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How-to Guide | Tips & Tricks

Auto Draft

These are the commonly used commands that can be used at anytime. In addition, you can add customized keyboard commands of your own.

General

ctrl + n
Opens a new web site

ctrl + o
Opens an existing web site

ctrl + w
Closes the active (or currently viewed) window

ctrl + s
Saves the web site to

How-to Guide | Tips & Tricks

Matching Colors

Using the Select Command in the Color dialog, you can match any color on your website or on your computer screen. This means that you can create shapes, lines, backgrounds and text that have custom colors. The Fill Color, Line Color, Font Color, Text Background Color and Page Background Commands all have

How-to Guide | Tips & Tricks

Using Color Schemes

The Graphics Gallery has a Color Schemes sub gallery with color swatches you can use to design the color for your website. Double click on the sub gallery to open the gallery of swatches.

How-to Guide | Podcast

Program Crashing, IE 8 Reset


If you modify or make additions to Internet Explorer 8, it can cause random program crashes or features to malfunction. These problems include:

Font sizes do not change
Yellow background stays behind text after editing.
Text jumps when you double click on the text object to edit it
Problems

Draw Tab | How-to Guide

Making Shapes with Reduced Opacity

If a shape withg a reduced opacity looks gray in Preview or on the web, there is a work around to the problem. Since this problem does not exist with all computers, it may be a browser problem. This technique works with solid fill and graduated fill shapes.
Some things you

How-to Guide | Page Tab

Changing Your Home Page

Every website needs a Home page. When you start a project, Web Studio automatically makes the Home page be the first page in the Page List. The Home page always has a little house icon next to the name so that it is easy to find.

You can change which page

How-to Guide

Adding Options for PayPal Buttons

To add options such as sizes and quantities to your PayPal shopping cart:

Go to paypal.com

Login to your account

Click merchant services

Click on the Add to Cart link under “Create Buttons”

Under “Customize Button”, add your options
Fill in the rest of the information
Choose “Create Button” at the bottom of the page; this will

How-to Guide | Tips & Tricks

Password Protect Pages

You can create a page on your website that is password protected.

How-to Guide | Tips & Tricks

Creating a Watermark

You can use the text object and the Merge command to make a copyright notice on a photo. If someone tries to print a page to use your photo, then the mark interferes with the image and reminds viewers that the image has a copyright.

How-to Guide | News

Find Video Tutorials

The video tutorials can be viewed within the program and also in Web Studio TV.
In the program, the groups have a small diagonal arrow in the lower-right corner. The arrow is called a Video Tutorial Launcher. If you click it, you’ll see a Video Tutorial related to that group. Click