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INDEX Page 5 Head Elements Space down How to insert an SWF Flash file into my site? How to improve my success with Search Engines? Adding a FLV flash video into my site? =========================================== Page 6 I want the site to automatically adjust to the size of the browser window. Here is some information on sizing of fonts Creating Bookmarks =========================================== Page 7 I-frames Make the same piece of background audio play throughout my site. When I add new links to my site they open in a new window. Why is this occurring? ============================================ Page 8 can I make a link to a page of my own site open in new window? Add a drop down box with sub fields to click on to send visitors to a specific page. How do I add a video to my website? ============================================== Page 9 I have a script I need to put between the <head> and </head>. Have created a website and inside the frame menu are drop down boxes that link to other pages in the document. The drop down selections open within the frame in place of the menu. How can I direct my drop down selections to open another page and retain the menu frame? =============================================== Page 10 Use a drop-down box to link to other web sites? Use Java applets in my site? ================================================ Page 11 To add custom HTML code at a specific location within your page: ================================================== Page 12 The Keywords List How do I make my own re-usable objects that I can include in my web sites? =================================================== Page 13 Objects ================================================== Page 15 Web Easy Professional crashes unexpectedly at random times. Is there a fix for this? =================================================== Page 18 Open Window no features Timed Banner Image Swapper Scrolling Text script =================================================== Page 20, 21 Page Size Page Size CSS POP UP Window CSA Object Events ===================================================

INDEX Page 22 Make a link that opens a new browser window of a particular size, without toolbars or menus? How can I make a link to a page of my own site open in new window? ================================================ Page 23 Build with CSS and still be able to change each page's size according to it's content. How do I add custom HTML or JavaScript code to my web page? ================================================= Page 27 How do I add a "search" function to my site? ================================================== Page 28 How do I use a visitor counter on my Web Site in Web Easy? How do I make a link that opens a new browser window of a particular size, without toolbars or menus? ======================================================= Page 29 How can I make a link to a page of my own site open in new window? Would like to add an Adobe Acrobat file to my website. How do I attach my pdf file. ======================================================= Page 30 Even though the size of all the text items on my page is the same in Web Easy, they appear in different sizes in my web browser. How can I fix this? How do I change my website so the background stay's still while the content on the page seems to float as you scroll? How do I save a copy of my web site to a CD? ======================================================== Page 31 My website host provider insists that all my pages be saved with.html extensions, not.htm. Is there a way to change this in WebEasy so the pages I build have.html extensions? How do I attach an MP3 audio file to an object in Web Easy? To create an Audio Link:. ========================================================== Page 32 I have a form on my website that people submit inquires through. How do I have "web_site_inquiry" appear in the subject line of the emails I receive? How do I make a "slide show" so that my photos appear one after another, in the same place on the page? ============================================================ Page 33 I want to setup a standard form that will allow users to email me the form information. How do I set this up to send to my email address? How can I make text in my web site look exactly the same in all browsers, including fonts and effects like drop shadows? ============================================================= Page 34 Is there a way to create a drop-down menu to link to other websites? How do I create a background image that does not "tile" in Web Easy? How do I add ALT attributes to the images in my site? ===============================================================

INDEX Page 35 How do I add ALT attributes to the images in my site? When some viewers visit my website, the fonts are larger and the page is distorted. what can I do to correct this as-html> Would like to make my website a secure page, https. Can I do this with WebEasy? ================================================= Page 36 How do I link two or more Web Easy documents together? How can I direct my drop down selections to open another page and retain the menu frame? What E-Commerce functionality is provided by Web Easy Professional and how do I use it? ================================================== Page 37 How do I add extra lines to the order form included with Web Easy Professional? I want to create a link in the middle of an image on my website. I do not want the entire image to be linked, just one portion. Is there a way to create this hot spot or image map in WebEasy? =================================================== Page 38 I am trying to create a link from a word of text contained in a paragraph. I try but it will only create the link to the entire paragraph. ===================================================

Head Elements Space down add a < br > line break code into the HEAD section in WE, this will make the main page area space down one line, or two if you add two line breaks, that will make the black page background be seen above the page, I like that effect, I've never liked a page to be all the way to the top of the page, I like a border effect that the line break gives you. How do I insert an SWF Flash file into my site? answer Go to Insert > Object > Objects > Flash Press ok Click to locate the SWF video file on your site Right click the player and select 'Link' In the Embedded Link field, edit this to point to your own.swf file To adjust size: Right click the player Choose link Select 'Player Properties' From here you can adjust size, loop, play automatically, as well as other setting. How can I improve my success with Search Engines? General practices to follow are: Write good, quality text on your web pages about the topics and keywords that you are trying to attract in visitors and search engines. Generally, the more text content the better - but remember not to overdo this too much as you may distract visitors from your web site. Use relevant keywords regularly in your text content so that the keyword density on a page is high. Do not overdo this. Use relevant keywords in your headings. Do not overdo this. Use relevant keywords in bold or italic text. Do not overdo this. Fill in the title, author, description and keywords for each page in your web site. See Advanced building options for CSS Sites in WebEasy help. Fill in the Html Title and Alternative Text (ALT) to all images and form fields items on all web pages to have a text representation of the visual content. Fill in the Custom Tag to the text items that may reflect better meaning of the text, for example headings (1..6), Code or Address. Create a sitemap for your web site so that all pages are linked and can be found by search engines. Add a link to the sitemap on your web site's homepage to ensure that search engines find all your pages. Make sure the text items are not overlapped by other items on the page. When building with Simple HTML, text items can be transformed into images if they overlap with other items. Request/exchange links from other web sites on the internet to your web site so that your site becomes more popular and better known. Submit your web site to as many search engines and directories as you can. for example, submit your site to www.dmoz.org. This is a human-edited directory, and is used by search engines. With any of the above options, it can take weeks or months before your web site is listed in search engines or starts to get good results in search engine queries. You may find it useful to check out www.searchenginewatch.com for more information about popular search engines.. How can I add an FLV flash video into my site? You can add a flash player to your site then link your own files to the player Go to Insert > Object > Objects > Flash Video Press ok Click to locate the video on your site Right click the player and select 'Link' In the Embedded Link field, edit this to point to your own.flv file To adjust size: Right click the player Choose link Select 'Player Properties' From here you can adjust size, loop, play automatically, as well as other setting.

When people come to my website I want the site to automatically adjust to the size of the browser window. Is there any way to do this in WebEasy? **You can set your website font sizes to change dynamically along with changes in the browser window width. This does not effect all elements in the site so it is best to test this locally to guarantee a satisfactory results prior to proceeding.** Try the following: 1) Go to view > inspector 2) Choose 'document' from the drop-down in the upper-right corner. 3) Navigate to Properties > Page Settings > Measurement 4) Double-click the box and choose 'percentage of page width' 5) Build and preview the site to view the results Here is some additional information on sizing of fonts. You can change the units that your document uses for all the measurement values when your site is built. It is important to note that changing the value for the measurement units will not effect how your site looks within web easy. You will notice the difference when you build or preview your site in a web browser. Style Description Relative to Font Size. This option sizes everything on your page relative to the font size the user has selected for their web browser. Absolute Pixels Size The page by pixels, page is sized relative to the viewing device. Absolute Points Size. The page by points used by CSS 2.1 are equal to 1/72th of an inch. Percentage of Page Width. Items on the page are resized and moved relative to the page size. They will only be resized or moved when the horizontal width of the browser window changes. Another way to stop the resizing in internet explorer is to specify the font size units in pixels. You can not do this through web easy so it would be a matter of changing the code manually before uploading. To do this replace the font tags such as with an explicit pixel size as follows (uses a CSS font-size style), Firefox will still resize this text, but IE will always display it at 13px Bookmarks To put an "Add to bookmark" in web easy 7 : first put this in the "Head Elements" of the page (inspector properties)

Iframes  <iframe src="put-the-url-of-what-you-want-to-frame-here" style="border:1px solid;" name="frame1" scrolling="auto" frameborder="yes" align="center" height = "900px" width = "800px"> </iframe>  Can I make the same piece of background audio play throughout my site, regardless of which page is being viewed? There is a trick in Web Easy Professional that will allow you to do this. Solution 1) Add a new page at the end of your site. 2) Set the background audio on this page. 3) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Preview". 4) Click the "Options" button. 5) Check the "Dynamic HTML" box. 6) Click the "Advanced" button. 7) In the "Web Site Style" box select "Split with last page as frame". 8) Click OK. 9) Click OK again. 10) Click OK to preview your site. The last page of your site will become a frame along one side of the screen. This frame will never change, so the audio will play continually. You can put links on this page to your other pages to create a "navigation bar" that will be always available regardless of which page of your site is being viewed. When I add new links to my site they open in a new window. Why is this occurring? Web Easy 5 has a feature whereby links can be opened in a new window or in the same window without having to do scripting manually. When you create or edit a link, look in the top right hand corner of the Link dialog - you'll see a little icon of a page, with either an orange/yellow star or a green curved arrow. When it is showing the little star, it means the link will open in a new window. If you click this icon, it will change to having the green curved arrow, which indicates that the link will open in the current window. How do I make a link that opens a new browser window of a particular size, without toolbars or menus? This can be done using the Link to Script option in Web Easy Professional. Solution 1) Add some text or an image to your page - this will become the link 2) Select the item on your page and click the "Links" button in the top toolbar 3) Select the "Internet" tab 4) Select the "Script" button 5) In the "Script" box, enter the following code: href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.v-com.com', '', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes, width=620,height=420'))" This will create a link to http://www.v-com.com that opens in a new window. The window will be resizable, have

scrollbars and a status bar, and its dimensions will be 620 x 420 pixels. It will not have any toolbars or menus. You can replace the http://www.v-com.com part with the URL of the page you want to open. If you want to open a page of your own site, you would enter something similar to 'mysite_003.htm', depending on which page you want to link to, and the package name of your site. Note that this sort of link to a page in your site won't work in preview mode - it will only work once your site has been published, or if you view it by Building it to HTML, then opening it in your browser. This technique uses JavaScript to open the new window. There are some good JavaScript tutorials available at www.wdvl.com if you would like to learn more about this language. can I make a link to a page of my own site open in new window? Use the Link to Script option. This is a powerful tool with many uses, of which this is an example. 1. Right click on the object from which you wish to link. 2. Select the Internet Tab 3. Select the SCRIPT option Use "Link to Script", then put this text: href="album2_002.htm" target="_blank" in the Script box. The page name "album2_002.htm" shown above is only an example. To determine what name you should use, Build your page to a web site first. This will generate the html files. Check in the HTML files folder to see what file name is actually ascribed to the page you wish to link to. Then use this name in your script, and build your site again. Note that you cannot do this using Preview mode as the HTML files generated in this mode have temporary names assigned. I want to add a drop down box with sub fields to click on to send visitors to a specific page. How can I do this in WebEasy? This exact functionality is not provided by Web Easy. Such menus can be created using JavaScript and added to Web Easy sites using the Custom Script Assistant. One place to look for scripts would be http://javascript.internet. com Alternately, there's a Menu object in the "Objects\Objects - Advanced" folder which is similar but you have to click on it to make the menu appear, rather than just roll over it. When you add this object to the page a dialog should appear where you can specify what menu items to show. How do I add a video to my website? You can insert a movie or other multimedia file into your document using the Insert Photo dialog. To insert a movie: 1) Click to display the Edit taskbar. 2) Click Image to display the Edit Image toolbar. 3) Click Insert, and select Photo as if to insert a new photo. 4) The Choose Image dialog opens. 5) Type *.* in the file open box, press enter. 6) Browse to find the movie that you want to insert. 7) Click OK. 8) Click on the page where you want to

display the movie. Notes: The movie will not run in the document until it has been built. To view a quick display of the Web page with the movie, preview the Web site by clicking the Preview button in the Build toolbar. Tip: This feature is not supported by Netscape. If you want viewers using Netscape to see the movie, you can embed it as an embedded object using the Link dialog. have a script I need to put between the <head> and </head>. How can I do this? If it is a requirement that the HTML code go between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags, you can add it to the site as follows: 1) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Preview". 2) Click the "Options" button. 3) Click the "Advanced" button. 4) Enter the HTML code you want in the "Internet search engine description" box. 5) Click OK. 6) Click OK again. 7) Click OK to preview the site. The trick is that if you just enter text in the description box (as usual), Web Easy will automatically generate the following HTML code, between <HEAD> and </HEAD>: <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="whatever you entered">...however, if you enter actual HTML code in the description field, it will replace that meta tag entirely. If you still want to provide a meta description in addition to the custom code, you will have to manually type in a meta tag as shown above. have created a website and inside the frame menu are drop down boxes that link to other pages in the document. The drop down selections open within the frame in place of the menu. How can I direct my drop down selections to open another page and retain the menu frame? Try the following: - Select one of the drop-down boxes, and go to the Tools menu and select Custom Script Assistant. - Select the "Object Events" button. - You should see the following code: onchange="window.document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedindex].value"...change it to this: onchange="parent.myfrm.location.href=this.options[this.selectedindex].va lue"

- Now preview the site - the drop down box that had this change made should work as desired. You'll have to make this change to all the drop down boxes. Can I use a drop-down box to link to other web sites? This can be done using the Custom Script Assistant in Web Easy Professional. Solution 1) Use the photo browser to go to the "Objects\Objects - Advanced\Fields" folder. 2) Drag the "combo box" object (drop-down box) onto your page. 3) Select the drop-down box. 4) Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Custom Script Assistant". 5) Select the "Object Events" button. 6) Delete the script in the "contents" box and enter the following code in its place (make sure this code is all on one line, with no spaces): [code]onchange="window.document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedindex].value"[code] 7) Select the "Text to Display" button. 8) Delete the script in the "contents" box and enter the following code in its place: [code]<option value='http://www.siteone.com'>site One <option value='http://www.sitetwo.com'>site Two <option value='http://www.sitethree.com'>site Three <option value='http://www.sitefour.com'>site Four[code] Replace the site URLs and names in the above with the appropriate details for the sites you want to link to. Can I use Java applets in my site? : Java applets can be integrated using the Custom Script Assistant in Web Easy Professional. Solution: 1) Insert an image into your page in the position where you want the applet to be. 2) Select the image. 3) Click the "Link" button in the top toolbar. 4) Select the "Internet" tab. 5) Select the "File" button. 6) Use the little browse button next to the "File Name" box to locate the Java CLASS, ZIP or JAR file. 7) Click OK. 8) Make sure the image is still selected. 9) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 10) In the window that appears, make sure the "Object Events" button is selected. 11) The Java applet will require some HTML code in order to function. Type your HTML code in the text box labelled "Contents", or paste it in by pressing CTRL-V. 12) At the very start of your code, enter <DIV>. At the very end of your code, enter </DIV>. You should end up with code that looks something like this:

<DIV><APPLET CODE......... </APPLET></DIV> 13) Click "OK". One problem you may have using Java applets is that if they display images (or other files) you will need to manually upload the images they use. You can do this using FTP Max (which is available by selecting "Transfer Files" from the Tools menu) or using another FTP program. : Custom HTML and JavaScript code can be added to your pages using the Custom Script Assistant in Web Easy Professional. This functionality is not available in Web Easy. Solution: The Custom Script Assistant can be opened by selecting "Custom Script Assistant" from the "Tools" menu. It allows HTML and JavaScript code to be added in four different ways: 1) Attached to an item (image or text) at a specific loction within your page. 2) Directly after the <BODY> tag, but before any other items on your page. 3) As attributes of the <BODY> tag itself. 4) Between the <HEAD> and <BODY> tags, as JavaScript code. To add custom HTML code at a specific location within your page: 1) Insert an image into your page in the position where you want the custom code to be. 2) Select the image. 3) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 4) In the window that appears, make sure the "Object Events" button is selected. 5) Type your custom HTML code in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 6) Click "OK". After doing this the image acts as a placeholder for your custom HTML code. When you preview the site, the image will be replaced by your code. You may need to resize the image, depending on the code you have entered. Note that if you use copy-and-paste to duplicate the placeholder, you will need to manually add the script to the new placeholder image - it will not be copied automatically. This technique can also be used to add attributes to HTML tags, for example if you added the code BORDER=2 to an image, when you preview your site the image will have a 2-pixel wide border. To add custom HTML code directly after the <BODY> tag, but before any other items on your page: 1) Make sure there are no items selected on your page. 2) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 3) In the window that appears, make sure the "Body Elements" button is selected. 4) Type your custom HTML code in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 5) Click "OK". To add custom attributes to the <BODY> tag itself:

1) Make sure there are no items selected on your page. 2) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 3) In the window that appears, make sure the "Body Events" button is selected. 4) Type your custom attributes in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 5) Click "OK". To add JavaScript code Between the <HEAD> and <BODY> tags: 1) Make sure there are no items selected on your page. 2) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 3) In the window that appears, make sure the "Source Code" button is selected. 4) Type your custom attributes in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 5) Click "OK". In this case, only pure JavaScript code can be entered, as Web Easy will automatically generate <SCRIPT> tags for you. The Keywords List The Keywords are a list of commonly used HTML and JavaScript keywords. If you select one, it will be added to your script in the Contents box. This list serves no other purpose - it does not matter what is currently selected in the list when you are using the Custom Script Assistant. How do I make my own re-usable objects that I can include in my web sites? Objects consist of two files - a Web Easy Template (.TPL) file and a GIF or JPG image with the same name as the template. The template file contains the definition of the object, and the image is what will appear in the photo browser. For a specific example, instructions are provided on how to create an object that is a company logo that links to the company web site: 1) Go to the "File" menu and select "New -> Blank Document". Click "OK" on the screen that appears. 2) Insert the company logo onto the page. 3) Move the image so it is in the top left hand corner of the page. Leave a little space between the image and the edges of the page. 4) Right-click on the image and select "Link" from the menu that appears. 5) Select the "Internet" tab 6) Select the "World Wide Web Site" button. 7) Enter the web site URL in the "Address" box, for example http://www.v-com.com/ - be sure to include the http:// part. 8) Click "OK". 9) Click on the page, somewhere other than where the image is. 10) Select "Size" from the toolbar at the top of the screen. 11) Enter a width and height a little bigger than the size of the logo. 12) Move the image so that it is centered on the page. 13) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Preview" to verify that your link works correctly. 14) Go to the "File" menu and select "Save As -> Template". Go to the "Web Easy\Objects Folder", and enter the name "Company Logo". Click "Save" to save the object. 15) Close the file. Congratulations! You just made a re-usable object. To test it, try the following:

1) Create a new web site. 2) Use the Photo Browser to go to the Objects folder. You should see your company logo object. 3) Drag the Company Logo object onto the page, then preview your site. Marque with text links <html> <head> <title>scrolling Marquee with text links</title> <script language="javascript">  </script> </head> <body> <div align="center"> <table width="30%"><tr><td> <script language="javascript">  </script> </td></tr></table> </div> </body> </html> Objects What do the various Objects included with Web Easy do, and how can I use them? The Objects included with Web Easy are split into two broad groups - those that can just be dragged into your page and require no further work; and those that require some customization using the Custom Script Assistant. The latter are only available in Web Easy Professional. The Objects that require no further work can be found in the "Objects\Gadgets" folder. Note that you can still modify the behaviour of these objects using the Custom Script Assistant if you so desire. Following is a description of each: - Animated Digital The text "Digital Imaging" will appear on your page in a 72 point font. After two seconds, the text will begin to shrink until it has finally disappeared. - Animated Welcome Two seconds after your page has loaded, the text "Welcome!" will appear in very small letters then expand until it is about 72 points high. - Background Fade When your page loads, the background will fade to black, then back to the background color. This only works if

you have a solid background color. It will have no effect if you are using a texture or a gradient. - Calculator Provides a handy calculator that visitors to your web site can use for simple arithmetic. - Calendar Displays the current date in a calendar style. The month and year appear at the top, the number of the day appears in the middle and the name of the day appears at the bottom. - Display Date Displays the current date in a format similar to "25 May 2002". - Display Time Displays the current time in a format similar to "11:44:10". If you build your site as DHTML, the time will update automatically every second. - Personal Greeting The first time a new visitor comes to your site, they will be asked for their name. Each time they come to your site, they will see a message similar to "Good afternoon John. This is your 20th visit." The greeing changes depending on the time of day (good morning, good evening etc). The visitor's name and visit count are stored in a cookie, so visitors must have cookies enabled for this to work. - Select Web Site Displays a list of web sites. Clicking on a site name will link to that web site. The list has default values that can be changed using the Custom Script Assistant. - Status Bar Clock Displays the current time in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window. The display is updated every second. - Visitor's Counter Displays a visitor counter from fakecounter.com. The FAQ "How do I use a visitor counter on my Web Site in Web Easy?" provides details of how to insert a real visitor counter. - World Clock Displays the time at four locations around the world. The display is updated every second, and visitors can select different locations to view. The Objects that do require further work can be found in the "Objects\Objects - Advanced" folder. Generally you will require some familiarity with HTML and/or JavaScript to modify these. Following is a description of each: - Alert on Click Provies a small image that opens a message box when the user clicks it. One use of this is to provide brief online help text for form fields. The text displayed can be changed in the link dialog. - Alert on Load Page Displays a message box when the page loads. The text can be changed using the Custom Script Assistant. Change the word "Welcome!" to the text you wish to appear. - Confirm Load Page When the page loads, the visitor will be asked if they wish to continue. If they select "OK", the page will load. If they select "Cancel" they will be returned to the previous page, or to a URL of your choosing. In the Custom Script Assistant, change the text "Opening..." to the message you want to display, and change the text 'http://your.url. here/' to the URL you wish to redirect to.

- Credits Provides a scrolling display similar to the credits you see at the end of a movie. When you use the custom script assistant, a description of how to change the text is provided inside the script itself. - Load New Page Automatically redirect to another web site after a few seconds. By default, you will be redirected to http://www.vcom.com/ after 5 seconds. A description of what to change is provided inside the script itself. - Menu Provides a drop-down menu from which a visitor can select another web site to go to. The menu item text and URLs can be changed at the top of the script. The menu title defaults to "{Menu}". This can be changed to something more appropriate for your site - it appears about half-way throught the script. - News Provides a vertically scrolling news ticker. The scrolling pauses for a few seconds when each new item comes into view. A description of what to change is provided inside the script itself. - Status Bar Message Provides a scrolling message in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window. A description of what to change is provided inside the script itself. - Table A standard HTML table with headings, rows and columns. The dimensions, color and content of the table can be changed by editing the HTML with the Custom Script Assistant. - Text Expanding Similar to "Animated Welcome" in "Objects\Gadgets". Change the text "Opening..." to the text you want to display. - Text Shrinking Similar to "Animated Digital" in "Objects\Gadgets". The text displayed consists of the word "Digital", a space and the word "Now!". Change these two words to the text you want to display. - View Image Allows you to include the thumbnail of an image on your page, then have the image display full-size in a new window when clicked. For more information see the FAQ "How do I create a popup image window in Web Easy?" Web Easy Professional crashes unexpectedly at random times. Is there a fix for this? Please download and install the following patch. If you are having this problem with Web Easy or Web Easy Professional Express, please see the relevant FAQ listed below. The patch can be installed as follows. Note that you will need WinZip or another file archival utility to extract the patch. 1) Make sure Web Easy is not running. 2) Open My Computer or Windows Explorer and go to the Web Easy program folder. This will usually be "c: \program files\v communications\web easy professional". 3) Rename the existing ixlawebeasys.exe file to something else, say old_ixlawebeasys.exe 4) Download the patch file and extract the ixlawebeasys.exe file contained inside it to the Web Easy program folder. Open Wibdow no features

<A HREF="javascript:void(0)" ONCLICK="window.open('http://www.google.com','miniwin','toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0, menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=500,height=300')">open A Window</a> href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.dianesjewelrycollection.com/infoform.html', '', 'resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes,status=yes,width=300,height=400'))" Timed Banner Image Swapper <html> <head> <title>image Swapping Sponsor Rotator</title> </head> <body> <h3>image Swapping Sponsor Rotator</h3> <script language="javascript"> <!-- function adarray() { for (i=0; i*2<adarray.arguments.length; i++) { this[i] = new Object(); this[i].src = adarray.arguments[i*2]; this[i].href = adarray.arguments[i*2+1]; } this.length = i; } function getadnum() { dat = new Date(); dat = (dat.gettime()+"").charat(8); if (dat.length == 1) ad_num = dat%ads.length; else ad_num = 0; return ad_num; } /*this array follows this pattern -> path to first image, first image link, path to second image, second image link... */ var ads = new adarray( "http://resources.bravenet.com/resfiles_output.php?section=clipart&file=banner-00043.gif", "http://www.yourfirsturl.com", "http://resources.bravenet.com/resfiles_output.php?section=clipart&file=banner-00050.gif", "http://www.yoursecondurl.com", "http://resources.bravenet.com/resfiles_output.php?section=clipart&file=banner-00052.gif", "http://www.yourthirdurl.com" ); var ad_num = getadnum(); // don't change this line document.write('<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=1 border=0><tr><td '

+'align="left">' +'We are sponsored by:</td></tr><tr><td>' +'<A href="'+ads[ad_num].href+'"><img SRC="'+ads[ad_num].src+'" ' +'height="60" width="468" border="0" name="js_ad"></a></td></tr></table>'); // ****** YOU NEED NOT MODIFY ANYTHING THAT IS NOT IN BETWEEN THESE TWO COMMENTS **** link_num = document.links.length-1; function rotatesponsor() { if (document.images) { ad_num = (ad_num+1)%ads.length; document.js_ad.src = ads[ad_num].src; document.links[link_num].href = ads[ad_num].href; settimeout("rotatesponsor()",5000); } } settimeout("rotatesponsor()",5000); // --> </script> </body> </html> Text Box H Scroller script <html> <head> <title>textbox Scroller</title> <script language="javascript">

</script> </head> <body onload="maintextscroller()"> <form name="mainform"> <center> <input type="text" name="maintextscroller" size="40" value> </center> </form> </body> </html> Scrolling Text script <html> <head> <title>scrolling Text</title> <script language="javascript"> //ENTER CONTENT TO SCROLL BELOW. var content='<div align="center"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/common/images/resources/scripts/ bnetlogo.gif"></div><p>visit <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/index.php">bravenet.com</a> for all of the <strong>free</strong> web tools and services you could want.</p><p> Also, check out our <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/webhosting/index.php">hosting and domains</a> section.</p><p>we also have a vast archive of FREE <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/resources/index.php">developer Resources.</a>'; var boxheight=150; // BACKGROUND BOX HEIGHT IN PIXELS. var boxwidth=150; // BACKGROUND BOX WIDTH IN PIXELS. var boxcolor="#e9f0f8"; // BACKGROUND BOX COLOR. var speed=50; // SPEED OF SCROLL IN MILLISECONDS (1 SECOND=1000 MILLISECONDS).. var pixelstep=2; // PIXELS "STEPS" PER REPITITION. var godown=false; // TOP TO BOTTOM=TRUE, BOTTOM TO TOP=FALSE // DO NOT EDIT BEYOND THIS POINT var outer,inner,elementheight,ref,refx,refy; var w3c=(document.getelementbyid)?true:false; var ns4=(document.layers)?true:false; var ie4=(document.all &&!w3c)?true:false; var ie5=(document.all && w3c)?true:false; var ns6=(w3c && navigator.appname.indexof("netscape")>=0)?true:false; var txt=''; if(ns4){ txt+='<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height='+boxheight+' width='+boxwidth+'><tr><td>'; txt+='<ilayer name="ref" bgcolor="'+boxcolor+'" width='+boxwidth+' height='+boxheight+'></ilayer>'; txt+='</td></tr></table>' txt+='<layer name="outer" bgcolor="'+boxcolor+'" visibility="hidden" width='+boxwidth+' height='+boxheight+'>'; txt+='<layer name="inner" width='+(boxwidth-4)+' height='+(boxheight-4)+' visibility="hidden" left="2" top="2" >'+content+'</layer>'; txt+='</layer>'; }else{ txt+='<div id="ref" style="position:relative; width:'+boxwidth+'; height:'+boxheight+'; backgroundcolor:'+boxcolor+';" ></div>'; txt+='<div id="outer" style="position:absolute; width:'+boxwidth+'; height:'+boxheight+'; visibility:hidden;

background-color:'+boxcolor+'; overflow:hidden" >'; txt+='<div id="inner" style="position:absolute; visibility:visible; left:2px; top:2px; width:'+(boxwidth-4)+'; overflow:hidden; cursor:default;">'+content+'</div>'; txt+='</div>'; } document.write(txt); function getelheight(el){ if(ns4)return (el.document.height)? el.document.height : el.clip.bottom-el.clip.top; else if(ie4 ie5)return (el.style.height)? el.style.height : el.clientheight; else return (el.style.height)? parseint(el.style.height):parseint(el.offsetheight); } function getpageleft(el){ var x; if(ns4)return el.pagex; if(ie4 w3c){ x = 0; while(el.offsetparent!=null){ x+=el.offsetleft; el=el.offsetparent; } x+=el.offsetleft; return x; }} function getpagetop(el){ var y; if(ns4)return el.pagey; if(ie4 w3c){ y=0; while(el.offsetparent!=null){ y+=el.offsettop; el=el.offsetparent; } y+=el.offsettop; return y; }} function scrollbox(){ if(ns4){ inner.top+=(godown)? pixelstep: -pixelstep; if(godown){ if(inner.top>boxheight)inner.top=-elementheight; }else{ if(inner.top<2-elementheight)inner.top=boxheight+2; }}else{ inner.style.top=parseint(inner.style.top)+((godown)? pixelstep: -pixelstep)+'px'; if(godown){ if(parseint(inner.style.top)>boxheight)inner.style.top=-elementheight+'px'; }else{ if(parseint(inner.style.top)<2-elementheight)inner.style.top=boxheight+2+'px'; }}} window.onresize=function(){

if(ns4)settimeout('history.go(0)', 400); else{ outer.style.left=getpageleft(ref)+'px'; outer.style.top=getpagetop(ref)+'px'; }} window.onload=function(){ outer=(ns4)?document.layers['outer']:(ie4)?document.all['outer']:document.getelementbyid('outer'); inner=(ns4)?outer.document.layers['inner']:(ie4)?document.all['inner']:document.getelementbyid('inner'); ref=(ns4)?document.layers['ref']:(ie4)?document.all['ref']:document.getelementbyid('ref'); elementheight=getelheight(inner); if(ns4){ outer.moveto(getpageleft(ref),getpagetop(ref)); outer.clip.width=boxwidth; outer.clip.height=boxheight; inner.top=(godown)? -elementheight : boxheight-2; inner.clip.width=boxwidth-4; inner.clip.height=elementheight; outer.visibility="show"; inner.visibility="show"; }else{ outer.style.left=getpageleft(ref)+'px'; outer.style.top=getpagetop(ref)+'px'; inner.style.top=((godown)? -elementheight : boxheight)+'px'; inner.style.clip='rect(0px, '+(boxwidth-4)+'px, '+(elementheight)+'px, 0px)'; outer.style.visibility="visible"; } setinterval('scrollbox()',speed); } </script> <style type="text/css"> A:link {font: bold 12px tahoma; color: #004891; text-decoration: underline;} A:visited {font: bold 12px tahoma; color: #004891; text-decoration: underline;} A:hover {font: bold 12px tahoma; color: #E9F0F8; text-decoration: underline;} </style> </head> <body> </body> </html> Page Size You can create a web site that has variable page lengths without creating individual pages with different lengths. You cannot however use a template since they are fixed width and it will have to be built from scratch which is best anyway. Create a 1 page blank site and then set with width to any width you desire and then set the page height to say 3000 pixels. You can adjust the page height as needed later. Then go to view and select inspector and the inspector side bar will appear. Select the Style tab and look for Custom CSS and double click in the value field. A pop up window will appear. In the CSS Attributes Helper window scroll down until you find - height : 100

px 100% auto;height : auto; and select it. It will appear in the CSS in-line style code window. Now change the code to look like this height : auto; each page will have to have this code. This will set the page to end at whatever the last thing on you page is no matter what the height dimension is set to. You can then adjust the page height to what ever you like by moving the last thing on your page up or down depending on how much content you have on the page. If you ve already got your pages created, just go to inspector and add the above code. If you ve used a template this will not work and you ll have to either create individual pages in separate folders or get rid of the template and start over. Page Size CSS In order to build our site with CSS and still be able to change each page's size according to it's content... do this : Choose current page in the upper right icon in the inspector (ctrl+k) -> Style Tab -> open custom CSS field - choose : Code: height : 100 px \ 100% \ auto;and erase 2 of the three setting tag. If you want your page to fit only the content then erase : 100 px \ 100% so it will looks like : Code: height : auto;thats it! POP UP Window href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.dianesjewelrycollection.com/infoform.html', '', 'resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes,status=yes,width=300,height=400'))" Changables yes to no for options and width, height to suit Design pop up page in WE with width and height of the window and upload to server Link to the pop up window with the Custom Script link CSA Object Events OnClick="window.open('http://www.v-com.com', 'mynewwindow', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes, width=620,height=420').focus();" CSA oe OnClick="window.open('cabspecials.htm', 'mynewwindow', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,width=620, height=420').focus();" Link internet Script href="http://www.v-com.com" target="_blank" Link Inter Script href="javascript:void(window.close());" next>> CSA body events OnClick="window.open('http://www.baskins.com', 'mynewwindow', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes, width=620,height=620').focus();"

Image CSA oe <iframe src="http://myelectronicsguru.com/home.htm" width="950" height="900"> </iframe> How do I make a link that opens a new browser window of a particular size, without toolbars or menus? 1) Add some text or an image to your page - this will become the link 2) Select the item on your page and click the "Links" button in the top toolbar 3) Select the "Internet" tab 4) Select the "Script" button 5) In the "Script" box, enter the following code: href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.v-com.com', '', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes, width=620,height=420'))" How can I make a link to a page of my own site open in new window? Use the Link to Script option. This is a powerful tool with many uses, of which this is an example. 1. Right click on the object from which you wish to link. 2. Select the Internet Tab 3. Select the SCRIPT option Use "Link to Script", then put this text: href="album2_002.htm" target="_blank" onload="window.open(webcal.html','mynewwindow','resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,width=620, height=480').focus();" href="http://www.baskins.com" target="_blank" Text Scroller <html> <head> <title>textbox Scroller</title> <script language="javascript"> <!-- Begin // THESE VARIABLES CAN BE CHANGED // var mymainmessage=" Try this out! The message just keeps repeating. Use it for announcements, news and other items! "; var speed=150; var scrollingregion=50; // END CHANGEABLE VARIABLES // var startposition=0; function maintextscroller() { var mainmessage=mymainmessage; var temploc=(scrollingregion*3/mainmessage.length)+1; if (temploc<1) {temploc=1} var counter; for(counter=0;counter<=temploc;counter++) mainmessage+=mainmessage; document.mainform.maintextscroller.value=mainmessage.substring(startposition,startposition+scrollingregion); startposition++; if(startposition>scrollingregion) startposition=0;

settimeout("maintextscroller()",speed); } // End --> </script> </head> <body onload="maintextscroller()"> <form name="mainform"> <center> <input type="text" name="maintextscroller" size="40" value> </center> </form> </body> </html> In order to build our site with CSS and still be able to change each page's size according to it's content... do this : Choose current page in the upper right icon in the inspector (ctrl+k) -> Style Tab -> open custom CSS field - choose : Code: height : 100 px \ 100% \ auto;and erase 2 of the three setting tag. If you want your page to fit only the content then erase : 100 px \ 100% so it will looks like : Code: height : auto;thats it! Do it for every page you need. Make you ponder why we need to find all these things ourself and not in an organized WE guide ha? You can look for other treasures in there. Okay, here is how you do it... you have to use a gradient background file, such as the one they used here called FOND.PNG, if you like the one they used here, simply download the file for yourself by right clicking on the page and selecting "Save background as". Once you have the background graphic, add a statement to each page of your document in the HEAD ELEMENTS section that says... body background="fond.png" obviously changing the filename and extension to whatever file you are using. You will have to manually upload the graphic file to your server, WE will not preview it or recognize it in the head element, but once you build and export it to HTML on your harddrive somewhere you can click on your index.html file and see the finished product before you upload it, making sure you have your graphic file in the same folder as where you just exported your html to. PS. The statement body background="fond.png" has to be put inside of < >, the forum kept crashing everytime I tried to post my reply with that statement inside the brackets. How do I add custom HTML or JavaScript code to my web page? Custom HTML and JavaScript code can be added to your pages using the Custom Script Assistant in Web Easy Professional. This functionality is not available in Web Easy. Solution The Custom Script Assistant can be opened by selecting "Custom Script Assistant" from the "Tools" menu. It allows HTML and JavaScript code to be added in four different ways:

1) Attached to an item (image or text) at a specific loction within your page. 2) Directly after the <BODY> tag, but before any other items on your page. 3) As attributes of the <BODY> tag itself. 4) Between the <HEAD> and <BODY> tags, as JavaScript code. To add custom HTML code at a specific location within your page: 1) Insert an image into your page in the position where you want the custom code to be. 2) Select the image. 3) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 4) In the window that appears, make sure the "Object Events" button is selected. 5) Type your custom HTML code in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 6) Click "OK". After doing this the image acts as a placeholder for your custom HTML code. When you preview the site, the image will be replaced by your code. You may need to resize the image, depending on the code you have entered. Note that if you use copy-and-paste to duplicate the placeholder, you will need to manually add the script to the new placeholder image - it will not be copied automatically. This technique can also be used to add attributes to HTML tags, for example if you added the code BORDER=2 to an image, when you preview your site the image will have a 2-pixel wide border. To add custom HTML code directly after the <BODY> tag, but before any other items on your page: 1) Make sure there are no items selected on your page. 2) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 3) In the window that appears, make sure the "Body Elements" button is selected. 4) Type your custom HTML code in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 5) Click "OK". To add custom attributes to the <BODY> tag itself: 1) Make sure there are no items selected on your page. 2) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 3) In the window that appears, make sure the "Body Events" button is selected. 4) Type your custom attributes in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 5) Click "OK". To add JavaScript code Between the <HEAD> and <BODY> tags: 1) Make sure there are no items selected on your page. 2) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 3) In the window that appears, make sure the "Source Code" button is selected. 4) Type your custom attributes in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 5) Click "OK". In this case, only pure JavaScript code can be entered, as Web Easy will automatically generate <SCRIPT> tags for you. The Keywords List The Keywords are a list of commonly used HTML and JavaScript keywords. If you select one, it will be added to your script in the Contents box. This list serves no other purpose - it does not matter what is currently selected in the list when you are using the Custom Script Assistant.

In order to build our site with CSS and still be able to change each page's size according to it's content... do this : There's a trick you can use to add HTML code inside <head>. If you enter HTML code into the Search Engine Description (or Author or Keywords) field on the Advanced Build Options screen, it will be added inside <head>. Normally, if you just enter text into these fields, HTML <meta> tags will be generated automatically, but if you enter actual HTML code into these fields, it will be put directly inside <head>, as is. There's another option that may be suitable, but it depends on the actual code you are adding. The Custom Script Assistant has a "source code" option. This can be used if you want to add JavaScript above the <body> tag. It will actually be added between the <head> and <body>, but this effectively works the same as adding it inside <head>. Note that the "source code" option is for pure JavaScript, not for HTML tags. You should not put <script> tags in using this option, as these will be generated automatically by Web Easy Pro. I have lost my website from my local machine but it is still on the webserver that hosts my website. What can I do to get the website back into WebEasy so I can continue editing my website? You need to first download the website from your website host provider. If you are uncertain how to do this or have problems, your website host can help you with this step. Once you have the website downloaded to your local machine, you are ready to import it: ( Please note, these steps only apply to WebEasy Professional 5 and above) Click the HOME button to display the Home taskbar. Click Design to display the Design toolbar. Click Create a new blank document. The New Document dialog is displayed. Click the Import button. The Import Web Site dialog is displayed. Choose the HTML file which should become the main page of the Web Site and click the Open button. Wait for the conversion process tocomplete. At this point a new Web Site design document is created in memory. Tips: All the images on the design pages are linked directly to the original HTML Web Site folders. It is recommended to save the final result in a separate folder as an archive, where all the necessary images will be copied for future use. Please note that in certain circumstances Web Easy may not be able to import all the elements and attributes from the existing HTML files. However you should be able to import and restore all your text and image elements, as well as the position of these items How do I link to a Word or Excel document in Web Easy? This is the same process as linking to other file types such as an MP3 file ( available in FAQ # 603). The link is held by a placeholder object.

Solution 1) Place the object on the page that will hold the link to the Word or Excel document. 2) Right click on the object, then click on Link. 3) Click on the Internet tab. 4) Select the Link to: File option. 5) Browse for the File name and path. 6) Click on OK. When the link is clicked it will download or view the Word or Excel document, depending on the browser settings of the viewer. When someone tries to submit a form on my web site, a blank email message opens up instead. How do I fix this? The pre-built forms in Web Easy are submitted using the default email program on the computer that is viewing the web site. This works in most cases, however sometimes it will not, in particular if visitors to your site do not have their email program configured correctly, or if they are using AOL's web browser. This problem can be solved by changing the form so that it is submitted to a "form mailer" script on your web server instead. You will need to contact your hosting provider to find out if they have a form mailer script you can use, and what its URL is. Solution Note: This solution is only applicable for Web Easy Professional, as it requires the Custom Script Assistant which is not included in Web Easy. 1) In Web Easy Professional, drag a form onto your web page 2) Click on the "Send" button (sometimes a second click is required when the form's elements are grouped) and choose "Custom Script Assistant" from the "Tools" menu. 3) Replace the e-mail action in your script with the URL of the form mailer script on your server. before: this.form.action='mailto:your@address.com?subject=request Form'; after: this.form.action='http://your_isp/cgi-bin/email.cgi';...note that you will have to replace http://your_isp/cgi-bin/email.cgi with the actual URL of your hosting provider's form mailer script. 4) Delete the line that says: if(!(ie && MAC && V4 &&!V5)) this.form.encoding='text/plain'; 5) Click OK to accept the above changes. When doing this you may - depending on the form mailer script - need to build your site as standard HTML as opposed to Dynamic HTML. Make sure the Dynamic HTML box is not checked on the Build Web Site screen. If you do not have access to a form mailer script, this service is provided free at www.response-o-matic.com with a couple of conditions (eg: you're not allowed to use the service to ask people for credit card numbers). You can

make a form that will submit to response-o-matic by doing the following (see their web site for more details): 1) In Web Easy Professional, drag a form onto your web page 2) Click on the "Send" button (sometimes a second click is required when the form's elements are grouped) and choose "Custom Script Assistant" from the "Tools" menu. 3) Replace the e-mail action in your script with the URL of the response-o-matic form. before: this.form.action='mailto:your@address.com?subject=request Form'; after: this.form.action='http://www.response-o-matic.com/cgi-bin/rom.pl'; 4) Delete the line that says: if(!(ie && MAC && V4 &&!V5)) this.form.encoding='text/plain'; 5) Click OK to accept the above changes. 6) Use the Photo Browser to go to the "Objects\Objects - Advanced\Fields" folder 7) Drag a "Hidden" field onto the page, select it and open the Custom Script Assistant as mentioned above. 8) Select the "Object Events" button. 9) Change the "Contents" to the following: NAME="your_email_address" VALUE="your@address.here"...note that you will have to replace your@address.here with your real email address. 10) Click "OK" 11) Repeat steps 7-10, another six times, each time inserting one of the following lines of code: NAME="your_name" VALUE="Your Name Here" NAME="email_subject_line" VALUE="Feedback Form" NAME="required_fields" VALUE="your_email_address" NAME="thank_you_title" VALUE="Thank you for completing the form" NAME="return_link_url" VALUE="http://www.yoursite.com/" NAME="return_link_name" VALUE="Back to the Home Page"...note that you will have to replace Your Name Here and http://www.yoursite.com/ with appropriate values. 12) Now preview your site. The form should work correctly. Note that Response-O-Matic will display some advertising on the thankyou page provided after a form submission. When doing this you will need to build your site as standard HTML as opposed to Dynamic HTML. Make sure the Dynamic HTML box is not checked on the Build Web Site screen. How do I add a "search" function to my site? Web Easy does not include site search capabilities, because this generally requires some server-side processing. However, there are a number of free search providers around, such as www.freefind.com. They will provide you with some custom HTML code to add to your site, which you can do using the Custom Script Assistant in Web Easy Professional. 1) Insert an image into your page in the position where you want the custom code to be. 2) Select the image. 3) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 4) In the window that appears, make sure the "Object Events" button is selected. 5) Type your custom HTML code in the text box labelled "Contents", or paste it in by pressing CTRL-V. 6) Click "OK".

After doing this the image acts as a placeholder for your custom HTML code. When you preview the site, the image will be replaced by your code. You may need to resize the image, depending on the code you have entered. Note that if you use copy-and-paste to duplicate the placeholder, you will need to manually add the script to the new placeholder image - it will not be copied automatically. How do I use a visitor counter on my Web Site in Web Easy? Making a hit counter work depends to a degree on your hosting provider. The basic idea is that if your hosting provider has a hit counter script, you can use the "Link to Embedded Image" option to include the counter in your site. Solution: To use the "Link to Embedded Image" option: 1) Add an image to your site. This image will be replaced by the hit counter when you preview or publish your site. 2) Select the image and click the "Link" button in the top toolbar. 3) Select the "Internet" tab. 4) Select the "Embedded image" button. 5) In the "Address" box, enter the URL of the counter script. This may be similar to http://www.myisp.com/counter If your hosting provider does not have a hit counter script, there are free counters available from other sites, but some of these (eg: www.sitemeter.com) require you to add custom HTML code to your site, which is only supported in Web Easy Professional. The procedure for doing this is as follows: 1) Insert an image into your page in the position where you want the counter to be. 2) Select the image. 3) From the "Tools" menu select "Custom Script Assistant" 4) In the window that appears, make sure the "Object Events" button is selected. 5) Type the HTML code for the counter in the text box labelled "Contents", or press CTRL-V to paste it. 6) Click "OK". After doing this the image acts as a placeholder for your counter. When you preview the site, the image will be replaced by the counter. You may need to resize the image, depending on the counter. Note that if you use copyand-paste to duplicate the placeholder, you will need to manually add the script to the new placeholder image - it will not be copied automatically. How do I make a link that opens a new browser window of a particular size, without toolbars or menus? This can be done using the Link to Script option in Web Easy Professional. Solution 1) Add some text or an image to your page - this will become the link 2) Select the item on your page and click the "Links" button in the top toolbar 3) Select the "Internet" tab 4) Select the "Script" button 5) In the "Script" box, enter the following code: href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.v-com.com', '', 'resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes, width=620,height=420'))" href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.dianesjewelrycollection.com/infoform.html', '', 'resizable=yes,

scrollbars=no,status=yes,width=300,height=400'))" This will create a link to http://www.v-com.com that opens in a new window. The window will be resizable, have scrollbars and a status bar, and its dimensions will be 620 x 420 pixels. It will not have any toolbars or menus. You can replace the http://www.v-com.com part with the URL of the page you want to open. If you want to open a page of your own site, you would enter something similar to 'mysite_003.htm', depending on which page you want to link to, and the package name of your site. Note that this sort of link to a page in your site won't work in preview mode - it will only work once your site has been published, or if you view it by Building it to HTML, then opening it in your browser. This technique uses JavaScript to open the new window. There are some good JavaScript tutorials available at www.wdvl.com if you would like to learn more about this language. How can I make a link to a page of my own site open in new window? Use the Link to Script option. This is a powerful tool with many uses, of which this is an example. 1. Right click on the object from which you wish to link. 2. Select the Internet Tab 3. Select the SCRIPT option Use "Link to Script", then put this text: href="album2_002.htm" target="_blank" in the Script box. The page name "album2_002.htm" shown above is only an example. To determine what name you should use, Build your page to a web site first. This will generate the html files. Check in the HTML files folder to see what file name is actually ascribed to the page you wish to link to. Then use this name in your script, and build your site again. Note that you cannot do this using Preview mode as the HTML files generated in this mode have temporary names assigned. would like to add an Adobe Acrobat file to my website. How do I attach my pdf file Adding a PDF file to a website is the same process as linking to Excel or Word files. The link is held by a placeholder object. Solution 1) Place the object on the page that will hold the link to the pdf document. 2) Right click on the object, then click on Link. 3) Click on the Internet tab. 4) Select the Link to: File option. 5) Browse for the File name and path. 6) Click on OK. When the link is clicked it will download or view the pdf document, depending on the browser settings of the viewer Even though the size of all the text items on my page is the same in Web Easy, they appear in different sizes

in my web browser. How can I fix this? There are a three reasons this could be happening: 1) The problem could be caused by overlapping text or images. Standard HTML does not support overlapping items, so for each overlapping item an image is created. Thus there will be subtle differences in the display between these generated images and normal plain text. 2) You have used 'non standard' fonts in your design, and are viewing your site on a computer that does not have these fonts installed. 3) The web browser is not capable of displaying the font in the size you have specified. If you build your site as standard HTML, fonts will only display in one of the following point sizes: 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, 36. If you pick a different size, it will be changed to one of the above. Solution 1) Ensure that your text items do not overlap each other, and do not overlap any images. It is important that no part of any text item - including its surrounding rectangle - overlaps anything else. When you select an item, the handles that appear around it indicate the size of this rectangle. Alternately, you can build your site as Dynamic HTML, which does support overlapping items. How do I change my website so the background stay's still while the content on the page seems to float as you scroll? You can do this as follows: - Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Custom Script Assistant". - Select the "Body Events" button. - Enter the following code in the "Contents" box: style="background-attachment: fixed;" - Click OK. That will make the background image stay in a fixed position for the current page. The above steps will need to be repeated for the other pages in the site. How do I save a copy of my web site to a CD? While we cannot provide specific instructions for how to use the various CD burning packages that are available, generally speaking you can copy your web site onto a CD using one of the following procedures. 1) If you want to create a backup copy of your web site that can be opened in Web Easy at a later point, do the following: - Open your site in Web Easy. - Go to the "File" menu and select "Save As -> Archive".

- Select a folder that contains no other files and click "Save". Your web site file and all associated images will be saved to this folder. - Use your CD burning software to drag-and-drop this folder to a CD (or use whatever equivalent process is required by your software). 2) If you want to put the HTML version of your web site on a CD so that it can be opened in a web browser, do the following: - Open your site in Web Easy. - Go to the "Build" menu and select "Web Site (HTML)". - Click the little browse button next to the "Folder" box to locate a folder that has no other files in it. - Uncheck the "publish" and "run now" boxes. - Click OK to build your site to the specified folder. - Use your CD burning software to drag-and-drop this folder to a CD (or use whatever equivalent process is required by your software). My website host provider insists that all my pages be saved with.html extensions, not.htm. Is there a way to change this in WebEasy so the pages I build have.html extensions? On the Build Web Site screen, put ".html" after the package name, eg: use "MySite.html" rather than just "MySite", and it will build with.html extensions (actually, you can use this to give the files any extension you want). There is one caveat, the.html extension is not remembered - the next time you build the site, you'll have to add ". html" to the package name again. How do I attach an MP3 audio file to an object in Web Easy? There are two ways to do this: - Using an "Audio Link". If you build your site as Dynamic HTML, this option will create a link which will cause the audio file to play when you move the mouse over the link, and stop when you move the mouse off the link. - Using the "Link to File" option. This is a normal link to a file which, when clicked, will either download or play the audio file, depending on the settings of the web browser. To create an Audio Link: Place the object on the page that will hold the link to the MP3 file. Right click on the object, then click "Link". Select the "Audio" tab. Select the "Link To: Sound Effects and Music" option. Click the browse button next to the "Audio File" field to locate the MP3 file to link to. Click OK. To use the Link to File option: Place the object on the page that will hold the link to the MP3 file. Right click on the object, then click "Link". Select the "Internet" tab. Select the "Link to: File" option.

Click the browse button next to the "File Name" field. Select "Audio Files" in the "Files of type" drop-down list, then browse to find the file to link to. Click OK. Can I make the same piece of background audio play throughout my site, regardless of which page is being viewed? There is a trick in Web Easy Professional that will allow you to do this. Solution 1) Add a new page at the end of your site. 2) Set the background audio on this page. 3) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Preview". 4) Click the "Options" button. 5) Check the "Dynamic HTML" box. 6) Click the "Advanced" button. 7) In the "Web Site Style" box select "Split with last page as frame". 8) Click OK. 9) Click OK again. 10) Click OK to preview your site. The last page of your site will become a frame along one side of the screen. This frame will never change, so the audio will play continually. You can put links on this page to your other pages to create a "navigation bar" that will be always available regardless of which page of your site is being viewed. I have a form on my website that people submit inquires through. How do I have "web_site_inquiry" appear in the subject line of the emails I receive? To add a "subject" in WebEasy to the email link: 1. select the item 2. choose Modify Link (the Link dialog is open) 3. choose "Internet" tab 4. click on "E-mail" radio button 5. enter "Address" as: yourname@email.net?subject=web_site_inquiry (Please replace the yourname@email.net with your own email address) There are also other keywords to use with the email link,see for example "http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto. html" All should be added in the same fashion as above flowchart. The Link Dialog does not support these specifications by separated fields How do I make a "slide show" so that my photos appear one after another, in the same place on the page? This can be done using DHTML Effects. Many of the available effects (eg: fades, wipes etc) work best in Internet Explorer. In Netscape, your photos will just appear one after the other, rather than fading or wiping. Solution

1) Insert three photos on your page 2) Click somewhere else on the page (not on a photo) to ensure that no items are selected 3) Hold down the CTRL key and click on the photos one at a time, starting with the rear-most photo. 4) In the toolbar at the top of the screen, click the "Effects" button. 5) On the screen that appears, select "Box Wipe - In from edge" from the "Effect" drop down list. 6) In the "Style" list, select "Fade in - Slow" 7) Check the box labelled "Arrange a slideshow of the selected items" 8) Click OK 9) Click "Build" the "Preview" your site. In the Preview web site dialog, make sure that the Heading reads "Dynamic Internet web site". If it reads "Standard Internet web site", double click on the icon beside the heading to change it. 9) You will see the Preview of your site in your Browser. Click on "Refresh" to see the effect again. You should see the photos appear one after another. 10) If you want to try different effects, repeat steps 2 through 7 with different settings. 11) Once you are happy with the effect, select all the photos again as in steps 2 and 3. 12) Right-click on one of the photos and select "Fit -> Make Same Size" 13) Right-click on one of the photos again and select "Fit -> Make Same Position" 14) Preview your site as before. Of course, you can do this with any number of photos - not just three. Note: Web Easy Professional includes many more effects than does Web Easy. I want to setup a standard form that will allow users to email me the form information. How do I set this up to send to my email address? Try deleting the form you have on this page. Select a new form from the file browser section C:\Program Files \VCOM\Web Easy Professional 6\Objects\Forms. When you drop this onto the site a box appears where you can change the email address for the form to send to. Change the your@address.here to reflect your actual email address How can I make text in my web site look exactly the same in all browsers, including fonts and effects like drop shadows? Web Easy Professional provides the option to convert text to an image, so that it will always look exactly the same in all web browsers as it does in your design. The only issue with doing this is that images are slower to download than text, so it is recommended that this be used sparingly. Solution 1) Select the text. 2) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Component -> Image". 3) Enter a name for the image, and perhaps change what folder the image will be saved in. 4) In the "Image format" box, select either "Compuserve GIF" or "Portable Network Graphic". 5) Click the "Advanced" button. 6) Check the "Transparent color" box. 7) Click the colored box next to this button and choose a color - you should choose a color similar to the background you will be putting the text on top of, or similar to the text color, because you may end up with a slight "halo" in this color around the text. 8) Click OK to close the Advanced Image Options screen.

9) Check the "Replace selection with new image" box. 10) Check the "Export selection" box. 11) Uncheck the "Run now" box. 12) Click OK. When you click OK, your text will be saved as an image in the folder specified, then put on your page in place of the existing text. If it appears squashed, right-click it and select "Fit -> Original Image Size". Please note that it is not possible to convert the image back to text, so you will be unable to edit the text itself after doing the above. Is there a way to create a drop-down menu to link to other websites? Look in the file browser at the bottom of the WebEasy window. Go to C:\Program Files\VCOM\Web Easy Professional 6\Objects\Objects - Advanced in the file browser. Select the menu object and drag this onto the page. An object script properties box should appear. double click in the value column for 'list of items'. This will open a new window called object script properties (1). There you can enter the url addresses for the links you would like. For instance http://www.mywebsite.com/page_002.htm How do I create a background image that does not "tile" in Web Easy? The easiest way to create this effect, is rather than setting the image to be the background image, just drag it onto your page the same as you do with any other image. Right-click the image and select "Order -> Send to Back" to move the image behind all the other items on your page. There is another way to do it, with a small amount of custom scripting, but this will only work in newer web browsers (Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 6), and requires Web Easy Professional: 1) Add a background image to your page. 2) Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Custom Script Assistant". 3) Select the "Body Events" button. 4) Enter the following code in the "Contents" box: style="background-repeat: no-repeat;" 5) Click OK. How do I add ALT attributes to the images in my site? You can set an ALT attribute for an image by doing the following: 1) Create a new text item and enter the text you want to use for the ALT attribute. 2) Move and resize the text item so that it fits completely within the bounds of the image you want to attach it to. 3) Right click the text item and select "Order -> Send Backward". Repeat this until the text is behind the image. Now preview your site. The text you entered should become the ALT attribute of the image. If you are using Internet Explorer you can verify this by holding the mouse cursor over the image for a couple of seconds - the ALT attribute should appear as a little "tool tip" over the image.

When some viewers visit my website, the fonts are larger and the page is distorted. What can I do to correct this?as-html> Here is some info on sizing of fonts. Try "Percentage of Page Width" to begin. From web easy help: You can change the units that your document uses for all the measurement values when your site is built. It is important to note that changing the value for the measurement units will not effect how your site looks within web easy. You will notice the difference when you build or preview your site in a web browser. Style Description Relative to Font Size. This option sizes everything on your page relative to the font size the user has selected for their web browser. Absolute Pixels Size the page by pixels, page is sized relative to the viewing device. Absolute Points Size the page by points used by CSS 2.1 are equal to 1/72th of an inch. Percentage of Page Width Items on the page are resized and moved relative to the page size. The will only be resized or moved when the horizontal width of the browser window changes. Another way to stop the resizing in internet explorer is to specify the font size units in pixels. You can not do this through web easy so it would be a matter of changing the code manually before uploading. To do this replace the font tags such as with an explicit pixel size as follows (uses a CSS font-size style), Firefox will still resize this text, but IE will always display it at 13px would like to make my website a secure page, https. Can I do this with WebEasy? Whether HTTP or HTTPS is used is up to the server - Web Easy does not know (and does not care) whether the site is to be accessed via HTTP or HTTPS. Depending on how the server is set up, it may be as simple as publishing the site normally, then typing in https://www.mywebsite.com/ <https://www.mywebsite.com/> (or whatever) to access the site, rather than http://www.mywebsite.com/ <http://www.mywebsite.com/> Alternately, if you just want a certain part of the site to use HTTPS, you will probably have to make two separate Web Easy sites, and publish them to separate folders on the server, then use the "link to www site" option to link from the non-secure site to the secure site (eg: a link to https://www.mywebsite.com/secure/ <https://www.mywebsite.com/secure/> ) The server will have to be set up to allow HTTPS access to the secure folder. How do I link two or more Web Easy documents together? First, create and save all your documents. After you have done this, you can use the "Link to Document" option to link them together. 1) Open one of your documents and select the item you want to link. 2) Click the "Link" button in the top toolbar. 3) On the "Document Navigation" tab, select "Document". 4) Click the little yellow browse button next to the "Document" box to locate the Web Easy document to link to. 5) Enter the page number to link to in the "Page" box. 6) Click OK. Links between documents don't work in preview mode because only one site exists in the preview folder at a time. However, you can preview the sites in your browser by doing this:

1) Open one site. 2) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Web Site (HTML)". 3) Make a note of the "Folder" setting. 4) Make sure the "run now" and "publish" boxes are not checked. 5) Click OK to build the site. 6) Open another site. 7) Go to the "Build" menu and select "Web Site (HTML)". 8) Make sure the "Folder" setting is the same as it was in step 2. 9) Check the "run now" box, but leave the "publish" box unchecked. 10) Click OK to build and view the site. If you are asked to delete any files not required, say "No". When you publish your sites, you need to publish them to the same folder on your server. Make sure you publish the site that you want to appear by default last. have created a website and inside the frame menu are drop down boxes that link to other pages in the document. The drop down selections open within the frame in place of the menu. How can I direct my drop down selections to open another page and retain the menu frame? Try the following: - Select one of the drop-down boxes, and go to the Tools menu and select Custom Script Assistant. - Select the "Object Events" button. - You should see the following code: onchange="window.document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedindex].value"...change it to this: onchange="parent.myfrm.location.href=this.options[this.selectedindex].va lue" - Now preview the site - the drop down box that had this change made should work as desired. You'll have to make this change to all the drop down boxes. What E-Commerce functionality is provided by Web Easy Professional and how do I use it? Web Easy provides a "Dynamic Link" component for integrating services provided by third-party vendors into your web sites. These services include webfeeds, affiliate marketing programs and online shopping. Web Easy also provides many pre-designed feedback forms for collecting information from your visitors. These can be inserted into your pages using drag and drop, the same way you do with images. The online Help system describes many of the features which can be obtained using the Dynamic Link function. Additionally, the Custom Script Assistant in Web Easy Professional allows you to add custom HTML and JavaScript code to your site so you can integrate with other third party soutions such as PayPal, for which there is

no entry in the Dynamic Link screen. How do I add extra lines to the order form included with Web Easy Professional? Firstly, the order form included with Web Easy Professional is really only intended as a very simple solution, and is not secure as the customer's details are sent to you via email. You are generally much better off signing up with a third party such as PayPal. However, extra lines can be added to the order form as follows: 1) Select the four fields that make up the line in the form 2) Copy and paste them to a new location 3) Select the new product name field 4) Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Custom Script Assistant". 5) Make sure the "Object Events" button is selected 6) In the Contents box, change the name from "Product_1_Name" to "Product_2_Name" 7) Click OK 8) Repeat steps 3-7 for the other new fields (Product_1_Price to Product_2_Price etc.) 9) For a third line, repeat steps 1-8, but use Product_3_Name, then Product_4_Name for the fourth line... By default, all text fields are required. This behaviour is determined by the script attached to the "Send Details" button. You can make all fields optional by doing this: 1) Drag-n-drop a form onto the page. The form should be selected. 2) Click the "Send Details" button to select it individually. 3) Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Custom Script Assistant". 4) Make sure "Object Events" is selected 5) In the "Contents" box, scroll down to about the middle of the script. You should see this code: if('text,textarea,password,file'.indexof(obj.type.tolowercase()) >= 0) { if( (itm=obj.value) == '') enter required information in the field.'); obj.focus(); return(false); } } { alert('please 6) Replace the above section of code with this, making sure you don't change any other code: if('text,textarea,password,file'.indexof(obj.type.tolowercase()) >= 0) { itm=obj.value; } 7) Click OK....Now preview the site, and all form fields will be optional. Unfortunately there is currently no easy way to make some fields required and some optional. I want to create a link in the middle of an image on my website. I do not want the entire image to be linked, just one portion. Is there a way to create this hot spot or image map in WebEasy?

This can be done in WebEasy by following the steps below: 1) Open up the page in web easy with the image you want to link to. 2) Go to C:\Program Files\VCOM\Web Easy Pro\Clipart\Rectangle in the light box. 3) Left click on the item sq1.gif 4) Drag and drop it onto the image you want the links to appear on 5) This should place an orange square over the image. 6) Use the corners and sides of the new sq1.gif to size it to the desired section. 7) Right click the sq1.gif and select link to link to the desired object or page. 8) Go to edit > image, then on the top toolbar select effects 9) In the effects box, select transparency. 10) Continue clicking on the more box until the center box is transparent. 11) click ok. Now the link will work on this image when you build the site. I am trying to create a link from a word of text contained in a paragraph. I try but it will only create the link to the entire paragraph. In order to create a link from within a block of text, the text needs to be in rich text mode. By default, many of the blocks of text will be plain text. If you select a single word and try to link to it, it will beep at you. To put a block of text into rich text mode, select it then go to the "Modify" menu and select "Rich Text Formatting". You should then be able to select individual words and link to them. Also, when publishing the site it needs to be built as Dynamic HTML in order for the links to function. Web Easy 5 thru 7 Some Functions Have Been Updated Compiled by RCSwebdesign.com

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