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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Web Style 1.0 Help</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 1.1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table width=100%> <tr><td align=right valign=top rowspan=2 width=15%><img src="WS.gif" align=middle width=104 height=93></td><td valign=bottom width=80%><h1>Web Style 1.0 </h1> </td></tr> <tr><td width=80%>Copyright © 1996 by Daniel Eng</td></tr> </table> <h1>Contents</h1> <table width=100%> <tr><td width=30%><ul> <li><h2><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td><td width=50%><ul> <li><h2><a href="wsrefer.htm">Web Style Reference</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td></tr> <tr><td width=30%><ul> <li><h2><a href="#Features">Features</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td><td width=50%><ul> <li><h2><a href="#Registration Information">Registration Information</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td></tr> <tr><td width=30%><ul> <li><h2><a href="#Requirements">Requirements</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td><td width=50%><ul> <li><h2><a href="#Frequently Asked Questions">Frequently Asked Questions</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td></tr> <tr><td width=30%><ul> <li><h2><a href="#Quick Start">Quick Start</a> </h2> </li> </ul> </td><td width=50%> </td></tr> </table> <h1><a name="Contact">Contact</a></h1> If you have have questions, suggestions, or comments, please send them to: <blockquote> daneng@netrunner.net </blockquote> For latest release information and product updates, visit the product site at: <blockquote> http://www.netrunner.net/~daneng/webstyle.htm </blockquote> <hr> <h1><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h1> Web Style is the easiest web styling program available! Now you can create and apply different user-defined styles for your web site in a matter of minutes. If you decide to change the style for your site, simply change the style settings and re-apply it across the web site. This will ensure that all your pages will have the same look and feel. You can also do global searches and replaces and well as convert existing text files into HTML pages. Web Style is ideal for web administrators and web authors who need to quickly make changes across hundreds of web pages. <hr> <h1><a name="Features">Features</a></h1> <h2>With Web Style, you can easily: </h2> <ul> <li><h3>Create and manage multiple styles </h3> In Web Style, a style is defined as a group of attributes that can be applied to multiple web pages. A style consist of header information, footer information, background color and image, text colors, and link colors. Once a style is defined, it can be applied and managed. Web pages can also have multiple styles applied to them, and each style can be removed without affecting other defined styles. </li> <li><h3>Apply multiple headers and footers </h3> Web pages can have a style defined to include multiple headers and footers. This is especially useful when you need to define headers and subheaders as well as footers and subfooters. For instance, a header may be your logo for the site and a subheader may consist of a navagation bar for a particular subsection of your web site. A footer can be your copyright information while a subfooter can contain points of interests and other links. </li> <li><h3>Apply background color, images, text and link colors </h3> Sometimes when you have a document converted or imported from other authors, you may want to maintain a consistent look and feel of the site, such as background color, images, and links. By setting up a style with a standard look and feel, this can be applied across the site. If you want to maintain any pre-defined background, text, and link settings and not overwrite them, that can be accomplished also. </li> <li><h3>Perform global search and replace </h3> This is a very common feature used to search for particular matches and peform and optional replace. This can be done for the whole site or selective pages from your site. </li> <li><h3>Convert text to HTML pages </h3> If you have plain text files that you wish to convert into an HTML format, simply select those text files and apply the conversion to them. Then you can apply the style of your choice to give a consistent look and feel. </li> <li><h3>Preview before and after conversions </h3> Rather than converting all your web pages to a selected style, you can preview the changes on a page before committing the changes. A preview panel displays how the HTML document would look like and also how the page appears in your browser of choice. </li> <li><h3>Use on existing web pages </h3> Unlike other sophisticated web designing tools, which sometimes requires you to convert your existing pages into a proprietary format, Web Style uses your existing web pages without any special importing or conversion steps. This ensures that you can immediately start using Web Style and not worry about fixing up your web pages in a proprietary format. </li> <li><h3>Automatic color selection </h3> Even if you do not use Web Style for applying styles, you can still use it to find the equivalent hexidecimal code for a selected color from a color dialog box. No need to memorize or lookup color codes. </li> <li><h3>Create styles from existing pages </h3> If you already have a style that you use in your site, you can save your existing style as an HTML document and apply it automatically to new web pages. This saves you time in designing new styles manually. </li> <li><h3>Remove styles from selected pages </h3> If you decide to remove a style, or portions of a style, simply select the style for removal and the options to remove in that style, and apply across it to all the selected pages in your web site. </li> <li><h3>Restore and backup selected pages </h3> After a committed conversion takes place, say across 100 web pages, you decided that the style is not as what you expected. You can easily restore the previous conversion with just a click of the Restore button. No need to worry about manually going in to undo the changes. (Just make sure you create a backup first). </li> <li><h3>Save multiple Web Style configurations </h3> If you happen to be a webmaster or web administrator with hundreds of users, customers, or departments to support, you can save a Web Style Configuration for each picky individual or group. Each configuration contains the web site search path, default browser and backup areas, and up to ten different styles. </li> </ul> <hr> <h1><a name="Requirements">Requirements</a></h1> <h3>The following is the minimum requirements to use Web Style 1.0:</h3> <ul> <li><h3>486/66 PC (Pentium preferred) </h3> </li> <li><h3>8 MB of RAM (16 MB preferred) </h3> </li> <li><h3>Windows 95/NT </h3> </li> <li><h3>5 MB of disk space </h3> </li> <li><h3>A web browser (MS IE or Netscape Navigator preferred) </h3> </li> </ul> <hr> <h1><a name="Quick Start">Quick Start</a></h1> Web Style takes only a few minutes to setup before it can be used effectively. <h3>These are the basic steps to get started: </h3> <h3>To Apply Styles</h3> 1. Select File -> New to create a new configuation file to store style settings. 2. Select Defaults to choose a default browser and backup area. 3. Enter your web site directory in the search path field. Choose to include subfolders if desired. (It is recommended you use a sample or a copy of your web site directory for practice). 4. To list HTML files with the htm or html extension, choose HTML, otherwise choose TEXT to list files with the txt extenstion. 5. Select the Style option and click Details to define the style settings. 6. Click the New button and enter a style name to create a new style.. 7. To apply a header, you can either <blockquote> 7.1 Create a New Header File <ul> <li>Enter a header filename including the path, hit enter, and answer Yes to create the new file.</li> <li>Enter in plain text or HTML code in the header text box.</li> <li>Click the header save button and be sure to check the header check box.</li> </ul> 7.2 Or, Select an Existing Header File <ul> <li>Choose an existing plain text or HTML file by clicking the "..." button in the header line.</li> <li>Be sure to check the header check box.</li> </ul> </blockquote> 8. Check the applicable background options, text and link colors and apply. <blockquote> 8.1 For a Background Image, enter the URL path for the image. For example, if the image "logo.gif" is in a subdirectory called "images", enter images/logo.gif. </blockquote> 9. Perform the same steps for the Footer information as you did for the header information. 10. Click OK when you finish defining the style. 11. To Preview, select a file from the search list box on the left to preview the current file in the preview panel. 12. Click the Preview a File button to see how the file looks after the conversion. Click the blue button on the right of the converted text to view it in the default browser. 13. If satisfied, select the desired files from the Search List Box on the left to put them to the Selected List Box on the right. 14. Click the Convert Selected Files button to convert the selected files. 15. Make a backup of the selected files if you prefer. 16. If you are not satisfied with the conversion, click the Restore button to revert the changes. 17. To save the Web Style Configuration, click Save and select a configuration filename. <h3>To Search and Replace</h3> 1. Select Defaults to choose a default browser and backup area. 2. Enter your web site directory in the search path field. Choose to include subfolders if desired. (It is recommended you use a sample or a copy of your web site directory for practice). 3. To list HTML files with the htm or html extension, choose HTML, otherwise choose TEXT to list files with the txt extension. 4. Select the Search and Replace Option and click Details. 5. Enter the search text in the Search Box. 6. Check the Replace With check box and enter text to replace with if you want to replace the search text. 7. Click OK to return to the Web Style main screen. 8. To Preview, select a file from the search list box on the left to preview the current file in the preview panel. 9. Click the Preview a File button to see how the file looks after the conversion. Click the blue button on the right of the converted text to view it in the default browser. 10. If satisfied, select the desired files from the Search List Box on the left to put them to the Selected List Box on the right. 11. Click the Convert Selected Files button to convert the selected files. 12. Make a backup of the selected files if you prefer. 13. If you are not satisfied with the conversion, click the Restore button to revert the changes. <h3>To Convert Text to HTML</h3> 1. Select Defaults to choose a default browser and backup area. 2. Enter your directory in the search path field. Choose to include subfolders if desired. (It is recommended you use a sample or a copy of your web site directory for practice). 3. Choose the TEXT option to list files with the txt extension. 4. Select the Text to HTML Option. 5. To Preview, select a file from the search list box on the left to preview the current file in the preview panel. 6. Click the Preview a File button to see how the file looks after the conversion. Click the blue button on the right of the converted text to view it in the default browser. 7. If satisfied, select the desired files from the Search List Box on the left to put them to the Selected List Box on the right. 8. Click the Convert Selected Files button to convert the selected files. 9. Make a backup of the selected files if you prefer. 10. If you are not satisfied with the conversion, click the Restore button to revert the changes. <hr> <h1><a name="Registration Information">Registration Information</a></h1> <h4>Please print out and send your <a href="register.htm">Registration Form</a> with an enclosed payment of only $29 (USD) for each copy of Web Style.</h4> <h4>Send your Registration Form addressed to:</h4> <blockquote> <address>Daniel Eng</address> <address>2955 SW 22nd Ave #205</address> <address>Delray Beach, FL 33445</address> </blockquote> Your registration entitles you to the Following: <ul> <li>Up to 300 selected files for conversion </li> <li>Free minor upgrades for one year from registration date </li> <li>E-mail support for one year from registration date </li> <li>Discounts on all future full releases and other new products </li> <li>Elimination of the initial unregistered display screen </li> </ul> You must register your copy of the Web Style if you use it beyond the 30-day evaluation period. <hr> <h1><a name="Frequently Asked Questions">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h1> Web Style is designed to be a powerful utility to complement HTML editors and site management tools. Here are some common questions asked about Web Style: What can I use Web Style for? You can use Web Style to apply common headers, footers, background colors, images, text colors and link colors to the pages selected in your web site. You can also use Web Style to search and replace any text globally in your web site. There is also a text to HTML converter if you want to convert plain text files into HTML pages. Some typical uses include, managing company-wide web sites that require a standard look and feel, corporate Intranets where each style can represent a department look and feel, making quick changes that appear in multiple pages such as copyright information, logos, navigation bars, and address information, and converting hundreds of existing text files into HTML format and applying a pre-defined standard look and feel style to them. Who is this tool designed for? Web Style is designed mainly for web authors, web administrators, and content providers who have a lot of web pages to maintain where it is not feasible to manually make changes across a web site. It is also designed to work with existing web pages as opposed to using proprietary formats, and not limit authors to what they can or cannot put in their web pages. Is Web Style limited to a specific level of HTML? No. Web Style is designed not to conform to any level of HTML, browser, or programming languages such as Javascript or Java. It can be used to apply styles to any level of HTML as long as the author creates styles that adhere to the HTML level of choice. Will Web Style interfere with my web authoring tools? No. Tags created by Web Style are all commented out based on HTML standards. It is specifically designed to be interpreted by Web Style. There may be a remote possibility that your authoring tool might parse commented fields but the syntax created by Web Style is not designed for use by any other authoring tools. How long does it take to convert my web pages? Depending on the size of each web page, and the number of web pages to convert, and your computer power, it takes from seconds to 2-3 minutes to convert 100 files of 15k bytes each. This is considerably less time than it would take to manually convert these files or spending the time importing existing pages into a propriertary software package. I have converted over 100 files and it is not what I expected. What should I do now? First of all, always make a backup of your work before you start. Additionally, Web Style offers a backup feature that allows you to backup all the selected files for conversion prior to the actual conversion. Once you completed the conversion, check the results with your default browser immediately to ensure that the changes are correct. If not, simply hit the restore button to revert the changes. If you haven't made a backup or selected the backup option prior to the conversion, you're not totally out of luck. Depending on what you applied, you can still use the Search and Replace option to remove or change the styles you just applied. Just define the settings in the Search and Replace details area. Remember to make a backup this time! What is the difference between Web Style and Cascaded Style Sheets and other styling standards? Technically in Web Style, a style is defined as a collection of attributes grouped together and applied across selected pages in a web site. These attributes include header files, footer files, and background image, colors, text and link color attributes. CSS and other styling standards are designed to be interpreted specifically by their intended web browsers. They are also more related to content layout and font settings which, again, are only intended for certain web browsers to interpret correctly. Web Style settings are not mutually exclusive with other styling standards. In other words, they can be used together. Do you have any plans for a Professional Edition? It depends on the responses that I receive. Some of the professional features may include adding automated navigation toolbars for pages such as next, previous, and table of contents buttons. There may be more styling attributes. Another feature may include creating various style-like directory listings based on selected file listings. This is meant for servers that show plain directory trees when users browse a certain directory listing via a web browser. There may also be more detailed settings for text to HTML conversions. Why is there not a WYSIWYG previewer? Since Web Style is designed not to conform to any level of HTML, and the fact that not all styles are necessarily HTML coding (it is up to the web author to determine what content is in his style settings), a WYSIWYG previewer may not always function as expected. A web author may be designing web pages for a specific browser or HTML level which can be set as the default browser to preview those pages. This ensures that the actual result of the conversions will appear as they expected. Is there a limit to the number of styles or files I can convert? You can define up to 10 different styles per Web Style Configuration and allow up to 300 selected files at a time for the registered version. How much does Web Style cost? Only $29 (USD) for each copy. There are also Corporate discounts available. See the <a href="#Registration Information">Registration</a> section for more details. Where can I find the latest release of Web Style? Check the <a href="#Contact">Contact</a> section to find out more information. </body> </html>