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User: Susan R. 11 years ago
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Please--basic word processing text features! It's great to be able to approximate these through widgets, but what a hassle to need to open and program a widget every time you want a bullet, a hanging indent, etc. We should be able to do these seamlessly through typing without missing a beat. It makes webpage creation take eons longer than it should. If you look through the feature requests users have posted, 23 people commented on the one for text processing features, more than almost any other request. That shows how much we need this! I'm loving EverWeb, but may never get my website finished because I'm still fooling with text! |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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iWeb was a revolutionary app in its day but one of its biggest faults was that it was based on a DTP (Desktop Publishing) app and used features that are not appropriate to web design. Now, a huge number of those creating websites with drag and drop apps are regarding a web page as a piece of paper - which it definitely is not. Web browsers don’t understand print media and attempting to emulate print elements in a web page is a recipe for a garbled mess of code which the search engine spiders will not understand! Most of the inefficiencies in drag and drop website designs stem from the users lack of knowledge and understand of how an HTML document is created and the way in which the browser interprets it. Here’s some info about the subject of non compliant code… http://www.htmlbasictutor.ca/clean-compliant-html-code.htm EverWeb gives us the tools to create a well coded, compliant website. It up to us to learn to use them. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Susan R. 11 years ago
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Well, that's what made iWeb so appealing--that we didn't have to learn to code. And I thought that's what EverWeb was about--being the successor to iWeb and taking it to new heights. Does this mean there are no plans EVER for more text tools? If so, that's extremely disappointing. I thought I was getting a better iWeb, not something with less functionality. Surely there's a way for you to give us text tools that are compliant. |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Web design has moved forward a lot since iWeb and the need for faster downloading sites with sensible and efficient code has made it redundant. I'm sure the developers will add more functionality through time. EverWeb is developing very fast with the addition of new functions almost on a monthly basis. We can't expect everything all at once. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: John S. 11 years ago
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Editing via widget is unworkable - if a page has two paragraphs, then a series of bullets, then some paragraphs - just not doable... Only a fraction of the text is visible in the widget inspector, so editing text is tedious. No justification is available either. Nor can I insert a rectangle into a text box and then replace the rectangle with adsense code. Having text editing & formatting on par with iWeb would be huge. I'd love to see a development roadmap. If this coming in 1.7 - great! If it several releases out, then I need to know. I have several very large websites needing migration (500+ webpages). I've done several test pages and it is taking me 2 to 4 hours to recreate a page. Migrating to Everweb is a serious time investment (for me). |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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The creative process for a well designed and laid web page is to sketch the layout or create a wireframe, assemble the content such as text files, optimized images and any custom code and then add them to the page in the order in which they will appear in the browser from top to bottom. If you are transferring a site that was originally designed in another application, you already have a wireframe. This will make it a lot easier to place the elements in the correct order in the HTML document - supplemented with HTML headings for SEO. The widget inspector is not adequate for editing - code or text - and isn’t intended for this purpose. The content for these boxes, along with the rest of the website material, should be created and assembled before the web design app is opened. Justified text is an outdated relic of the print industry and should never be used in web design. More info HERE. Quote: Nor can I insert a rectangle into a text box and then replace the rectangle with adsense code. Inserting items like this was typical of the bodged up methods required in iWeb to compensate for its lack of true code injection. A lot of iWeb users didn’t seem to realise that items inserted via the HTML snippet were on a completely separate page! If you want to insert adsense with text wrap you could ask in the “How do I..?” section. Using EverWeb’s code injection, these will appear in the actual page HTML doc rather than in another file somewhere in the site folder. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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