AOLpress Help

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New Features in AOLpress 1.2

The first difference you'll notice is the new name--AOLpress. It's the same product you may have used as GNNpress or NaviPress, but with the new features listed in this chapter and greater integration into America Online and the new PrimeHost hosting service.

New feature categories:

• Browsing
• Text and Content
• Images, Image Maps, and Toolbars
• Tables
• Java Support
• HTML Support
• MiniWebs
• Publishing

Browsing

• To load or reload the images in a page, you can use Browse Load Images.
• To open a page that was displayed in a window you closed during this session or a previous session, you can open that page from the FileOpen Recent list.
• In the Windows version, the toolbar and Location, Title, and Home Page fields have been moved out of the Page and MiniWeb windows and made part of the main AOLpress window. This saves screen space when you use several Page and MiniWeb windows at once.
• The new toolbar icons are smaller to match the size of icons in other applications.
• If you place the mouse cursor over a toolbar icon for a second, you will see a "Tool Tip" that tells you the function of the icon. To turn these tool tips off, uncheck the Help Show Tool Tips menu item.
• The "Short Menus" are no longer available.

Text and Content

• AOLpress now has a built in spell checker. You can check pages or entire MiniWebs by choosing the Tools Spell Check menu item.
• You can change the color of selected text by choosing a color from the Format Type Color menu.
• The Bigger and Smaller options have been moved out of the Format Type Style menu and into the new Format Type Size menu.
• You can rate the contents of your pages by choosing the Format Page Attributes menu item and typing a PICS label or selecting a SafeSurf rating. The rating you add can be used by several browsers that let parents and teachers control the level of potentially offensive material children can see.

Images, Image Maps, and Toolbars

• You can resize images by double-clicking on them and dragging the image handles.
• You can uncheck the Border field when you insert an image if you don't want a border around linked images.
• You can create client-side or server-side image maps with AOLpress.
• You can create circles and polygons in image maps as well as rectangles.
• AOLpress highlights linked areas defined in a client-side image map when you move the cursor over the map.
• You can add toolbar icons that link to pages like your "Home", "Next" and "Index" pages. Each page can have whatever set of toolbar icons you want to add. Many browsers do not currently display these additional toolbar icons, but for browsers that do display them, you can make navigation much easier. Choose the Format Page Attributes menu item and select a type of Toolbar Link.

Tables

• You can add or delete rows and columns within a table by using the options you see when you choose Table Alter.
• If the text and other items you want to place in the table are already in your page, highlight them before you create the table. When you create the table, the table cells will be filled with the paragraphs you selected (from left to right and then from top to bottom).

Java Support

• You can add Java applets to your pages by choosing the Element Java Applet menu item or by copying and pasting a Java applet to your page. (AOLpress currently does not display and run Java applets.)
• You can create Java source files within a MiniWeb by choosing the File New Java menu item.
• You can decide whether you want place holders for Java applets displayed in your pages using the "Show Java Windows" box in the Tools Preferences General window.

HTML Support

• AOLpress supports HTML 3.2. You can choose to have your pages conform to Netscape's standards or HTML 3.2 in the Tools Preferences General window.
• The HTML you see when you choose the Tools Show HTML menu item is now formatted nicely and the tags and attributes are color-coded.
• AOLpress does not erase any <FRAME>, <FRAMESET>, or <NOFRAMES> tags in the files you edit.
• AOLpress supports a number of new tags and attributes if they are contained in the HTML you are viewing or if you add them directly to the HTML.
• If you directly edit HTML and do not wish AOLpress  to conform it (so that AOLpress pages are always in strict HTML compliance), you can save your changes directly from the HTML editor. Similarly, reloading from the HTML editor allows you to edit HTML before it is conformed for display on the AOLpress browser.

MiniWebs

• You can assign icons to files in a MiniWeb by choosing the Edit Set Icon menu item. You can use an image as the icon for its own file by choosing the Edit Make Icon menu item.
• You can set titles for page files and other types of files in a MiniWeb by choosing the Edit Set Title menu item.
• You can assign help pages to files in a MiniWeb by choosing the Edit Set Help menu item.
• You can decide whether you want AOLpress to open the MiniWeb, the home page for the MiniWeb, or both windows when you access the URL for a MiniWeb.

Publishing

• AOLpress stores backup copies of pages you have edited but have not saved. When you restart AOLpress after a crash, it opens these copies and tells you that it is recovering old files. You can continue editing these files without losing much of your work.
• AOLpress helps you avoid conflicts when several people edit the same Web pages. When you publish a page, AOLservers (v2.1 or higher) make sure no one has saved changes to the page since the last time you loaded it. If someone else has changed the page, the server sends you a message. (Other servers that check content versions may provide similar messages.)
• If you want to warn other people in your group that you are making changes to a page, you can lock the page by choosing the Tools Administer Page Lock menu item.
• You can save files in Rich Text Format (RTF) or in Java source format.

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