WebEdit PRO Setup Welcome screen
Every page you see on the World Wide Web began as a humble text file. What makes it look special on the Web is HTML—Hypertext Markup Language, a system of page-markup "tags" that control how Web browsers display everything you see in a Web document: text, graphics, tables, frames, animations, and most important of all, links to other documents. (If you have any familiarity with SGML—Standard Generalized Markup language, from which HTML is derived—you are already know many basic HTML concepts.)
Luckman’s WebEdit PRO 3.0 is a full-featured, professional HTML document authoring and editing tool, yet it is extremely easy to use. Your source document is always visible for convenience and control, and you can immediately see the effects of any changes in the HTML document using WebEdit PRO’s Quick Preview window.
This user’s guide explains how to get started using WebEdit PRO to create and edit HTML documents. It also gets you started using the built-in tools and wizards that make advanced HTML features such as frames, tables, and forms simple and quick to create. A complete WebEdit PRO reference is included in the online Help, which you should refer to first when you have a question that is not addressed in this book.
While it is beyond the scope of this user’s guide to present a comprehensive introduction to HTML, WebEdit PRO’s online Help includes a complete HTML reference through the official 3.2 version, plus Netscape and Internet Explorer extensions (through their versions 4.0).
At the end of this user’s guide you will find a basic introduction to HTML and a summary of the most common HTML tags, along with the Web addresses of additional HTML references and tutorials. HTML is constantly evolving, and the Web is the perfect resource for keeping up to date on official HTML standards, proposed standards, discussions, and authoring tips.
WebEdit PRO offers you the following powerful features. (New and enhanced features in version 3.0 are called out in the margin.)
• Unlimited number and size of documents — WebEdit PRO's rich interface lets you work on an unlimited number of HTML documents simultaneously. The size of each document is limited only by your computer's memory.
• HTML dialogs — WebEdit PRO has specially designed dialog boxes for defining anchors and links (hyperlinks), inline images, figures, forms, tables, etc., including a URL Builder for rapid creation of Uniform Resource Locators. Additionally, WebEdit PRO saves every URL you enter, letting you choose from a list rather than retyping the same URLs over and over.
• Quick Previewer — WebEdit PRO's Quick Preview utility is a quick and easy way to preview your HTML documents. It supports all HTML 2.0 tags plus Forms, Tables, ActiveX controls and Java. You can optionally choose to use Internet Explorer Add-on modules — WebEdit PRO includes the following add-on modules:
- WYSIWYG Frame Wizard
- WYSIWYG Form Designer
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version 3.2 is available, including such as citation, code, and defining instance.
• Font Formatting tags — Blinking text, bold, italics, underlining, typewriter text, font sizing, etc. It's all in here.
• List formatting tags — Select a block of text and choose Numbered List or Un-numbered List, and WebEdit PRO automatically inserts list-item tags on each line. Definition lists and directory lists are included.
• filename in the User-Defined Tags dialog tells WebEdit PRO to insert the contents of the file into the current document.
• Non-standard tags and attributes — WebEdit PRO includes support for non-standard tags and attributes, such as those recognized by Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. These tags and attributes are ignored by other browsers, but are included in WebEdit PRO in case you need them.
• HTML removal — WebEdit PRO lets you quickly and easily remove HTML tags from any document or portion of a document. Simply highlight the text from which to remove HTML tags, and click the Remove HTML Tags button.
• files into projects and then load all of those files with the click of a button!
Regardless of how you format your Web documents, keep in mind that pages may display differently on different computers using different Web browsers. For example, fonts will generally be based on the fonts used by the browser, not by the HTML document. Additionally, HTML text automatically conforms to the size of the browser window. Finally, bear in mind that not all browsers can interpret every available HTML element.
Therefore, when designing your documents, limit your fonts to the more popular font families (e.g., Times, Helvetica, Courier, and so on) and design your documents with your users in mind. If you have several browsers installed on your system, WebEdit PRO lets you easily view any document you create in any of the available browsers, so that you can test how it will display.
When creating a new document from scratch, it is usually more efficient to enter the text of your document first, and then add the desired HTML markup tags to the document. For the more complex elements such as forms, frames, and tables, WebEdit PRO includes tools and wizards that lead you step-by-step through entering the necessary information and then automatically generate the appropriate HTML.
If you require assistance, you may contact Luckman Interactive’s Technical Support Team as follows:
Voice (213) 614-1758
Fax (213) 614-1929
E-Mail support@luckman.com
Technical Support hours are 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday.
When calling Technical Support, please have your product registration number handy and be at your computer, so that we can get you up and running quickly.
Chapter 1
Installing WebEdit PRO
Installing WebEdit PRO is a straightforward and simple process. An advanced setup program automates the often confusing and time consuming aspects of installing new software. By following the
detailed step-by-step screen prompts, you will be ready to create your Web site content in a very short time.
This chapter helps you install WebEdit PRO onto your computer. It contains the following information and procedures:
• Hardware requirements
• Software requirements
• Installation and electronic registration procedures
• Creating a product report
Once you complete the installation and registration process, you will be ready to create your Web documents and content, taking full advantage of all that this exciting technology has to offer.
The following hardware requirements represent the minimum
configuration that is supported by WebEdit PRO:
• 486 or later IBM PC or compatible computer
• 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended)
• Hard disk with at least 7 MB free space for a full installation
• Double-speed CD-ROM
The following software must be installed on your computer in order to run WebEdit PRO:
• Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.5.1 or later
You should not be running any other application during the installation of WebEdit PRO. Additionally, it is always good policy to backup your computer before installing any new software package, including this one.
To install WebEdit PRO:
1 Insert the WebEdit PRO CD into your computer’s CD drive.
If you are running Windows 95, the WebEdit PRO Setup Welcome dialog automatically displays (unless you have disabled the CD Notification option in Windows 95.)
If you are running Windows NT, or if you have disabled CD Notification in Windows 95:
Choose the Run command from the File menu (or from the Start button). In the Run dialog, type x:\setup.exe (x is your CD drive letter).
The Setup Welcome screen displays:
WebEdit PRO Setup Welcome screen
Be sure you are not running any other Windows applications during the installation process. If you are, click Cancel, close the running application(s) and begin again with Step 1.
2 Click Next.
The Registration dialog displays:
Registration dialog
3 Type your name, company name, as desired, and your WebEdit PRO serial number. The serial number is printed on your CD package or Registration Card.
4 Click Next.
The Registration Confirmation dialog displays:
5 If the information is correct, click Yes. If it is incorrect, click No and repeat the installation process.
The Choose Destination Location dialog displays:
6 This dialog allows you to select where you want to copy the WebEdit PRO files. Accept the default location C:\Program Files\
WebEdit\, or click Browse to select another location.
7 Click Next.
The Select Program Folder dialog displays:
8 This dialog allows you to specify the folder in which to install the WebEdit PRO files. The default folder is Luckman Interactive. After making a selection, or entering a new folder name, click Next.
The WebEdit PRO files are installed on your computer.
9 If the Setup program detects Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 (or later) on your system, you are asked if you want to use it as
WebEdit PRO’s internal HTML previewer.
Select Yes or No. WebEdit PRO’s default internal HTML previewer is compliant with HTML 2.0, and in addition can display forms, tables, ActiveX controls and Java applets. If you choose Internet Explorer as the internal HTML previewer, you will be able to properly previewer some more recent HTML elements that the default previewer does not support.
10 Click Yes to open the Readme file, or No to close the dialog.
The WebEdit PRO folder displays:
You are now ready to use WebEdit PRO.
The next chapter tells you how to start WebEdit PRO and provides a guided tour of WebEdit PRO’s main window, menus, toolbars, and Quick Preview features.
To uninstall WebEdit PRO, choose Uninstall WebEdit PRO from the Start menu’s WebEdit PRO program group or from the WebEdit PRO program folder.
In this chapter you will learn how to launch WebEdit PRO; tour the main window, menus and toolbars; and learn how to exit the program.
To start WebEdit Pro:
1 Click the Start button, then choose Programs, WebEdit30, Luckman’s WebEdit PRO. The WebEdit PRO main window displays.
The main window is a standard Windows 95 application window, containing a menu bar, toolbars, control menu, and status bar. You can move the window on your desktop, re-size it, minimize, or maximize it. Each time you start WebEdit PRO, a new, empty document is opened by default, and the Quick Preview window is turned off.
Once you start entering the contents of an HTML document, you can check how the document is likely to appear when displayed in a browser by opening the
Quick Preview window. Click the "lightning bolt" button on the document toolbar to toggle the Quick Preview window on and off.
You can open as many documents as you like, and switch between them by clicking on the tabs at the top of the document area. You can also use the shortcut key Ctrl-Tab to switch between documents.
Additionally, the width of the document and Quick Preview windows may be adjusted using the vertical "splitter bar" just to the right of the up/down scroll bar. Just drag the vertical splitter bar left or right.
By default, the quick previewer only displays in the right half of the document window. If you prefer to use the full window for previewing, choose Configure from the Options menu and choose Full Screen Preview on the Previewer tab. In this mode, you can use the quick previewer button to toggle between editing and display.
WebEdit PRO’s default Quick Preview window is HTML 2.0-compliant, but it can also display tables, forms, ActiveX controls and Java applets. However, you may set up WebEdit Pro to use Internet Explorer as your default Quick Preview browser.
You will find a complete HTML reference, through version 3.2, in WebEdit PRO’s online Help. Each tag and attribute is clearly marked with the earliest HTML version that supports it. In addition, tags that are browser-specific (namely Netscape- and Microsoft Internet Explorer-specific extensions to HTML) are clearly indicated as such.
When displayed without a document loaded, the menu bar shows only the File and Help menus. Once you load a document into the main menu, additional menu options and commands are displayed.