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 Send e-mail Download Zip File