There are some really exciting changes and additions to the publishing
process that we’ll look at next.
1.
There is a lot of interest these days in optimizing your website for
search engines (SEO Search Engine Optimization). One component
of this process is a Site Map, a document that helps the search
engines categorize your content. You can now automatically
create a Site Map by entering the full URL (including http://) for
your site. Web Designer 7 Premium places this file in the main
directory. In addition to the sitemap, a file named robots.txt is
also published to the same location. The robots.txt file simply
tells search engine crawlers the location of your Site Map file
allowing them to identify and crawl the pages of your website.
2.
You can add a link to your website by checking the Include My
Website in the User Gallery check box. A thumbnail image and
link to your website will be added to the Magix website.
3.
Explore Web Space provides the ability to manage your files on
the server as shown below (a much requested ability).
Shown above is the Explore Web Space dialog. It is similar to most FTP
programs except you cannot drag and drop files from your computer to
the server. But you can use it to manage the files on your server.
Primarily you can use it to delete files. The house icon takes you to the
root directory. The blue folder icon with the arrow moves up one level
and the X icon deletes selected files. You can use Shift or Ctrl to select
files. Notice the sitemap.xml and robots.txt files as well as the HTML
files and index_html_files folder, which contains favicon.ico file.
Adding placeholder scripts and code to your website has been
simplified. The Placeholder tabbed section now has two buttons, one
for inserting code and scripts into the Body section, and a button for
inserting code into the Head portion of your placeholder.
In addition to adding code to placeholders you can add code to
individual pages, both head and body sections. And, you can globally
add HTML code to your entire website using the two buttons in the
Website tabbed section. For example, the code shown above, will drop
the top of the page down 20 pixels so your actual page starts down 20
pixels and a bit of background shows above the page. If you add the
code globally, you only need to do it one time.
By default, objects that go off the edges of the page, are cropped to
the edge of the page. But now you can un-check Clip to Page Edges if
you want objects to extend beyond the page such as the arrow shown
here. This can be used to break the borders of the page.
Repel Text on Layer Only Many of us were puzzled in the past when
text mysteriously repelled for no apparent reason. This was caused by
an object on a separate layer that was set to repel text on that layer,
and that was subsequently repelling text across all page layers.
This setting is a little finicky. But it works. First set your layer up to
repel text on that layer only, then select the repelling object, bring it
to the top, right click, and set to repel. Click here to see this in action.
This arrow
is overlapping
the edge of
the page!
the favicon.ico
file is in here
Here is some sample text that has
been placed on a new layer and a
arrow graphic has been added to this
new
layer and set to repel text (but on this
layer only) and does not repel the text on the layer below.
Set your layer properties first then set the object to repel.