Web Pages

see also: help: publish, handy tips 

 

 

iNetWord is ideal for creating and maintaining Web pages because it puts everything you need at your fingertips -- uniformly formatted, centrally stored, and available anywhere.

Web sites often look different than printed materials. The techniques described here give your pages a Web look. These concepts are applicable to all Web editors, not just iNetWord. 

Placing Graphics at Page Edge

Making colors and graphics reach the edge of the page is called a 'bleed' in printing parlance. It's often used on web pages for borders, button bars, or splashy images. To achieve this in iNetWord:

  1. Click the View settings button and set the page margins to zero.
  2. Click the   button in that dialog box to set the background color of the whole page.
  3. Insert a 2x3 table with the Insert new table button. Use the Table width and other properties button to set the table width to 100%.
  4. Click the Table cell properties button to set the cell margins to zero.
  5. Upload graphics with the Insert picture button or using FTP (see quick start).
  6. Place graphics in the left, top, and/or rightmost cells. The graphics will touch the edge of the page and each other.

 

You can copy/paste graphics from another page into your page using Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, but be aware that the newly pasted graphic refers to the original graphic's location on the web. It does not create a brand new copy of the graphic. To create you own copies of graphics, download them to your computer and then upload them to iNetWord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Importing Web Sites 

You may already have a site on the net that you want to maintain with iNetWord.

 

Copy the entire site (HTML and graphics) to iNetWord with FTP. First copy the site to your hard drive, then upload to your 'docs' directory at iNetWord.

 

The 'Pictures' pane at iNetWord only shows the pictures in your 'docs/pics' folder and below. As you work on your site create your pictures folder hierarchy in the 'docs/pics' folder.

 

You can Ctrl+C copy/Ctrl+V paste text from browsers into iNetWord, but some types of formatting may not be preserved (IE copy/paste does not support CSS style sheets). The best way to cleanly import web pages is by uploading their HTML into iNetWord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Layout with Tables

Web page layout is done with tables. Sometimes tables within tables are used to achieve different arrangements. Use the following techniques to arrange your text and graphics just right:

Navigation Bars

You can create a navigation bar at the top or edge of your page using the techniques above to:

For really sophisticated navigation bars with a textured, shaded, or 3-D look,  use the Insert picture button to upload graphics made with your favorite graphics program. A few popular graphics programs are: Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint,

Editing HTML

Experts can tweak their pages by editing the HTML directly. Click the View settings button and click 'Edit HTML'. The editor will fill with the raw HTML of your page. Make the changes you want, and click the close button. The editor will return to displaying the rich text of your HTML.