New
What's New in Web Studio 3.0
There's over 50 new features and enhancements. Many are listed here.
Simplify the creation and maintenance of complex sites with the
new
Frames feature. WebStudio will automatically create
frames for page headers, navigation bars, page footers, etc.
There are eight different "flavors" of frames to choose from.
Frames
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add a header frame
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add a navigation frame
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add a footer frame
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already knows who you are and where to put your site.
iHostStudio is included in Web Studio 3.0 and has four months
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capabilities.
Web Site Hosting
Upload individual pages to the net and save tons of time with
the new
Save Page to Internet feature. There's no longer any
need to upload your entire site to make just a few changes.
Combine this with iHostStudio's speed and its changes only
uploading
and you're flying!
Single Pages Uploads
Save time during site design with the Preview This Page
feature. You don't need to wait until your entire site builds in
order to preview the page you're working on. Really nice for
those sites with lots of pages.
Single Page Previews
Gallery Magic
Using your own content has never been easier. Just about
every Gallery now works like the MyStuff Gallery! That's right,
the flexibility built into MyStuff is now available everywhere.
You can delete Backgrounds you don't want, add your own
Buttons, add Photos from your disk, move things around and
more. Make a bunch of new Rollover Buttons and add them to
the Button Gallery. Insert a family picture into the Backgrounds
Gallery and drop it on a Text Object for really cool results (the
picture fills all of the characters in the text).
Add Galleries to
Galleries
Add entirely new Galleries from the WebStudio.com web site.
Web Studio can now accept downloaded content from the
WebStudio.com site and automatically add it to your existing
Galleries. Web Studio finds it and automatically adds it even
while it is running! It just magically shows up!
Add animated spice to your site with new Rollover Buttons.
Create them using Web Studio's brand of simplicity. There are
two "flavors" of Rollovers, picture Rollovers and color Rollovers.
You choose the color for the up, down and over states of the
color buttons and add text with any font, size, style or color.
The picture buttons have three graphics that make up the three
states along with the option to add text with any font, size, style
or color. You can change the properties of either flavor of
Rollover at any time with the Rollover Studio.
Rollover Buttons
press these buttons
A new Rollover Buttons Gallery has been added and filled with
pre-made Rollover Buttons.
Save mega-tons of time with the new Duplicate page feature.
Press the Duplicate button and the current page is duplicated.
This is really handy when you want to have common look
across many pages.
Duplicate pages
Automatically Center your web site's pages in the browser's
window with Tables.
Centered Pages
Automatically center objects relative to each other or relative to
the page with
Center Selected Objects and Center to Page.
Center Objects
The Backgrounds Gallery has reached its third generation with
really exciting new functionality. You can drag and drop any
background onto any object, including the background of a page.
Dropping a texture onto a graphic texturizes the graphic with
the background, like the Patterns gallery does. Dropping a
texture onto text fills the characters that make up the text with
the color texture. A texture dropped onto the page yields a tiled
page background just like the Background Gallery always has.
Textures
...for Textured Graphics
...for Textured Text
An Automatic Picture Frame feature have been added. A new
gallery of fourty+ picture frames has been added to the Special
FX gallery. Drag a picture frame onto any object and it
immediately gets wrapped with the frame. They even work with
text objects!
Picture Frames
The Automatic Thumbnail feature has been added. You simply
drop the Thumbnail FX onto a full size photo or graphic and the
Thumbnail Studio comes up to enable you to choose thumbnail
size and rollover text. Web Studio automatically creates a link
for you that brings up a pop-up browser window with the full size
graphic in it.
Thumbnails for
Graphics
Click for full size image Click for full size image
click on a thumbnail for a full size photo
Spice up your pages with other exciting new FX, including
Multiple Light Sources, Graffiti, Antique, and many new
Patterns and Edges, as well as Textured and Photo filled Text.
New Special FX
Add dramatic new life to your photos with two new features:
Color Saturation FX and the Color Saturation option in the Photo
Enhancement wizard.
Color Saturation
Add dimension to your color pages with new drop shadows that
look great against colored backgrounds (they're now "anti-
aliased" automatically).
Nicer Drop Shadows
Export important page elements for use in any program with the
new
Save Graphic and Save Text commands. Also enables you
to use Web Studio as your graphics program!
Save Graphics and Text
Know if your getting close you your web site's storage size
limits with the new
Page Size feature.
Page Size
Know how long downloads will take with the new Download
Time
features.
Download Times
Empty Text Objects now have a dashed-line border around
them so you can see where they are when they are not active.
Once text is added to the Text Object, the border goes away.
Empty Text Objects
Dragging and Dropping object between pages is now available.
Hold down the CTRL and SHIFT keys and drag any object to
another Web Studio Page. For that matter, you can
drag and
drop objects to any other program or WebStudio Gallery
as well!
Drag Between Pages
Push Objects
Use the innovative Push command to push all objects below
the selected object. Use Push to make room for new objects on
your page. Then use
Pull to tighten up the remaining space.
Equal Height & Width
The new Equal Height and Equal Width commands enable you
to make objects the same height and/or width, not just the
same size!
Web Studio now builds web sites with HTML 4.0 or HTML 3.2.
Your viewers can't get "stuck" on your home page anymore!
No More Sticky Home
Page
Save memory space with the new Clear Undo Lists command
in the Edit menu.
Clear Undo Lists
If you add HTML to WebStudio's built in objects or if you write
you own with the HTML Object, the new
HTML editor will ease
those tasks.
HTML Editor
If you edit WebStudio's HTML, the new Site Info feature will
help. Among other things, it will tell you the path to the most
recently built site on your local drive.
Site Info
Add interest to your slide shows by setting individual durations
for each slide.

Enhanced Slide
Shows
Slide Shows display the first image in the show as the place
holder graphic. You'll see how the slide show fits in with the
visual style of your page right in the Web Studio editor.
Create "web safe" file names every time with automatic
notification of problem names and suggested changes when
using HTML objects and Cool Stuff.
File Name Checking
Position your text exactly as you want it with the new Non-
Resizing Text Object
feature. Size the object to whatever you
need and it stays that size no matter what happens to the text
in contains. And, you can turn any standard text object into a
non-resizing one at any time, and vice-versa.
Non-Resizing Text
Objects
Insert New Text Object has been added to the Insert menu.
This simplifies adding new, empty text objects to the page.
Insert Text Object
Text objects are now perfectly behaved on all operating
systems, even Win XP. They appear correctly sized for the
selected font size, automatically resize to fit text, flow text
predictably when resized manually and stay selected after
changing styles, fonts, etc..
Behaved Text
Hyperlinks in text are perfectly behaved. They stay anchored
when text is edited and during cut and paste operations and
during any other operation that changes the text..
Behaved Links
You can Preview Links in the Links Gallery by holding the Ctrl
key down while you double click on a link. This enables you to
check for valid links before you use them.
Link Preview
The Object Properties dialog now enables you to change the
right and bottom coordinates of an object. This enables you to
move, resize, and align objects with numeric precision relative
to any side of an object.
Enhanced Properties
An Object's Type is displayed in the status bar when you pass
the mouse it.
Identify Object Types
A new concept of Editors, or Studios has been added to Web
Studio. You're familiar with the way the text object's editor is
activated via a double click on the object. Now, every object
with an editor has the same property. You simply double click
on an HTML object to bring up the HTML editor, double click on
a Rollover Button to bring up the Rollover Studio.
Studios for Editing
Save time and simplify you site creation with all of the new
keyboard shortcuts.
More Keyboard
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