User manual SERIF WEBPLUS 6

[. . . ] No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of Serif, Inc. Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. & Paul Harris Portions clipart and graphic content ©1999 Nova Development Corporation and its licensors. & Eastman Kodak Company & INSO Corporation & LEAD Technologies, Inc. [. . . ] For now, type a few phrases--we'll return to this new frame in a moment. Select the Pointer tool, and you'll see handles around the text you've just entered. (Notice that the borders of the enclosing frame are not selected. ) The selected block looks a lot like a block of free text, except that it's contained in a frame. And that's an accurate observation, as our next experiment will show. . . Click the block of free text you created and drag it over this new text frame. When you drag over the text block inside the frame, you'll see the block highlight and the Flow cursor appear. Drop the text block and it will be inserted into the text frame below the original block. You can drop free text into a frame, and place it before or after an existing block. Watch the arrow on the Flow cursor to see where the text will go--either above or below the highlighted block. (Hold down the F2 key to toggle the action. ) Text drops before block Text drops after block Now hold down the Ctrl key and select the block you've just dropped into the frame. This time the COPY cursor appears, and you can drag the block copy out onto the pasteboard, and drop it-- note that it becomes free text again! Working with Text 31 At this point, you might take some time to experiment with creating more free and frame text objects. Remember that to select, move, or resize a text object, you should use the Pointer tool. The Text tool is reserved for editing the text contained in the box--not the box itself. Editing text Web Plus lets you edit text directly on the page, or with WritePlus, the built-in text editor. Click the button to select the Text tool. The Text tool displays an I-beam cursor that lets you click in any freeor frame-text paragraph for an insertion point. You can type into the paragraph, drag to select characters, and use the formatting controls on the top toolbar. Use the Pointer tool to select an individual paragraph (as a separate text block) and carry out operations on the whole paragraph. Click in a sample block of free text, then try changing the font and pointsize of its text using the controls on the top toolbar. If you like, try clicking the Studio's Text panel and using it to alter the font by dragging a font name onto a block of text. Now double-click the "Here's the place" frame on the page. You can move the mouse pointer around the window to view tooltips and hint text for the various buttons. Writing and proofing aids include Find and Replace, Spelling Checker, AutoSpell, Thesaurus, and AutoCorrect. Note that the text in this frame is simply a placeholder for the text you'll be adding. You can type over the sample text, or select it all, delete, and begin with an empty frame, as you wish. 32 Working with Text To update WebPlus with your changes, click the button. [. . . ] Use a "Web-safe palette" when possible; you'll find one in the WebPlus Samples folder. You may wish to explore the Web for details on this and other Web design strategies. You'll need to maintain the pages on your Web site, which isn't difficult with WebPlus--all the originals are right there in your publication!As a reference, keep a list showing the page numbers and the contents of each page. [. . . ]