Dear Web-It! User,
Welcome to the 32 bit version of Web-It! 2.0.
Whether your a new user or an existing Web-It! user you will want to take a look at many of the new features that have been added:
Hot New Features:
- Project Management
Keep all your sites in their own project directory.
- Table Wize Guy(Ctl-T)
Create your table on the fly without writing one piece of HTML Code! Change colors, add/remove cells and much much more.
- Data Form Wize Guy(Ctl-F)
Create Forms with the click of a button.
- Awesome Text Editor
The new editor has syntax highlighting, search/replace, undo/redo along with full color customization and many other user friendly features.
- Internal Viewer
Internal viewer now supports image maps, sizeable and floating images, color tables and much more. Now you can highlight text in the viewer and search the source for its location.
- Tabbed Notebook Button Bar
This loaded button bar gives you tons of features and allows you to add even more with 4 customizable pages.
- Instant Access to your images
Use the tool bar Image Page to have instant access to your most often used images. Select from tiles, buttons, lines and more...
- Use of Image Themes
Easy to select themes gives your page that instant flash it deserves.
- Other Cool features:
- Easy to use dialog box to edit all of your pages BODY attributes and one time!
- Licensed an agreement to allow you to add a Safesurf Rating to your page without having to go online!
- Auto Update feature returns due to overwhelming demand!
- Customizeable Menu items.
- Handy Clipboard always at your side.
- Insert tags with prefilled alignment properties.
- Text Rainbowizer! Create cool and interesting effects with colors!
- The project window, editor windows and internal HTML Viewer all have popup menus. Click on the right mouse button to activate these menus.
- There is a project window to the left. If you right click on the project window a popup menu will appear allowing you to create/modify a project or a page. You may also access the Project features thru the main menu 'Projects'. If you highlight a page and right click you can select the view option and the page will be displayed in the viewer without having to open it in the editor.
Projects allow you to keep separate directories for your websites. Each project is basically seperate subdirectory directory beneath the directory where you installed Web-It!. All the pages added to a project are stored in this subdirectory along with associated images.
When you create a project and are prompted for the directory, do not add any drive information. Only standard directory names are accepted.
- The editor is new also. Color sytax highlighting, full search/replace, undo/redo and many other things. You may now also open multiple documents at the same time and switch the view by clicking on the appropriate tab. Watch the title bar or status bar to find out which directory the file you are working on is located in.
- There is an internal Clipboard as well. It appears to the right of the screen and can be used to put text that you wish to save for later use without having to open a NEW document. This clipboard is saved/loaded on exit/entry to Web-It!.
PROJECT WINDOW NOTES:
- If you double click on a page it loads it into the editor. For some reason, on some systems the dragging doesn't always turn off so if click again in your document it will put a link to it in itself.
- If during the above situation you are dragging and click in a different folder the file will be moved to that folder so be sure to cancel the drag by clicking somewhere where the 'no drop' cursor appears. Thats the circle with a line through it.
EDITOR NOTES:
- In order to start you have to select FILE|NEW or open an existing file. The editor and button notebook are disabled unless there is a document loaded. You you choose not to use the Projects feature(which is part of the Professional Edition) then everything works through the File|Open menu.
- You can not open the same document twice if it is a project file. You can do so by using File|Open though.
- If you drag a file from the project window over to the editor it will create a link tag to that file.
- You can change the editor font options and it will also change the project notebook as well. The colors for the tag highlighting and text selection are adjustable as well.
- You can drag files from the desktop or Windows Explorer and drop them onto Web-It! and they will open up for editing.
VIEWER NOTES:
- If you have a page in the editor and it is displayed in the viewer you can select text in the viewer and then right click on the view and select 'Search Source' to find that occurance in the editor. To repeat the same search hit the F3 key.
- The viewer supports many more things, floating and sizable images, colored tables, transparent gifs.
BUTTON NOTEBOOK NOTES:
- There are several buttons that have a down arrow on them, this will popup a list of the possible outputs for the tag to its right.
- Under the Options|Customize Buttons menu you can add up to four pages of customized buttons. Use the Options|General Preferences to Hide/Display them.
Web-It! GENERAL NOTES:
- The autoupdate feature was removed in the first BETA, about 90% of our tech support was because this feature caused certain systems to crash. Many users wanted this feature put back in so we did. Look in the 'Options|General Preferences' dialog. A warning statement appears when this option is turned on.
- At the bottom of the 'HTML CODES' menu is an option to modify menu tags. This feature will let you change the top three menu items that appear under this menu. The format must be: TAG - DESCRIPTION In other words there must be a SPACE followed by a DASH for the tag to work. The DESCRIPTION is optional but it will allow you to actually know what the code is for.
- Under the INSERT menu there are new Table and Data Entry wize guys, be sure to give them a whirl.
- The EDIT BODY menu option does work now. It will insert anything you selected in the dialog into your page as a new body tag.
- If you save the NEWPAGE.HTM file, the next time you create a new page it will use that one as the default.
Best regards and happy authoring,
Lincoln Beach Software
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