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Widget site membership
Some widgets may require you to open an account with the widget provider, before you can use them.
Most are free, but some offer premium services over and above the free offering. See each individual
widget and the information on the widget provider's site for details.
Editing existing widgets
At any time you can double click the widget placeholder (or right click and choose Edit Widget
) in your Web Designer Premium's page to return to the widget provider's website so you can easily
modify or replace the widget.
Those widget providers who give you an account, will normally also keep a copy of any widgets you've
created. This means you can sign into your account while going through the insertion process above and
then find, modify and insert a widget that you've created previously. Inserting existing widgets is just like
inserting newly created widgets ? just click Insert when you are offered the HTML code, or copy the
HTML code for the widget to the clipboard and then click Insert
.
Locally Editable Widgets
Some widgets that you drop onto your page from the Designs Gallery
won't open a browser window as described above for Web Editable Widgets. These are Locally
Editable Widgets that you edit directly in Web Designer Premium using a separate document window.
Editing
After dropping such a widget on your page, double click on it to edit. A new document window opens
in Web Designer Premium (we call this the widget's "editing document"). What that document window
shows will depend on the specific widget, but typically you'll see a multi-page document that allows you
to conveniently edit and customize all the content for the widget.
Normally there will be some specific instructions shown to the side of or above the first page, describing
what aspects of the widget you can edit in the document and other information about the widget. In most
cases, you can edit the text you see using the Text Tool, but you can't normally change the font or style
of the text. You can replace photos by dropping new photo files onto the images from Windows
Explorer, just as you replace photos in normal documents. And you can edit the photos using the Photo
Tool, adjust photos using the Fill Tool
, etc.
Look at each page in turn and customize the text and photos. Some objects may be locked (clicking on
them does nothing) which tells you that you can't edit that aspect of the widget, or perhaps it will be
modified by changing unlocked objects on one of the other pages. Any locked objects are present as a
visual aid, to help make the context of the unlocked editable parts of the design clear.
Adding more content
Some widgets will allow you to add more content to the widget by duplicating the pages shown (right
click on the page and choose Duplicate current page
). A slide show widget may allow you to add more photos to it this way. After duplicating a page, change
its photos or text as required. The instructions in the widget will tell you whether or not you can duplicate
pages in this way to add content.
If you make any changes that the instructions say should not be made, usually those changes will be
ignored. However you may cause a widget to malfunction so please change only the aspects of the design
that the instructions say can be modified.
Some widgets allow you to add clickable links - the instructions in each widget will make this clear.
Change any such links from their default values just as you would change links in a normal website
document.
Resizing
Some Locally Editable Widgets are resizable and others are not. Select the widget placeholder in your
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