This version of AOLpress allows you to create frames within Web pages, has a cleaner look, and gives you faster responses. (If you are moving from v1.1 or earlier to v2.0, check out the new features in v1.2.)
New feature categories:
Frames let you divide the page window into sections. See the page on Using Frames for details on how to create frames with AOLpress.
The windows in the software are cleaner and clearer.
The Absolutize/Relativize buttons have been replaced with smaller Abs/Rel buttons.
The File menu contains a "New" submenu that lets you create any of the following items: Pages, MiniWebs, and FrameSets.
You can create an e-mail link by choosing the
ElementE-mail
Link menu item. Then type the e-mail address of the person you want the
link to send mail to. If you select text before choosing
Element
E-mail
Link, that text will become a link. If you did not select anything first,
the e-mail address will automatically be added to the page and linked.
If you leave your mouse cursor motionless over a link for a second, AOLpress
shows the link location in a blue popup area. You can turn off these popups
by choosing
HelpShow Page
Popups. (Windows only)
You can create "bulletins" for links and for pages. Bulletins store a description you provide and the date the link was created. (Bulletins can also allow you to notify users of Smart Bookmarks by FirstFloor when you update your pages.)
AOLpress displays transparent GIF images correctly even if your images are on top of a background image.
You can set the exact Width and Height of an image in the window
you see when you choose the
ElementImage
menu item. You can still resize images by dragging their borders with the
mouse, too. To reset the width and height to the
actual size of the image, open the Image window and remove the values from
the Width and Height fields. When you click OK, the
image will return to its actual size.
You can convert a table to ordinary paragraphs by putting the cursor in the
table and choosing the
FormatRemove
Table Format menu item.
You can center a table by putting the cursor in the table and choosing the
TableCenter
Table menu item. You can uncenter a table by choosing the
Table
Uncenter
Table menu item.
MiniWebs now have a white background. The links in a name or title MiniWeb view have a colored background.
If you use
"server-side
includes
(SSI)" (also
called "server-parsed HTML") to automatically include other files, environment
variables, or the results of programs in your pages, you can now edit your
source code with AOLpress (if your pages are stored on a v2.0 or later
AOLserver).
To make AOLpress load the HTML source files without interpreting the server-side
include commands, choose
ToolsPreferences
General and put a
check in the "Never Load" box for Server Side Includes. If you are viewing
the HTML for a page, you can choose
File
Reload
without SSI to see the server-side include commands and
File
Reload
with SSI to see the results when the commands are interpreted.
Server-side include commands are stored as comments in the HTML code, so you only see them when you edit the HTML. For example, the command to include a file called "include.txt" would look like:
<!--#include file="include.txt" -->
When you highlight something in your page and leave your mouse cursor motionless
over the selection for a second, AOLpress shows the HTML code behind the
selection in a pink popup area. You can turn off these popups by choosing
HelpShow Page
Popups. (Windows only)
When you choose
EditFind/Replace
from a MiniWeb window, you can choose to search the HTML behind your pages
by putting a check mark in the Search HTML box. Normally, AOLpress
searches only the text that is visible in your pages.
The following new HTML features are supported if you add them to your pages by editing the HTML directly.
WRAP=Physical
attribute for a TEXTAREA in a form is supported.
(However, WRAP=Virtual
is not supported.)
<SPACER>
tagSTYLE
attribute
and Style Sheets on the SPAN
and DIV
tags.