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WebPlus 10 Makes Complex Web Design Accessible to All

 

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006; 07:10 AM

WebPlus 10 is a landmark release of Serif’s Web design program, providing the ability to create fully interactive, E-Commerce enabled websites, without requiring any knowledge of HTML. Offering an introduction to Web design for new users and the flexibility more experienced designers need, WebPlus 10 is an affordable solution for everyone looking to publish their work, photos and thoughts online.


Top new WebPlus 10 features:

• E-Commerce – Shopping carts and card payment via PayPal, RomanCart or Mal’s.
• Serif Hosted Smart Objects – Free hosting for blogs, forms and more.
• PhotoGallery – Publish image collections online easily.
• Stylish HTML Email – Send attractive HTML emails in just a few mouse clicks.
• Add Source Code – Dynamic effects, JavaScript, HTML pages from scratch and more.

WebPlus 10’s new wizard-driven E-Commerce facilities make it valuable for individuals, business users and organisations without advanced web design expertise, wishing to promote and sell their products and services online. Offering built-in support for three trusted payment services, PayPal, RomanCart and Mal’s, the E-Commerce Wizard guides users through adding the necessary components to create their online store. A choice of payment mechanisms, including pre-designed standalone buttons, forms and direct links to the shopping cart are available.

New Serif hosted Smart Objects enable users to add popular Web functions, including blogs, polls, RSS feeds, counters, mailing lists and much more to their sites. Users can select their chosen Smart Objects, simply drop them into their design and WebPlus 10 will do the rest. Forms can be easily created using the Form Wizard to add controls and response fields – such as check boxes and combo boxes – and the data gathered can be forwarded by Serif or processed by the user’s own script.

Photographers will welcome the ability to create online image collections with WebPlus 10’s new PhotoGallery feature. The PhotoGallery window enables users to select a group of images, add effects, frames, captions and links to the images, choose a layout and simply place the completed gallery in the chosen location on the Web page.

HTML emails can now be created within WebPlus 10; users design their email just as they would a normal Web page and then simply select the new ‘send page by email’ option.

For anyone familiar with HTML editing, the new Source Pane enables users to add dynamic effects, JavaScript, Meta Tags and other search engine friendly information or create pages from scratch. Advanced users will also welcome WebPlus 10’s enhanced File Management capabilities, which allow complete control over directory structure, file naming and provide improved export options for images, media files and more. WebPlus 10 still automatically creates Navigation Bars according to the site structure for speed and ease, however users can now customise the navigation by selecting which menus appear and in what order, within each Navigation Bar.

WebPlus 10 makes it easy to link to or show content from other sites. Users can create RSS feeds for other websites to feature, widening the scope of their communications, and RSS feeds from other sites can be incorporated into WebPlus 10 pages, keeping visitors informed with up to the minute news on related topics. Support for frames and popups is useful for featuring advertising and users can also choose to display linked images from third party hosting sites or save them on their own server.

New HTML Text Frames and Tables ensure that only HTML supported characters are used so that text and tables will appear correctly in browsers. WebPlus 10’s new Font Management capabilities also assist inexperienced designers. When selecting fonts for their websites users can look for the green tick alongside their chosen font, indicating that it’s ‘Web safe’. The enhanced Layout Checker can also flag up any unsafe fonts, enabling users to substitute or convert them into graphics.

Users can now update single pages incrementally, saving on time and monthly upload allowance. WebPlus 10’s new FTP Upload functionality also makes it easier to maintain sites and a backup WebPlus file is automatically created and saved on the server when a site is uploaded.

WebPlus 10 has a new range of Templates to get new users started and a large set of preset customisable Flash Banners to add dynamism to every website. The new Tabbed User Interface offers intuitive access to all these new features and many more, making it possible to create effective websites.

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