Back
Lightning In Cloud	Bomb Fuse	Metal Interface Bottom dark
Lightning	Bomb Timed	Metal Interface Bottom
Lock Combination Opening	Book	Metal Interface Company
Mailbox Bird Landing	Bottle Baby	Metal Interface Contact
Man Holding Cool Card	Building Government	Metal Interface Cool Stuff
Man On Fire Running	Bullet Square blue	Metal Interface E-mail
Man Sprinting Start	Bullet Square dark	Metal Interface Free Stuff
Man Trapped Inside Box	Bullet Square green	Metal Interface Friends
Man With Fire	Bullet Square red	Metal Interface History
Masks Theater	Business Chart	Metal Interface Hobbies
Money Flying Away	Business Human Resources	Metal Interface Home
Monkey On Tree	Butterfly	Metal Interface Info
Moose Galloping	Camera 35mm with Flash	Metal Interface Interests
Mouth Kissing	Camera Video	Metal Interface Left
Mouth Talking	Candy Cane	Metal Interface Middle 1
Navigation Dial Rotating	Carrot	Metal Interface Middle 2
New big	Cdrom Gold	Metal Interface Middle 3
New Blown	Cdrom	Metal Interface Middle 4
New	Chair Directors	Metal Interface Middle 5
Pantera	Cheese Swiss	Metal Interface Mission
Pegasus Flying	Chemistry Beakers	Metal Interface Next
Penguin Goggles Dancing	Chemistry Mixture	Metal Interface Photos
Pentunias Rain Drop	Clock	Metal Interface Products
Pirate Shooting	Clothes Hanger	Metal Interface Right
Pony Galloping	Cloud Raining	Metal Interface Site Map
Radar Screen	Crab	Metal Interface Support
Radio Antique	Crate For Export	Metal Interface Top
Road Car Speeding	Cup Cake	Metal Interface
Rocket Silver Thrust Flaming	Desk Top
Safe Opening	Desk	Photos
Sandwich Making Exaggerated	Dice Single
Santa Claus Emerging	Dinasour	Business Luncheon
Scuba Diving	Dog Pitbull
Secretary Taking Notes	Dolphin Jumping	Text
Sheep Counting	Dominos
Sign Click To Enter	Dynamite	Ice A
Sign Dont Walk	Eagle Bald	Ice B
Sign Open For Business	Earth	Ice C
Skull Rotating	Eye Ball Looking Down	Ice D
Snake	Eye Ball Looking Left	Ice E
Sorcerer Lighted Wand	Eye Ball Looking Right	Ice F
Sorceress Native	Eye Ball Looking Up	Ice G
Sorceress	Eye Ball	Ice H
Speaker Audio Box	Face Actress	Ice I
Speaker Audio	Face Alien Blue	Ice J
Spectrum Analyzer	Face Alien Green	Ice K
Star Pulsing	Face Alien Purple	Ice L
Star Twinkling	Face Alien Silver Helmet	Ice M
Stars Twinkling Falling	Face Alien White	Ice N
Telephone Ringing	Face Cowboy	Ice O
Tornado	Face Female Eyeglasses	Ice P
Traffic Jam	Face Female Headband	Ice Q
UFO B+W Antenna Signaling	Face Male Bald	Ice R
UFO Fly Away	Face Male Black Hair	Ice S
Utility Pocket Knife	Face Male Dark Skin	Ice T
Venus Fly Trap Comical	Face Male Eyeglasses	Ice U
Warning Light Industrial	Face Male Eyes Wide Open	Ice V
Warning Radioactive	Face Male Gotee	Ice W
Watermelon Eating	Face Male Long Hair	Ice X
	Face Male Moustache	Ice Y
Backgrounds	Face Male Profile	Ice Z
	Face Male Sunglasses	Move
Balloons Flying faded	Face Moon
Balloons Flying	Face Wacky Tongue Out
Bricks Brown Exotic faded	Fax Machine
Bricks Brown Exotic	File Cabinet
Bricks Old faded	Fire Hydrant
Bricks Old	Fish Angel
Bricks Red faded	Fish Tropical
Bricks Red	Fist
Chaotic Abstract faded	Flag Argentina
Chaotic Abstract	Flag Australia
Christmas faded	Flag Austria
Christmas	Flag Belgium
Clouds Blue Sky	Flag Brazil
Coffee Beans faded	Flag Canada Subtitled
Coffee Beans	Flag Canada
Electronic Circuit Board Backside faded	Flag Chile
Electronic Circuit Board Backside	Flag China
Fabric Gold faded	Flag Costa Rica
Fabric Gold	Flag Denmark
Fire Sidebar	Flag Dominican Republic
Firey Abstract	Flag European Union
Flowers Daisy faded	Flag Finland
Flowers Daisy	Flag France
Flowers Petunia faded	Flag Germany 3D
Flowers Petunia	Flag Germany
Flowers Rose faded	Flag Greece
Flowers Rose	Flag Hungary
Flowers Wild faded	Flag Iceland
Flowers Wild	Flag Ireland
Fruit Oranges faded	Flag Israel 3D
Fruit Oranges	Flag Israel
Fruit Strawberries faded	Flag Italy
Fruit Strawberries	Flag Japan 3D
Gargoryle	Flag Japan
Maps World b&w	Flag Malaysia
Maps World faded	Flag Mexico
Maps World	Flag Netherlands
Marble	Flag Norway
Metal Riveted Plates faded	Flag Poland
Metal Riveted Plates	Flag Portugal
Microphones faded	Flag Singapore
Microphones	Flag South Africa
Paper Crumpled	Flag South Korea
Paper White Narrow Ruled	Flag Spain
Paper White Ruled	Flag Sweden
Puzzle Metallic Etched	Flag Switzerland
Stars Big Bang	Flag Taiwan
Stars Sparse	Flag Thailand
Stars	Flag Turkey
Water Sidebar	Flag UK 3D
Water Under	Flag UK
Sounds in the 150 Objects Collection

Animals	Animals continued	People continued
Alligator	Whale, Beluga	Letter C
Bat Sonar	Whale, Long-Finned Pilot	Letter D
Bear	Whale, Orca	Letter E
Bees	Wildcat, American	Letter F
Bird Call, Australian	Wolf, Werewolf	Letter G
Bird, Alder Flycatcher	Wolf	Letter H
Bird, Alta Mira Oriole		Letter I
Bird, Blue Jay	Explosions	Letter J
Bird, Brazil Rain Forest 3		Letter K
Bird, Brazil Rain Forest 4	Explosion, Mortar Shell	Letter L
Bird, Brazil Rain Forest 5		Letter M
Bird, Brazil Rain Forest	Household	Letter N
Bird, Crow		Letter O
Bird, Duck Quack	Alarm Clock	Letter P
Bird, Eagle Cry	Alarm, Big Ben	Letter Q
Bird, English Cuckoo	Champagne Cork Pop	Letter R
Bird, Seagull	Door Bell	Letter S
Bird, Turkey	Door, Opening Creaky	Letter T
Cat, Angry Yowl	Glass Breaking	Letter U
Cat, Hungry Meow	Telephone, Busy	Letter V
Cat, Persian Meow	Telephone, Dial	Letter W
Cat, Short Meow	Telephone, Error	Letter X
Cat, Short Meow2	Telephone, Off Hook	Letter Y
Chicken, Cluck	Telephone, Ring	Letter Z
Cow	Toilet, Flush	Moan
Cricket		Number 1
Deer, Fallow	Nature	Number 10
Dog, Bark Twice		Number 100
Dog, Bark	Bubbles	Number 11
Dog, Chihuahua	Ocean, Wave on Rocks	Number 12
Dog, Howls	Splash	Number 13
Dolphin	Thunder, Rolling	Number 14
Donkey, Hee Haw	Water	Number 15
Elephant	Wind, Dies Down	Number 16
Frog, African Dwarf	Wind, Picks Up	Number 17
Frog, Carpenter	Wind	Number 18
Frog, Eastern Gray Tree	Windy	Number 19
Frog, Golden Bell		Number 2
Frog	People	Number 20
Horse, Gallop		Number 3
Horse	Ahem	Number 30
Lamb	Applause, Stadium	Number 4
Lion	Baby, Cry	Number 40
Monkey, Chimp	Baby, Giggle	Number 5
Monkey, Chimpanzee	Baby, Sigh	Number 50
Mosquito	Booing, Crowd	Number 6
Otter, Sea	Burp	Number 60
Owl, Amazonian Pygmy	Children, Giggle	Number 7
Owl	Heartbeat	Number 70
Parrot	Kiss	Number 8
Pig, Tasmanian Devil	Laugh	Number 80
Rooster	Letter A	Number 9
Snake, Rattle	Letter B	Number 90
		Snoring
		Whistle, Sexy
		Whistle


Unlock dialog box, public key

You will enter this number at 3Dize’s Internet site and 3Dize will give you back the unlock code.  This process only takes 5 minutes.


Unlock dialog box, unlock code

Enter the unlock code here.


Unlock dialog box, goto 3Dize's Internet site
Unlock dialog box, goto 3Dize’s Internet site

Press this and 3Dize’s Internet site will be displayed so that you can pay for your unlock code.


Unlock Object Collection

There are add-on Object collections you can download and add to COOL Page.  When these are add-on object collections are installed, the previews for the objects will appear in the Objects window.  When you are ready to use the objects in a add-on collection, you must first purchase an unlock code which will instantly make the objects available for use.  You can obtain an unlock code in about 5 minutes from 3Dize’s Internet site using your credit card or billing to your telephone bill.

Note: Unlocking object collections is independent from unlocking COOL Page. In fact, if you really want to save money, you can unlock the collections you need without unlocking COOL Page.

For more details, go to 3Dize’s Internet site:

http://www.3Dize.com/unlock.html

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Unlock dialog box, what will be unlocked

Describes what will be unlocked if you purchase the unlock code.


Please wait...

The following box will appear during operations which a long time to complete.  This box indicates the progress of the operation and allows the operation to be canceled if so desired.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Please wait... dialog box, percent complete

Indicates what percent of the operation has been completed.


Edit, Page

Attributes of the web page.

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Page dialog box, General

General properties of the web page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Page dialog box, General, Title

Title of the web page.

When the page is viewed in an Internet browser, this is usually seen in the title bar of the browser window.  It is also seen at the top of search engine listings for the page.


Page dialog box, General, Description

Description of the web page.

Try to keep this less than 200 characters (about 40 words).  This is seen at the top of search engine listings for the page.


Page dialog box, General, horizontal align page in browser window

When the page is viewed in an Internet browser, this is the horizontal alignment of page in browser window, when the browser window is wider than the page.

Left	left edge of page touches left margin of browser window
Center	page appears centered horizontally in browser window
Right	right edge of page touches right margin of browser window

Note: When editing in COOL Page with Center and Right alignments, the position of elements on the page with respect to the background and window will not be the same as will be seen in the Internet browser.  In this case, use Preview, Publish, or Export to view results in browser.

Note: Left and right browser window margins are not always at the left and right side of the browser window. COOL Page attempts to guarantee (for at least the vast majority of browsers) that the left margin is same as left side of browser window.


Page dialog box, General, vertical align page in browser window

When the page is viewed in an Internet browser, this is the vertical alignment of page in browser window, when the browser window is taller than the page.

Top	top edge of page touches top margin of browser window
Middle	page appears centered vertically in browser window
Bottom	bottom edge of page touches bottom margin of browser window

Note: When editing in COOL Page with Middle and Bottom alignments, the position of elements on the page with respect to the background and window will not be the same as will be seen in the Internet browser.  In this case, use Preview, Publish, or Export to view results in browser.

Note: Top and bottom browser window margins are not always at the top and bottom side of the browser window. COOL Page attempts to guarantee (for at least the vast majority of browsers) that the top margin is same as top side of browser window.


Page dialog box, General, Default text color

Default color of text for the page.

Text set to Text -> Default Color will have this color.  New Text Boxes start off set to Text -> Default Color.


Page dialog box, Background

Background properties of the web page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Page dialog box, Background, Background color

Background color of entire web page.

It is important to set this color even if Use image is checked. If Use image is checked, this color will be seen while web page is loading in the Internet browser and if Internet browser has images turned off.

Note: to give a section of the web page a different background color, use Box or Line.


Page dialog box, Background, Use image

Use an image instead of a solid color for the background of the page.

It is important to set Background color even if this is checked. If this is checked, Background color will be seen while web page is loading in the Internet browser and if Internet browser has images turned off.

When viewed in the Internet browser, if the browser window is larger than the image, the image will be tiled across the background of web page. COOL Page only attemts to guarantee the relative position of elements of the page with respect to this image for Left page alignment.

To prevent the image from tiling, use an image which is wider and/or taller than the largest expected browser window and page length.


Page dialog box, Background, image

File name of the background image.

This is set by clicking Browse.  This image is only used for the background if Use image is checked.

See Use image for more info.


Page dialog box, Background, Browse

Click this to select an image using a Windows File dialog box.

This is only enabled if Use image is checked.


Page dialog box, Links

Default Link properties of the web page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Page dialog box, Links, Normal link color

Default color of text that has a non-empty Link attribute.

Text set to Text -> Default Color will have this color.  New Text Boxes start off set to Text -> Default Color.


Page dialog box, Links, Visited link color

When web page is viewed in Internet browser, this is the color of text that has a non-empty Link attribute, if the linked page has been previously (or recently depending on browser settings) visited.


Page dialog box, Hidden

Hidden page properties (meta tags) which are important for search engines and other robots (automated Internet programs) which may visit your web page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Page dialog box, Hidden, Keywords

Word and phrases that search engines use to find your page.

Separate each word or phrase with a comma (,)


Edit, Object

Attributes of the selected object.

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Object dialog box, General

General properties of the selected object.

This object is part of an addon collection which is made by a different company than 3Dize, Inc (the maker of COOL Page).  Please refer all help and support questions to the company that made this object.


Object dialog box, General

General properties of the selected object.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Object dialog box, General, Name

Name of the selected object.

You may set this to any value that is convenient for you.

This name is used for Target Object in Events.  It is never seen by the visitor of the web page when viewed in a browser, unless they view the HTML source code for the web page.


Object dialog box, General, Horizontal position

Horizontal position of the selected object.


Object dialog box, General, Vertical position

Vertical position of the selected object.


Object dialog box, General, Layer

Layer of the selected object.

Use to control which objects draw in front of other objects, when objects overlap.

Objects with higher layer number draw into front of objects with lower layer number.


Object dialog box, General, Width

Width of the selected object.


Object dialog box, General, Height

Height of the selected object.


Object dialog box, General, Constrain Proportion

Constrain the Width and Height such that they remain proportional to their current values for the selected object.

Insures that changes to Width and Height do not distort the selected object from current proportions.


Object dialog box, General, Original Image Size

Restore selected image to the Width and Height of the Image file.

This button only available when selected object is an image, and Width and Height is not the same as the Image file.


Object dialog box, Image

Properties of the selected image object.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Object dialog box, Image, Image file

Source file of the selected image object.

Change this file using Browse to change which image is display in the selected object.


Object dialog box, Image, Browse

Click this to selected a new Image file.


Object dialog box, Image, Alternate Text

Text that is shown in three places:

1.	Yellow popups in Internet Explorer when mouse hovered over image
2.	In status bar at bottom of the browser when mouse hovered over image
3.	In place of the image while images load in browser, or images turned off in browser
Ignored and not used Free and Standard versions of COOL Page.  Purchase Pro or higher to use this.


Object dialog box, Events

Events of the selected object.

Events are used to make things happen on the web page dynamically as the visitor does some thing (an event).

However, COOL Page‘s method requires no programming skill.  Simply visually select the event Type, Action, Target Object, etc..  Using this new feature one can accomplish nearly any imagineable dynamic action on the page such as (but certainly not limited to) changing images on mouse over, playing sounds on mouse over or on click, moving objects on the page, showing expanding menus on mouse over, etc..  Now you can make web pages that put the pros to shame!  In fact, even for pros (programmers) using COOL Page is more reliable and implementation-time-efficient than programming by hand, because we’ve already worked out the various browser issues that drive webmasters nuts.

Currently Events are only available for selected objects which are images.  To make events on other types of objects (e.g. text) or on portions of an image object, place an Invisible Image on top of the desired portion of the object.  Then set the Events on the Invisible Image.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Object dialog box, Events, Name

Name of the selected event whose properties are edited below.

You may select any existing event here.  Clicking the down arrow, displays a list of all existing events.  Note that multiple events of same Type fire their Actions in the order in which they appear in this list.

You may change the selected event’s name to any name which is convenient for you, by clicking in box to place the cursor for editing and then typing a new name.


Object dialog box, Events, New

Create a new event, which is placed last in list of existing events.


Object dialog box, Events, Delete

Delete the selected event.


Object dialog box, Events, Type

Type of the selected event.

When the following event occurs on the selected object*, the event fires it’s Action:

onAbort		selected image object load aborted or images off in browser
onClick		selected object clicked with mouse
onDblClick		selected object double-clicked with mouse
onLoad		selected image object load completed and displayed
onMouseOver		mouse entered the selected object
onMouseOut		mouse exited the selected object
onMouseDown		mouse button is pressed down on the selected object
onMouseUp		mouse button is released on the selected object

*Note the selected object is the object who owns these Events, e.g. the object whose properties are being edited.  Do not confuse selected object with Target Object.


Object dialog box, Events, Action

Action of the selected event.

When the following Action fires, the result is as follows:

Set Image		Target Object‘s Image file is set to Image file.  Use this to accomplish what is commonly referred to as “mouseovers” or “rollovers”.
Play		Play the Sound file
Stop		Stop play of the Sound file if it is playing.  Not supported by all browsers
Pause		Pause play of the Sound file if it Is playing.  Not supported by all browsers
Show		Show the Target Object
Hide		Hide the Target Object
Move		Move the Target Object to new Horizontal and Vertical position
Offset		Move the Target Object by Horizontal and Vertical offsets from current position.  Negative offsets are allowed.
Script		Only knowledgeable Javascript programmers should use this.  This is inline Javascript code and thus ideally should be a single Javascript function call.  The Javascript function can be added to the web page using HTML Object.


Object dialog box, Events, Target Object

The object on the web page which Action changes.

Pressing the down arrow displays a list of objects on the web page by Name.  Note that some Actions only apply to certain types of objects and thus this list will be limited to objects (on the web page) of the required type.

Do not confuse this with the selected object (on the web page) which owns these Events, e.g. the object whose properties are being edited.  In fact, the selected object always appears first in this list of target objects and begins with “this: “.

Note it is not allowed to have 2 objects whose Target Objects are each other.  Instead use an Invisible Image on top of one of the objects and set the Events for that object on the Invisible Image instead.


Object dialog box, Events, Image/Sound file

The image or sound file required by the Action.

Use Browse to change this file.

Note when a new Set Image Action is created, the Image file is initially set to none, which in effect sets to an Invisible Image.  This is a way to hide the image, without hiding the effects of Alternate Text.


Object dialog box, Events, Browse

Click this to change Image/Sound file.


Object dialog box, Events, Script/Text

The text required by the Action.


Object dialog box, Events, Horizontal

Horizontal position or offset required by the Action.


Object dialog box, Events, Vertical

Vertical position or offset required by the Action.


Edit, Preferences

All the preferences for COOL Page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, General

General preferences for COOL Page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, General, Recent Scenes

Number of recent COOL Page scenes displayed in the File menu.


Preferences dialog box, General, Fast instead of better quality 256 color display

If this is checked, then COOL Page will display pages faster but at lower quality.  With this unchecked, pages will display very slowly but with a better quality.

The best thing to do is click here to and change your computer’s display to greater than 256 colors.

If you do this, then COOL Page will always be fast and high color quality.

Note: this is disabled if your display is already set to more than 256 colors.  In this case, your display is already optimally configured for COOL Page and this setting may be ignored.


Preferences dialog box, Grid

Preferences for Snap To Grid.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, Grid, Show grid lines

Show lines on background of web page to indicate spacing of Snap To Grid.

Make sure the Color of these lines is not same as background, else you won’t be able to see them lines.


Preferences dialog box, Grid, Spacing

Spacing of Snap To Grid lines in pixels.


Preferences dialog box, Grid, Color

Color of Snap To Grid lines.

This is only enabled if Show grid lines is checked


Preferences dialog box, HTML

Preferences for HTML output for Export, Preview, Publish.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, HTML, Compatible Browsers

Browsers which support the HTML created by the COOL Page.  This does not affect any HTML Objects on page.

Version 3.0 or later		Supports browsers as old as Internet Explorer 3, Netscape 3, and Opera 3.  However will not allow overlapping objects on the page, and produces much bulkier HTML pages that load more slowly. This setting is equivalent to HTML produced by version 2.1 or earlier of COOL Page, except for a 20% optimization in HTML size and load speed.
Version 4.0 or later		Supports any browser version 4 or later.  Allows overlapping objects on the page, and produces lean HTML pages that load very fast (up to 1000% faster).


Preferences dialog box, HTML, Page Type

Type of HTML file which is created on Export, Preview, Publish.

Whether the uploaded HTML files will end in .html, .htm, or .shtml extension.

Although .html is the preferred extension for the web, there are situations where using .htm or .shtml is necessary.  Do not set .shtml, unless you know very well what you are doing.

Note: when not set .html, make sure all Links to this web page are changed to use .htm or .shtml instead of .html.


Preferences dialog box, Objects

Preferences for Objects window.

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Preferences dialog box, Objects, Width

Width of preview (thumbnail)  images for Objects window in pixels.


Preferences dialog box, Objects, Height

Height of preview (thumbnail)  images for Objects window in pixels.


Preferences dialog box, Objects, Number images per window

Maximum number preview (thumbnail) images displayed at once Objects window.

If number of preview images in folder(s) selected in Objects window exceed this value, then bottom tabs are displayed which when clicked give access to rest of preview images in the selection.


Preferences dialog box, Status Bar

Preferences for the Status Bar.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, Status Bar, blink rate

Rate at which Status Bar will blink and expand.


Preferences dialog box, Status Bar, Blink

Text of the Status Bar is periodically highlighted in the same background color used for Tooltips.


Preferences dialog box, Status Bar, Expand

Leftmost text of Status Bar is periodically expanded to use full width of the COOL Page window.


Preferences dialog box, Tips

Preferences for helpful messages.

Turn helpful messages on or off.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, Undo

Preferences for Undo, Redo, and Edit History.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Preferences dialog box, Undo, Max undo edits to keep

Maximum number of Undo and Redo edits kept in the Edit History for the active COOL Page web page.


Preferences dialog box, Undo, Save undo/redo edit history

Save all Undo and Redo edits, that appear in the Edit History, with the active web page when the web page is saved.

When checked, Undo, Redo, and Edit History info will be retained for the next time the web page is opened.  When unchecked, this info is lost when the web page is closed.


  Toolbar, Box or Line

When this is checked (down), then press and drag the mouse on the background of the web page to draw a colored rectangle or line.

You must draw on the background of web page-- not on another box or image.

To draw thin lines, make sure Snap-to Grid in View menu is unchecked.  Use Zoom in Window menu to temporarily magnify the web page for easier manipulation of thin lines.

These colored rectangles (boxes) and lines have special qualities and numerous uses.

1. Change the color with

2. Tables, Borders, Lines, Raised 3D Areas/Lines: use single-pixel wide “sliver-sized” colored boxes to draw thin lines, shaded borders, tables, and buttons.  See the tutorials in the Getting Started section for examples.

3. Grouping: make box large enough and then drag images and text into a colored box

4. Hierarchal Grouping: make box large enough and then drag a colored box into of another colored box

5. Linked Moves: move the colored box and all contained children will move in unison

6. To move a colored box, press and drag it.

7. To resize a colored box, press and drag on the corners or sides of it.

The use of boxes and lines is limited only by your imagination.  For more ideas, follow the links to other example web pages by starting at following page of our web site:

http://www.3Dize.com/cpg.html


  Toolbar, Text Box

When this is checked (down), then press and drag the on the background of the web page to draw a rectangle for typing text.

You must draw on the background of web page-- not on another box or image.

1. To type and edit text, click a Text Box twice.

2. To change the Link,  text style (bold, italic, etc.),  text size (8, 10, 12, etc.),  text color [image],  make the change to these on the Toolbar and then begin typing.  Or, first select some text with the mouse, and then make the change to these.

3. To move a text box, click it only once.  Then press and drag it.

4. To resize a text box, click it only once.  Then press and drag on the corners or sides of it.

Keystroke:		Action:
Home		Move cursor to beginning of line
End		Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl + Home		Move cursor to beginning of Text Box
Ctrl + End		Move cursor to end of Text Box
Ctrl + left arrow		Move cursor to beginning of previous word
Ctrl + right arrow		Move cursor to beginning of next word


  Toolbar, Selected Color

Click this to change the color of the selected item.

If you are changing the text color and there is no text selected (none highlighted with mouse), the next text you type will be this color. .  Else, the selected (highlighted)  text is changed immediately.


  Toolbar, Text Size

Click this to change the size of text.

If there is no text selected (none highlighted with mouse), the next text you type will be this size.  Else, the selected (highlighted)  text is changed immediately.

This is the size of the text in points or roughly 1/72 inch.

The choice of sizes is limited to what Internet browsers support.


  Toolbar, Text Face

Click this to change the typeface of text.

If there is no text selected (none highlighted with mouse), the next text you type will be this typeface.  Else, the selected (highlighted)  text is changed immediately.

The choice of typeface is limited to what Internet browsers support.


  Toolbar, Text Styles

Click these to change the style of text.  The options are bold, italic, underline, and strikeout.

If there is no text selected (none highlighted with mouse), the next text you type will be this style.  Else, the selected (highlighted)  text is changed immediately.

The choice of styles are limited to what Internet browsers support.


  Toolbar, Centered Text

Text centered with it's Text Box.

If there is no text selected (none highlighted with mouse), the next text you type will be this style.  Else, the selected (highlighted)  text is changed immediately.

Centered text must appear on a different line than non-centered text, so if you don’t supply a line break (Enter key) before and after center text, COOL Page does it for you.


  Toolbar, Link

Type the address (aka URL) to link the selected item to.

In other words, when the web page is viewed in the Internet browser and the selected item is clicked, the user will be taken to this address.

For creating or changing a text link, text must be selected (highlighted with mouse) before Link will be available.

To link to a location within the same page, use the pound sign (#) followed by the name of the Anchor.  For example, say you give an image the Anchor name of MyImage.  Then here you would type #MyImage.

To link to an external page, use the full address, such as http://www.3Dize.com.

To specify a link that will allow people to send you email.  Select the item (an image or text usually).  Then type mailto:yourname@youraddress.com.  Replace yourname@youraddress.com with your email address.

Note: an item can have a Link or an Anchor assigned but not both.  Link is only available if Anchor is empty.

Note 2: this address can be a file on your local disk, in which case the file is uploaded with the web page on Publish.

See also the Getting Started section for an overview on publishing, linking, multi-page sites, etc..


  Toolbar, Browse...

Sets the Link for the currently selected item to another COOL Page web page that you have already or will Publish to the same web site as yours.   Or, sets the Link for the currently selected item to a file that will be downloaded, played, or viewed when the link is clicked.  Any type of file may be linked to this way, including music, video, Adobe Acrobat documents, spreadsheets, etc..

In other words, links the currently selected object (or highlighted text) to another Cool Page web page or file you chose.

Shows a Windows File dialog box for selecting a Cool Page web page or other file.  In the Windows File dialog box, change the Files of type to see the choices all of the kinds of files you can link to.

File Type Chosen		Link is set to:
COOL Page web page		Name of the COOL Page web page chosen. Note: at Preview, Publish, Export time, the name will be changed to end with Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml).  This is because when COOL Page web pages are Previewed, Published, or Exported, they are uploaded to the Internet (or saved to your local hard disk) with their name changed to end with Page Type (.html, .htm, or .shtml)
Other type of file		The location of the file on your local disk.  This file will be upload with the web page on Publish. This choices creates a link to a file that will be downloaded, played, or viewed when the link is clicked.  Any type of file may be linked to this way, including music, video, Adobe Acrobat documents, spreadsheets, etc..

See also the Getting Started section for an overview on publishing, linking, multi-page sites, etc..


  Toolbar, Anchor

Type to give a name to the selected item.  This name can be used in Link to jump to the selected item.

In other words, when the web page is viewed in the Internet browser and the corresponding Link is clicked, the selected item will appear in the browser.

See Link for more info.

For creating or changing a text anchor, text must be selected (highlighted with mouse) before Anchor will be available.

Note: an item can have a Link or an Anchor assigned but not both.  Anchor is only available if Link is empty.

See also the Getting Started section for an overview on publishing, linking, multi-page sites, etc..


  Toolbar, Window

The target window to open the Link page in.

In other words, when the web page is viewed in the Internet browser and the currently selected object (or highlighted text) is clicked, the Linked page will appear in the following browser window:

new	a new browser window
self	current browser window, in any nested frame, and does not change title of window
top	current browser window, breaks out of any nested frame, and sets title of window
rowXcolY	row X and column Y frame of Frame Set in current browser window and does not change title of window. For example, say you have a button selected (or some text highlighted) in the left frame of a 2 column Frame Set and you wish to Link it to a page such that when the button is clicked (in the browser) then the page will appear in the right frame.  In this case, set Window to row1col2

For creating or changing the target window for text, text must be selected (highlighted with mouse) before Window will be available.

Note: Window is only available if Link contains a period ‘.’ character.  Else, if Link is not empty, Link is assumed to be within current page (to an Anchor) and thus Window is forced to “self”.


Welcome to Cool Page

Please also read the Getting Starting section.

The wizard helps you do popular things that most people want to do when creating a web page.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Welcome dialog box, Create a new empty web page

Creates a new empty web page.

This is nearly the same as choosing New in the File menu, except it adds a few extra steps to make sure you set the basic things needed for a new web page, such as Title and Description.

Note this does not create a new Frame Set.  Please click New Frame Set in File menu if you want to create or find out more about Frame Sets.


Welcome dialog box, Open an existing web page stored on your disk

This is equivalent to Open in the File menu.


Welcome dialog box, Open Tutorial1 example web page (use Undo to replay)

This is equivalent to Open Tutorial 1in the File menu.


Welcome dialog box, Link to page, download, music, video, spreadsheet, or any file, which will be Published to your web site

Creates a Link to a COOL Page web page that you have already or will Publish to the same web site as yours.   Or, creates a Link to a file that will be downloaded, played, or viewed when the link is clicked.  Any type of file may be linked to this way, including music, video, Adobe Acrobat documents, spreadsheets, etc..

This is equivalent to Browse... on the Link Toolbar, except this adds checks and tips to insure you do each step properly.  Once you’ve mastered these steps, it is often more convenient and faster to use Browse... instead.

Browse... shows a Windows File dialog box for selecting the Cool Page web page or other file.  In the Windows File dialog box, change the Files of type to see the choices all of the kinds of files you can link to.


Welcome dialog box, Link to page on other web site

Creates a Link to a web page that already exists on a different web site than yours.

This is equivalent to editing the Link on Link Toolbar directly.  And it adds a step-by-step procedure with many checks and tips to insure the steps are done correctly.


Welcome dialog box, Link so visitor can send you email

Creates a Link so visitor to your web page can send email to the email address of your choice.

This is equivalent to editing the Link on Link Toolbar directly.  And it adds a step-by-step procedure with many checks and tips to insure the steps are done correctly.


Welcome dialog box, Create a new web page and Import an existing image, animation, or text file stored on your disk

Creates a new empty web page.  Then Imports an object into the new page.

The imported object may be any kind of object supported by COOL Page, such as images, animations, text files, sounds, etc..

This is nearly the same as choosing New in the File menu followed by choosing Import in the File menu, except it adds some tips to make sure understand the process.


Welcome dialog box, Don't show this message at startup

Don’t show the Welcome dialog box every time Cool Page is started.

If you uncheck this, you can still access the  by selecting Wizard in the Help menu.


Frame Set Properties

Edit properties of frames of the active Frame Set window.

Please also read the New Frame Set section.

Click an item in the image below to display help about it:


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Row

View and edit properties for frame of this row.

The Frame Properties displayed below are for the frame of this row.


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Column

View and edit properties for frame of this column.

The Frame Properties displayed below are for the frame of this column.


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Default

If checked, the Web Page of the selected frame is the one displayed instead of this Frame Set in very old browsers that don't support Frame Set.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Border

If checked, the selected frame will not have a border when displayed in the browser.  The adjacent frame must also have Border unchecked for there to be no border between the adjacent frames.  And, for there to be no scroll bar at the edge of the frame, either Scrolling must be no or the contents of the frame must not exceed the boundaries of the frame when displayed in the browser.  Take note that the user can resize the browser window, so the only way to guarantee no scroll bar at edge of the frame, is to set Scrolling to no.

Gray line appears in my borderless Frame Set?

	You are linking to a web page on another web site which is itself a Frame Set.  If you don’t want the gray line, link to the frame page contained in a frame of that web page instead. When viewing a web page that contains a a Frame Set, the address shown on the Address (Location) line of the browser, is the address for the entire a Frame Set.  To link to the address of an individual frame, right click the background of the frame and choose “Open ... in new browser window” or something to that effect for your browser.  Then use the address in the Address (Location) line in new browser window.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, a border is always shown.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Visitor Resize

If checked and Border is checked, then the selected frame can be resized by the visitor when viewed in the browser.  The adjacent frame and all frames on the same row (for horizontal border resize) and/or same column (for vertical border resize) must also have Visitor Resize and Border checked for the respective Border to be moveable by the visitor in the browser.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, a border is always shown and the frame is always resizeable.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Scrolling

The type of scrolling allowed for the selected frame:

auto		scroll bars do not appear unless content (objects and text) of the web page exceed the edges of frame
yes		scrolls bars are always shown, even if content does not exceed edges of frame
no		scroll bars are never shown, even if the content exceeds edges of frame and the whole page can not be seen

It is important to test your Frame Sets at different Display sizes, because you may not realize how the scrolling affects your Frame Set, especially at smaller Display sizes such as 640x480 and 800x600.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, the frames are always shown with auto scrolling.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Share Height

If checked, the height of the selected frame is proportional to height of the browser window.

Specifically it is the Proportion of any remaining height after the Height of frames (with Share Height unchecked) are subtracted from the height of the browser window.

In other words, if checked then the selected frame will expand or contract to fill the remaining vertical space in the browser window.  And it will do this by sharing the remaining vertical space proportionally with any other frames that have Share Height checked.  If not checked, then the Height does not change when the browser window size changes.

It is important to test your Frame Sets at different Display sizes, because you may not realize how the sizes of frames are affected, especially at smaller Display sizes such as 640x480 and 800x600.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, the last row and column of frame(s) always expand or contract to fill the COOL Page window.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Share Width

If checked, the width of the selected frame is proportional to width of the browser window.

Specifically it is the Proportion of any remaining width after the Width of frames (with Share Width unchecked) are subtracted from the width of the browser window.

In other words, if checked then the selected frame will expand or contract to fill the remaining horizontal space in the browser window.  And it will do this by sharing the remaining horizontal space proportionally with any other frames that have Share Width checked.  If not checked, then the Width does not change when the browser window size changes.

It is important to test your Frame Sets at different Display sizes, because you may not realize how the sizes of frames are affected, especially at smaller Display sizes such as 640x480 and 800x600.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, the last row and column of frame(s) always expand or contract to fill the COOL Page window.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, (row) Proportion

If Share Height is checked, then the selected frame shares this proportion of any remaining height in browser window.

In other words, a frame with a value or  2  gets twice as much height as a frame with a value of  1

See Share Height for more information.

If Share Height is not checked, then the selected frame uses Height instead of this value.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, the last row and column of frame(s) always expand or contract to fill the COOL Page window.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, (column) Proportion

If Share Width is checked, then the selected frame shares this proportion of any remaining width in browser window.

In other words, a frame with a value or  2  gets twice as much width as a frame with a value of  1

See Share Width for more information.

If Share Width is not checked, then the selected frame uses Width instead of this value.

Note: while editing in COOL Page, the last row and column of frame(s) always expand or contract to fill the COOL Page window.  Please view the Frame Set in the browser using Preview to observe the result of changing this setting.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Width

If Share Width is not checked, then this is the width of the selected frame.

If Share Width is checked, then this value is not used, and instead Proportion is used to determine the selected frame‘s width.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Height

If Share Height is not checked, then this is the height of the selected frame.

If Share Height is checked, then this value is not used, and instead Proportion is used to determine the selected frame‘s height.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Web Page (file)

The COOL Page file on your hard disk that is the web page displayed within the selected frame.

By changing this, you can see and edit other COOL Page web pages in the selected frame.  This is important because you may have links that when clicked in the browser will load different Cool Page web pages into the selected frame.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column


Frame Set Properties dialog box, Frame, Browse... (for web page file)

Click this to change the Web Page for the selected frame.

The selected frame is the frame of current Row and Column