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Objects On The Page
Whether you customize a template or create your own graphics from scratch, you can rotate, resize and
position anything on the page, anywhere you like. You can easily resize the page to be any required size
and add new web pages as required. Certain features, such as changing color schemes, work across all
pages simultaneously.
These are the basic types of page element:
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Text: Using the Text Tool you can create anything from single word headings to columns of
text or even blocks of text that flow from one block into another. You can also create bulleted or
numbered lists. The Text Tool InfoBar provides controls over the font, size, line spacing and
more. You can resize text either by using the Selector Tool or by selecting the text in the usual
fashion and choosing alternative point or pixel sizes. Perhaps surprisingly you can even rotate text
by any angle, and by using Repel text under (right click an object to see this option) you can
automatically flow text around objects on the page, such as photos.
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Graphics: Any type of logo, heading and most buttons that appear on your website are
graphics. Web Designer Premium is a vector graphics program which means you can edit the
shape, rotate and resize your graphic objects with no loss of quality (unlike pixel photo editing
tools such as Photoshop). And although there is no vector graphics standard for web pages (for
websites all graphics have to be either JPG, GIF or PNG formats) Web Designer Premium
creates the correct format and resolution automatically. For example, if you want to create a
colored panel to place behind your text, you'd do this by drawing a rectangle or rounded
rectangle object on the page, and placing this behind your text. When you save your website, this
is automatically converted into a PNG graphic image of the correct resolution.
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Photos: There are few websites that do not contain photos of some sort. Web Designer MX
Premium has a great range of photo editing tools. You can drag and drop photos directly from
your camera or File Explorer window onto the page, rotate, enhance, crop, and Web Designer
Premium automatically generates the correct resolution JPG image. Replacing existing photos in
templates is as easy as drag and drop - and you can alter the size and angle of photos 'inside'
their frame very easily. You can easily create clickable photo thumbnails that pop-up an enlarged
version and optionally include gallery controls that allow your visitors to browse your photos or
view an automatic slideshow.
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Placeholders: These are graphic objects on the page which represent the size and position of
dynamic "widgets" such as a Flash animations, movies, or forms. When your site is exported the
placeholder graphic is replaced by the code required to make the widget work and so the
working widget appears at the same position on your page. See the Website Widgets chapter in
the pdf manual for details.
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