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We are very excited about the release of the Web Studio Video Tutorials CD.
We're committed to providing the easiest to use web software and believe the addition of the videos will enable people to learn the program at an extremely accelerated rate. Read the feature article for all the details.
We're proud to announce that we've partned with "The Student Web Awards". This is an annual, nationwide version of our Site of the Month contest for high-school students. Schools who enter get a one year free license for Web Studio in their school.
Web Studio Video Tutorials CD Available Now!
We are excited to release our series of video tutorials for Web Studio 4.0. This CD continues our commitment to providing additional value and continual improvement for our products.
Nine months in the making, the CD contains two hours worth of tutorials covering 44 different topics. Each of the 44 videos is a bite-sized tutorial on a specific Web Studio topic. The videos show an animated Web Studio screen demonstrating each technique in "real-time". The user interface is a Web Studio website with hierarchial buttons to navigate to and display the desired tutorial.
Included in the package is the Getting Started video that takes you through the creation of a page. It illustrates the most used tools, commands, and techniques used to create a site. This one tutorial will enable you to rapidly create your site. The additional videos expand your knowledge and abilities with the remaining wealth of features in Web Studio.
You'll come away with comprehensive knowledge of the program's capabilities and features, how to use the features, and the insight to use the right feature at the right time. All this adds up to the creation of better, more sophisticated websites while doing it all in less time.
The "Using Galleries" section contains seven videos demonstrating everything you can do with galleries.
The "Objects" section contains twelve videos illustrating how to add objects to your page, different ways to select objects, moving them, editing them, how to resize them with the different tools available, all about stacking, duplicating, aligning, distributing, cropping, rotating, and merging.
There are two videos about text, four about multimedia, five illustrating links, and three for uploading.
The remaining topics include using backgrounds, buttons, dividers, clipart, animations, signs, protected graphics, cool stuff, photos, templates, special effects, and using Web Studio's property dialogs.
The Web Studio Video Tutorial CD is available now on the Web Studio website and is priced at $24.89. Since it is too large to download, it is shipped in the USA via USPS Priority Mail and via USPS Global Priority worldwide.
Congrats to DR and loulous_mom: our Site of the Month Winners for September!
● DR is our Designer winner
● loulous_mom, the Homepun winner.
Take a look at their sites by clicking the thumbnails above.
...How to activate the NetscapeText-Fix?
There has been some confusion with this new feature. This should clear it up. If you simply rebuild and upload your site with SP2, it will not correct the Netscape problem. You have to change a setting in the Web Site Properties dialog first.
To turn on this feature: Open your project; make sure a page in your site is open; go to the Website menu; choose Website Properties; click the Advanced Tab; put a check mark in the "Netscape Text Fix" check box. Then click OK. Once you re-build your site and upload it, the text will be in the correct position. Note that this check box will not be checked for your existing sites unless you check it.
...You can take a Screen Shot of your computer's screen and add it to Web Studio?
Many people want to add a graphic that is in another program, on a website, or on their desktop. You can take a screen shot (picture) of your desktop (screen) by pressing the "PrtScr" key in the Funtion keys on your keyboard. You won't see anything happen, but Windows will put a graphic of the desktop on the clipboard. You can then choose Paste from the Edit menu to paste the graphic onto your page.
The resutling graphic will be as large as your monitor and Web Studio will ask if you want to resize it or add it to the page at its actual size. Tell it to not resize the graphic. Once the graphic is on your page you can use the Cropping command to "trim" the top, bottom and sides of the graphic. This lets you isolate the portion of the graphic that is of interest to you. For example, if the desktop had two programs open when you took the screen shot and one of the programs had a picture you wanted to add to your site, you could crop out everything but the picture.
To use the Cropping tool in Web Studio, you click on the graphic, then press and hold the "C" key down (no need for the Shift key, however) and then resize the graphic. When you let go of the mouse button, the graphic will be trimmed (instead of resized). If you trimmed too much, just choose Undo and try again. Once you've let go of the mouse button you can let go fo the "C" key.
Bottom line is that with Cropping in Web Studio you can add anything to you site that you can see on your screen!
By the way, ever wonder how we get those small images of the Site of the Month winners's websites? Yup, we open the browser, go to their website, and follow the instructions above. Then we resize the resulting graphic. There is one more trick we use, however, we right click on the small graphic and choose ResampleGraphic from the menu. This creates a higher quality version of the resized graphic. Then we drag and drop the Sharpen effect from the Special FX gallery onto the graphic. We do this two or three times. It sharpens up the fine print and deails lost in resizing.
