Operation Manual

Working with Text 47
Now that you’ve seen the “big picture”—how WebPlus integrates
pages and master pages into an overall site structure—it’s time to shift
focus to the tools and elements that you’ll use to design each page. In
this chapter we’ll look at how to add standard text and change the
layout of text on the page. It’s really not complicated at all!
Typically, text in WebPlus goes into text frames, which work equally
well as containers for single words, standalone paragraphs, or multi-
page articles or chapter text. You can also use artistic text for
standalone text with special effects, or table text for row-and-column
displays.
About text frames
Most ordinary text in WebPlus fits into text frames. Frames work
equally well as containers for single words or standalone paragraphs.
Two or more frames can be linked together so the enclosed text flows
from the first frame to the second, and so
on—like a newspaper article with multiple
columns. Whether there’s a single frame or
more than one in series, the enclosed frame
text is called a story.
Our hands-on sequence will thread continuously through this chapter.
Let’s begin by investigating how our template site employs frame text.
 Display the Home page of the H
ANDSON.WPP project and adjust
the screen view if necessary so you can read the page text.
 Using the
Pointer tool—the default tool for selecting,
moving, and resizing objects, including the boxes that contain
text—click the block of text below the heading “Welcome to Our
Company.”
 Now click the text block to the right of the first one, starting with
the words “Be sure to explore...”
In each case, clicking selects a text frame, displayed as a rectangle with
a gray bounding box and small gray “handles.”
