The Page Editor

Open the Page menu via the Menu Bar to access the Background options, right-click on the background portion of a page to access the context menu and choose Background. Either choose a solid color or drag an image to the Background panel to create a plain image or tiled background.

With the option “Tile Background Image” you can choose between regular tiling, horizonal or vertical tiling or whether you just prefer a single image as your background.

The background settings cannot be completely deleted. Every page must at least have a background color. When you drag the copy button from the Background page to the recycle bin, the preferences of the corresponding layouts from the page editor are carried over. In layout editor, a solid-white background without an image is placed. (Not sure this works/I understand).

A solid color background, such as white or dark grey, is frequently the aesthetically most pleasing choice. It also makes it easy for StudioLine to share images where appropriate.

Irregular textures with little contrast also make a nice background. They should not show any visible margins when tiled nor interfere with the readability of text.

Busy images, strong contrasts, or geometric patterns may be very distracting. They also introduce a number of issues when graphics with transparent areas appear on a page.

When transparent images are placed on a page, some of the tiled background will show through. However, during rendering, a cut-out of the tiled background is incorporated into the graphics file used by the browser. If for instance, a page is given a centered orientation, the objects move in relation to the background, when the size of the internet browser is altered. Background images with geometric or other regular patterns (such as text or logos) may yield less suitable results.

Following are some examples of effects, dimensions, and backgrounds relative to a single object.

Here is a simple 'at' (@) character, created by using the text tool and choosing a font color. The blue markers indicate the character’s height and width. Because a button effect and a drop shadow were added, during the creation of the HTML data the text is converted to an image. The @ character and shadow do not fill the entire solid rectangular area. In some areas, the white background color is visible. Notice also that because of the drop shadow, the dimensions of the resulting image file are now larger than the original height and width indicated by the blue markers. Now, as in this example, when the background is used with a visible pattern, the background becomes visible within the image as well. During the creation of the HTML dada, StudioLine unites the respective background pattern with the graphic data, that is prepared for the browser use. As this image is moved for use in other locations on the page, the grid pattern may not align. Thus it is illustrated that a regular, geometric pattern (such as squares) can be a poor choice for backgrounds. An exception is when a pages' content is composed by alignment with the upper lefthand corner.

If, however, regular pattern backgrounds are your preferred design choice, then you should:

• use only non-graphical text,
• use rectangular images without shadows or soft edges, or
• use the Backdrop image tool to place images and text over solid color rectangles, or
• place images and text on top of a non-transparent rectangular image.

This allows you to create information that can be connected to every page. In the Layout and Page Editor modes open the window in the Page menu under the Page Descriptors tab. Several of these descriptors control how search engines find and index the pages on your website.

Page Title - This is the title that the user's of your website will see in their web browser window and that will be displayed by search engines. Preset value: PageName

Author - The name of the web page author. Preset value: RegisteredUser

Copyright - Copyright information

Keywords - A list of keywords and sentences that are separated by commas that are displayed on the page, or have some bearing upon the content of the site. Keywords are used by search engines to locate your webpages. Keep your list to a maximum of 1000 characters and enter it in lower case.

Description - Description of the page content which will be primarily used by search engines. The description should be limited to 200 characters.

Parsing by Search Engines - This field allows you to control the kind of information a search engine robot collects about your site. This field allows you to input META tags and attributes for your page which will control a robot's behavior. For instance, you may not want your images, error messages, or any media to be indexed by the robot. Or you do not want any of the links associated with a certain page indexed. These are the types of meta-tags you can input in this field. Note that many search engines treat these terms slightly differently.

• NOINDEX: Instructs a search engine not include a page in its index (search results).
• NOFOLLOW: Instructs a search engine not to follow any of the links in a page.
• NOARCHIVE: Instructs a search engine not to provide archived copies of a page to its users.
• NOIMAGEINDEX: Instructs a search engine not to index images.
• NOMEDIAINDEX: Instructs a robot not index any video or sound media.

Under the Text tab in the Preferences menu you have options for setting your text. A panel at the top of the window previews your selections.

Font - You can choose from a list of available fonts.

Text Width - Provides the text width for new text objects.

Size - Choose the size in pixels.

Style - Choose if you would like your text italicized, bold, or underlined.

Ignore font and size of the pasted text - Normally it is possible to paste text from the clip board of the StudioLine website pages and layouts so that hte font, size and style remains the same. However, if you have clicked this box in your text preferences, the characteristics of the pasted text will be ignored. Instead, new text will be adapted to fit the characteristics of text on the page onto which it is being pasted.