MX

Object Based Web Design
All the types of elements described above are collectively referred to as objects.
One of the unique benefits of Web Designer Premium is that you have complete freedom to place any
object anywhere on the page, and your website will faithfully reproduce this.
The Selector Tool
can be used to select any object on the page, and to move (just drag
it), resize and rotate the objects.
You can adjust the stacking order (that is whether an object appears in front or behind others on the
page) by right clicking and choosing Arrange or using the Arrange menu options. With the Selector
Tool
you can resize objects by dragging on the corner resize handles. You can rotate any object by dragging
just inside the corner selection handles. And although websites do not support rotated text, Web
Designer Premium knows to automatically create the appropriate graphic image so the resulting page will
always look exactly right.
To add some text to your website, select the Text Tool
and click anywhere on the page and start typing.
You can also create text columns, by clicking and dragging horizontally in the Text Tool, or text areas by
dragging diagonally. See the Text section in the pdf manual for more details and the Chapter Text
Handling
for a complete reference of text functions of Web Designer MX Premium.
You can use the drawing tools to create rectangles, rounded
rectangles, circles and ellipses, and just about any shape you
like using the Shape Editor Tool. See the Drawing tools
section in the pdf manual for more detail.
Stacking Order
All objects on the page are placed one on top of another. The most recently drawn or created object is
always on top, that is, in front of any others. You can adjust the stacking position by right clicking and
choosing Arrange or using the Arrange
menu options.
For example, when you draw a new rectangle it always appears to cover all the objects behind it. By
right clicking and choosing Arrange or pressing "Ctrl + B" (or the menu "Arrange" > "Put to Back
") the object is moved behind everything else. Similarly "Ctrl + F" brings any selected object to the top,
that is, in front of everything else.
There is an added complication: layers. All objects are collected into named layers, and each layer can
be turned on or off to show or hide everything on that layer. See the Layers section
in the pdf manual for more detail.
The Page & Layer Gallery allows you to easily see and adjust the stacking order of objects and layers.
Objects are listed in order from front to back in the gallery. See the Page & Layer Gallery
chapter in the pdf manual for details.
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