To make an image like that above, insert the code line just above as normal text. Specify your image source (folder and file name) with single inverted commas. The alt tag is optional, but the recommendation is that you put it in.
While still in the Text Editor under Options > Options and Filters ..., uncheck these two filters:
On this page are a few advanced topics that shouldn't be in the main body of the tutorials, but which may still be of interest to those interested in such things!
Multiple custom colors
The color dialog (e.g. Quick Editor > Shading tab > Pick) is a Windows standard, used in many other programs. It acts the same there too. It is fairly easy to use, but it is not clear how to select more than one custom color.
To set custom colors:
Click the button Define Custom Colors
Click the custom color box you want to change -- it should have a little rectangle around it
In the large color window on the right, click the hue you want
This changes the vertical color band at the far right showing the luminances of that hue
Move the triangular slider to the luminance you want or click in the vertical color band
The box marked Color|Solid should change as you do these steps
Click Add To Custom Colors
The trap is that if the triangular slider is set "no luminance" (slider at its lowest) you can click anywhere in the large color window and nothing seems to happen. Any hue at zero luminance is black!
You can set a sequence of custom colors by looping through the steps 2 to 7. Each Add To click will fill out the next custom color in sequence -- continuing on from the color box selected in Step 2.
Text Editor Options and Filters
The Text Editor includes the ability to set various options and to filter special characters that may otherwise cause problems when converted to HTML. Customize these Options and Filters by opening the Options Menu - Options and Filters dialog. Some of the Options that are available include:
Enabling or disabling hyperlinks
Enabling or disabling the spell checker
Enabling or disabling the filters
Some of the filters that are available include:
Enabling the Extended Character Set
Converting characters " < > & to the special character format
Padding multiple blank characters
Converting multiple line breaks to paragraphs
Let's look at quotes in particular. The same logic applies to angle brackets <>, and the ampersand &. Normally the program converts any double quote marks you enter in the Text Editor to ".
Double quotes get an extensive workout in the published HTML code, where they have special meanings to browsers. If you could enter the same kind of quotes directly in your text, browsers would misinterpret them as HTML commands and cause havoc on your page. When this program converts quotes to ", it avoids this problem -- that's the normal default operation. Whenever a browser meets a " in HTML, it automatically displays it as the quote mark ".
Occasionally, you want to type a real HTML command into your page (perhaps to display an inline image). In this case you would disable the convert quotes filter, because then you really do want the quotes to be interpreted as HTML.
So you don't need to worry about those filters unless you want the text you are importing to be interpreted as HTML. For normal use, turning them off would be a Bad Thing -- some of your text might be interpreted as HTML and give strange results when you publish.
Moving pages around
As you create each new page, it appears at the bottom of the drop-down page list at the top of your workpage and also in the Page Editor.
You may prefer a different grouping, perhaps wanting to group similar page together. The best way to do this is through the Page Editor > Page Select tab. But you can also do it from the Include On menu (shown above):
Select an object on your page
Right click and select Include On...
A list like that above should appear. If you have kept your page names short, the list will divide neatly into two columns as shown. The order is strictly left to right.
Click the Current includes
Now drag and drop the page names around inside the Include On box into the new order you want
Click OK.
Images embedded in text
Occasionally you may want to embed images in text and have text flow around them on the finished page. Useful for smilies like this
To get the image into your publish folder, you could use a Foreign Object -- messy. The way we did it though was to include the image once somewhere in the project as a regular image -- see left.
The other way is to use a separate FTP program to do the copy.
