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Welcome
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Registration
This User Guide
interactive Task Monitor Tab
Online Resource Manager
Save as Package
Backup to the Web
Slider design studio
Scrolling Animations
Embeddable Fonts
Audio Player
New Filter Effects and Settings
Pin it!
Image Watermarking
Magnifier
Galleries in Date Order
Quick Image Optimization
New Site Search
New User Management Controls
Custom CSS and HTML Attributes
Export as Widget
SFTP Secure File Transfer
Installation procedure (from disc)
Installation procedure (from download)
System Requirements
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Welcome <TOP>
Welcome to WebPlus X8 from Serif—the easiest way to get your
business, club, organization, personal interest, or household on the web!
To make life so much easier, WebPlus offers you a simple way to build
websites visually, without having to learn or use any traditional web
programming. WebPlus comes with an impressive selection of design
templates, page navigation bars, creative assets, and styles for you to
use. Full-
ready-
website, no prior experience required! You'll also be able to reuse your
existing content by importing word processing documents, images, and
many other files.
To make the most of pictures in your site you can use Cutout Studio to
remove backgrounds and PhotoLab for powerful image adjustment and
effect combinations. You simply cannot afford to miss them!
WebPlus X8 doesn't just stop at "static" web publishing. The real power
comes when adding and managing dynamic or interactive content, such
as forms, blogs, forums, video playlists, and third-
Also add modern essentials such as panels, sliders, and Google Maps,
plus Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ widgets. You can even make use
of easy e-
donation features.
Once you're happy with your WebPlus site, simply publish to the web to
share with business colleagues, customers, friends and family alike.
Registration <TOP>
Don't forget to register your new copy, using the Registration Wizard,
on the Help menu. That way, we can keep you informed of new
developments and future upgrades!
This User Guide <TOP>
The WebPlus X8 User Guide is provided for the new or inexperienced
user to get the very best out of WebPlus. As the program is packed with
a wealth of features, this User Guide doesn't cover all product
functionality, but instead focuses on core and frequently used features.
For comprehensive assistance, please use WebPlus Help (press your F1
key).
New features <TOP>
WebPlus X8 (in 32 and 64-
• Interactive Task Monitor Tab (see p. 154) The tab acts as a personal design assistant that keeps track of your project and fixes design issues for you. It knows about the state of objects, pages and the site all the time, and can warn about potential problems, remind you to accomplish certain tasks, offer hints, and list issues from the last time a site was published. You can also add your own reminders.
• Online Resource Manager (see p. 114) Instead of linking large files from your computer and publishing them with your site, the new online resource manager lets you upload media and other files to a remote server. It remembers the addresses of the files, and makes them available when you are choosing resources while designing your site. This allows you to upload once and use repeatedly, and to host large files on a different server from your website without complications
• Save as Package Share your WebPlus file or make it easier to move from one computer to another by saving it as a package—a single file that contains your WebPlus site design, the fonts you've used, and any linked images and other resources. Opening the package on another computer will unpack the design and other resources so you can carry on working.
• Backup to the Web (see p. 30) Protect your site design from hardware failure or accidental deletion by backing it up to a remote server at any time (as a regular WebPlus file or Package). Access the new backup command from the File menu at key stages to keep your design safe.
Design and Multimedia <TOP>
• Slider Studio (see p. 68) A dedicated slider design studio lets you easily configure settings and animation options, add and remove slider panels, and design each panel of the slider. Import images, add text, drag and drop your favorite assets, use graphic design tools to create shapes and apply fills and colors, even apply one-
• Scrolling Animations (see p. 59) Two new types of animation give your site a slick and modern feel. Add Slide on Scroll to objects as an action, making them appear and disappear from the side of the screen and fade in and out as they are scrolled in or out of view. For longer pages with anchors, set a smooth scrolling behavior to give the site professional polish.
• Embeddable Fonts Embed fonts with your site to ensure text looks exactly as you intend, without converting fancy styles to images on publishing. A new category of embeddable fonts in the Fonts Welcome 5 tab joins the recently used and websafe categories in your font list, and they can be uploaded with your site for automatic downloading with site content for a better browsing experience.
• Audio Player (see p. 120) Give visitors an easy way to hear your music and other audio files in your website with a customizable audio player that uses the latest HTML5 technology for efficiency and broad compatibility. Add single tracks or entire playlists; the audio player features all the normal controls you'd expect to find including volume and track skipping.
• New Filter Effects and Settings A new Trail filter effect gives logos and other designs a striking retro style, and new options allow fine tuning of feathering, drop shadows and other effects.
• New photo editing tools and effects Vibrance, Split Tone, Tilt Shift, and Clarity PhotoLab filters add fantastic effects to enhance pictures, plus new tools offer selective editing and photo repair. Now control vignette positioning and sizing. Blend effects smoothly across an area using gradient masks, and remove unwanted blemishes, clutter or imperfections with a clone brush.
Photo Tools <TOP>
• Pin it! (see p. 40) Add an interactive 'Pin it' button to share photos on Pinterest, the popular image interest service. The button appears when the image is hovered over and is easily added in WebPlus as an action.
• Image Watermarking (see p. 39) Protect original photography, artwork and other valuable images by adding a watermark. Once you design a watermark it can be incorporated into images when you publish your and does not modify original photo files. Choose text or a logo, set transparency, size, tiling and other options, and see a preview of your watermark while you design it.
• Magnifier (see p. 39) Set an area on your page to show a magnified image, with settings for zoom controls and mouse wheel operation. Optionally set the image extent as the magnifier area, so visitors can zoom and pan around inside an image without requiring extra page space.
• Galleries in Date Order (see p. 69) WebPlus photo galleries now offer a way for photos to be displayed in order by date taken, so you can more easily tell a story with a sequence of pictures.
• Quick Image Optimization Images can be optimized automatically when you publish your site, and there's also a new way to select multiple images and scale them to the size at which they are used in the site, in one go, in the Resource Manager.
Interactivity and Output <TOP>
• New Site Search (see p. 88) An improved site search feature indexes content from blogs, forums and other Smart Objects in addition to regular website content. Tags can be added to pages to help categorize and fine tune site search results to just those pages.
• New User Management Controls (see p. 99) User accounts now have a new site membership control to join the existing mailing list signup and website login controls. The site membership control offers access to profiles, avatars, screen names, passwords and list subscriptions. Welcome 7
• Custom CSS and HTML Attributes Attach custom HTML attributes and custom CSS properties to objects, without converting the object to code and without entering the code editing view. Simply add the new attributes via the object's Properties dialog.
• Export as Widget Output interactive elements of your websites as widgets that can be incorporated into other websites, whether hand coding or using other web design software. Navigation bars, popup menus, photo galleries, sliders and many other WebPlus designed features can be exported, including the necessary HTML, scripts and graphics files.
• SFTP Secure File Transfer (see p. 157) Enable SFTP for secure file transfer and secure file management when publishing and connecting to remote servers, if the protocol is supported by the server.
Installation <TOP>
Installing WebPlus follows different procedures depending on whether you are installing from disc or via download.
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You can install your new version alongside previous versions and use them independently.
32 or 64-
computers.
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Installation procedure (from disc) <TOP>
• Insert your purchased disc into your disc drive.
• If AutoPlay is enabled on the drive, this automatically starts the Setup Wizard. Follow the on-
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• If AutoPlay is not enabled (or doesn't start the install automatically), navigate to your program disc and doubleclick autorun.exe.
Installation procedure (from download) <TOP>
• From serif.com, when logged into your Serif account, follow
the on-
System Requirements <TOP>
Minimum:
• Windows-
• Operating systems:
Windows® 8 (32 or 64 bit)
Windows® 7 (32 or 64 bit)
Windows® Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Microsoft Windows® XP SP3 (32 bit)
• PC Memory:
512MB RAM (Windows® XP)
1GB RAM (Windows® Vista and 32-
2GB RAM (For 64-
• Hard Drive Space:
281MB free hard disk space for physical media install (and a
DVD drive)
396MB free hard disk space for download install (additional
space required during installation)
• 1024 x 768 monitor resolution (at 100% scaling)
1280 x 960 monitor resolution (at 125% scaling)
1536 x 1152 monitor resolution (at 150% scaling)
2048 x 1536 monitor resolution (at 200% scaling)
• Other:
Internet Explorer 9
Internet account and connection required for publishing to
web and accessing online resources
* Main processor must support SSE2 instructions.
Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large
and/or complex sites.
Optional:
• Windows-
• TWAIN-
• .NET 2.0 for text import filters (Word 2007/2010 +
OpenOffice) (installed by default; for Windows 8, an extra 1GB
of free hard disk space is required)