Operation Manual

312 Lines, Shapes, and Effects
Using object styles
Object styles benefit your design efforts in much the same way as text styles
and color schemes. Once you've come up with a set of attributes that you like—
properties like line color, fill, border, and so on—you can save this cluster of
attributes as a named style. WebPlus remembers which objects are using that
style, and the style appears in the Styles tab, and can subsequently be applied to
new objects. For example a Quick Star can have a glass effect applied via an
object style you've saved previously (all object styles use a cog shape as the
default object preview type).
Here's how object styles work to your advantage:
• Each object style can include settings for a host of object attributes,
such as line color, line style, fill, transparency, filter effects, font, and
border. The freedom to include or exclude certain attributes, and the
nearly unlimited range of choices for each attribute, makes this a
powerful tool in the designer's arsenal.
• Any time you want to alter some aspect of the style (for example,
change the line color), you simply change the style definition.
Instantly, all objects in your site sharing that style update accordingly.
• Object styles you've saved globally appear not only in the original site
but in any new site, so you can reuse exactly the same attractive
combination of attributes for any subsequent design effort.