WYSIWYG Web Builder Portable is a Web site building tool that helps you design and build full-featured Web sites without the need to learn HTML. When you preview or publish a page, Web Builder automatically generates the HTML code your browser needs to display pages.
How is WYSIWYG Web Builder different from a regular HTML editor?
The idea behind this application is to hide HTML from the user. Web Builder is not an HTML editor, but an HTML generator. You don't even have to know there is HTML involved. Just drag & drop images, text and other objects on your page and your page is ready to be published!
Web Builder does not edit the HTML directly, but it uses its own file format (.wbs) to store the information of the website. You can even store your complete website into one single file!
By not using HTML internally, Web Builder can do much more than just generate standard HTML objects: it supports shapes, drawings, navigationbars, rss feeds, blogs, photo galleries, ready to use javascripts and much more advanced objects.
If you like you can insert existing HTML to your page using the HTML tools (Page HTML and the HTML object. You can also insert custom attribute or other code to almost any object.
FrontPage, Dreamweaver etc use a document (word processor) method for layout, where you can not pick up objects and drag it where you want it to go on the web page. In WYSIWYG Web Builder you can drag and drop the objects anywhere you want. Giving you full control over the layout. You can even put objects on top (or below) other objects!
Traditional HTML editors use Dynamic Page Layout, which means that the first object on the page will also determine the position of the second object. Resizing or moving the first object will affect the complete layout of the page. You can't overlap objects when using Dynamic Page Layout.
WYSIWYG Web Builder Portable generates Fixed Page Layout. All objects have a fixed position which is not affected by other objects. This also allows you to overlap objects and give you much more control over the layout of the page.
Features:
- Drag and drop of HTML objects: Text, Lines, Images, Shapes, Forms, Tables and much more!
- HTML or XHTML output.
- Site Management. Easily add, edit, clone and structure your web pages.
- Customizable menus, toolbars, keyboard accelerators, dockable windows, tabs, auto hide unused windows.
- Form layout object to create forms, including actions, hidden fields etc.
- Supports Form fields: Edit box, Text Area, Checkbox, Radio button, Combo box and Button.
- Captcha object for (PHP) forms.
- Rich text support: text object can contain different fonts, colors, links and sizes.
- Shape object (Rectangle, Round rect, Ellipse, Diamond, Hexagon, Octagon, Parallelogram, Triangle, Trapezoid, Arrows, Flag, Flower, Heart, Signs, Stars and Talk Bubbles).
- JAVA, Flash, Windows Media player, YouTube, Quicktime, Real Audio and other Plug-In support.
- Build-in banner creator.
- Rollover image.
- Picture gallery object with built-in lightbox effects.
- Ready-to-use Javascripts.
- Navigation bars, Menu bars, Text menus, Slide menus and more.
- Image maps.
- Bulleted Lists (Circle, Disc, Square, Numeric, Alpha, Roman and custom images).
- Slide Show with many transition animations.
- Import existing HTML pages.
- Style Manager, a central place to update the styles of multiple objects. Including header style support for text objects (H1, H2, H3 etc).
- Customize hyperlink colors/format using cascading style sheets.
- Support for 3rd party add-ons (extensions) using the Web Builder Component Developers Kit (CDK).
- Extension Manager! Now you can download, install, update and uninstall extensions from within the software!
- Template support.
- Publish your entire web site, a single page or a group of pages in one action (to local drive or a web server).
- Master page object. This allows you to re-use objects from other pages.
- Clipboard Copy/Cut/Paste.
- Meta tags.
- Aligning functions.
- Custom HTML object to insert your own HTML or JavaScripts and the ability to add custom HTML for each object (Before Tag, Inside Tag, After Tag).
- Layer Object for advanced layout possibilities
- Find/Replace for text objects
- Validation tools for form components: EditBox, Combobox and TextArea
- Rotation for shapes and images
- Merge and split in tables and multi cell selection.
- Menubar now supports background images, transparency and sliding/fading effects.
- Table cell background image repeat properties, which allows you to put images inside cells without tiling.
- Quick Properties window for quick object manipulation.
- Ability to group/ungroup objects
- Image tools: Contrast, Brightness, Flip, Rotate, Crop, Reflection, Stencils and Resample.
- Image effects: Grayscale, Negative, Sepia, Blur, Soften, Sharpen, Pinch/Punch/Twirl, Noise, Emboss and More!
- Drawing tools: Line, Line + Arrows, Scribble, Polygon, Curve and Closed Curve.
- ClipArt and TextArt object
- Gradient Style Manager to add/edit and remove global (multi color) gradients effects.
- Photo gallery border styles/ photo frames
- Images, shapes and form controls have a new Events Property Page, to easily add actions to object events!
- You can now add multiple preview browsers and call them using the preview drop down menu.
- PayPal eCommerce Tools. The PayPal eCommerce Tools are the quickest and easiest way to add eCommerce to your web site!
- Page weight tool to determine the estimated size and download time of a page.
- Popup window support for links (with optinal position, size, toolbar, statusbar, scrollbars etc.)
- Smart links; link to the next, previous, parent or child page. Also close, reload or print page options have been added.
- Sitemap generator.
- RSS Feed object with podcast option.
- Blog with built-in RSS feed option.
- SiteTree object, display an overview of your website (SiteMap).
- Login Tools/Page Password Protection.
- Form Wizard, creating forms was never so easy! including the option to create a new form based on a template.
- Built-in FTP Client to manage your online files. The 'Explore' button in publish settings give you access to your published files.
- Fixed: Problem in HTML code of text background color in Login form.
- Fixed: Menubar font selection bug.
- Fixed: Text scroller in 'Ready-to-use-javascripts' FireFox compatibility.
- Improved: Copy/paste will now attempt to preserve the original ID of objects.
- New feature: Added the ability to remove a layer/form without its content: Hold down the SHIFT key while pressing Delete.
- New feature: Added style sheet sharing to WWB extension API. For future use...
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