Viewing The bare essentials , please add these asap.

The bare essentials , please add these asap.



User: Peter B. 11 years ago
Hi

I have been using the software for quite some time and in general it's a great tool but it lacks the most essential things.
Please add these options as I feel these are really essential for normal web page markup.

1. Tables*
2. Numbered lists ( dotted, numbered etc ) *
3. Show all div's option ( so you can find and modify a div that's gone rogue )
4. Automatically change cursor in relation to background*

( I often find myself searching for my cursor as it's often too small to see and it's grey. This make sit had to find on any grey or dark background. Making it auto-contrast will make it easier to spot, or perhaps even allow the user to set a color ? )

5. Show markup tags
( With this I am actually referring to the function there is in several other programs where you can switch on extra markup so you can see the End Of Line or Return codes so you can easier see where you have to remove spaces or Carriage returns )

6. Edit Source
( It would be beneficial at times to be able to edit the source HTML code. Adding items through HTML Widget isn't always the best option )

7. HTML Widget
( Nice to add optional items this way but it would be nice if we could make up these codes so we do not have to put font and color specifications in these html codes as well )

8. Form send widget*
( A nice add on would be if we could finally make our own forms ( add text and other form items ) and have 1 widget that we could add to that page which would automatically search for the number of form items in the page and send these, regardless if there were 3 or 30 items on the page ) Seems to me to be possible with some php or java-scripting as the current widget is way too limited to be of any use at all.

The ones I marked with * are the ones I need the most.

Last edit 11 years ago
User: Ros I. 11 years ago
Yes, I totally agree - I have been asking for these essentials to be included sooner rather than later since before 1.5 was launched.

Tables, numbered and bullet lists and I'm sorry, placing a full stop before writing text is not an acceptable workaround for this.

Come on - even iWeb had basics like this - it's all very well working on more advanced stuff, but please include basics before this.
User: George P. 11 years ago
I have to concur with these. These are pretty essential and have caused a lot of headaches in terms of trying to work around them.

As far as a contact form or such widget, we'd need some additional gears and something like the following would work in a Jekyll scenario, which would be quite nice: http://www.tommyblue.it/2012/08/28/create-a-contact-form-for-jekyll/

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