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One of the features we liked about Manila was the familiar text formatting options for Windows users. When using IE with the WYSIWYG Editor active (remember: WYSIWYG is What You See Is What You Get), you will see this type of editing toolbar on a Windows computer. The formatting toolbar looks familiar, right? You have seen the icons in toolbars for other applications you use everyday. Windows users can easily add content by typing or copy/paste and then embellish it. The list tool creates bullet lists or numbered lists. Type your list items but do not add the bullet or number. Select the list items and click the bullet or number icon in the toolbar. Manila automatically adds the bullet or numbers (as html code behind the scenes). If you look at the pull-down menu choices for Paragraph and Size you will not see what you expect! It would help to know how web pages are created to understand the options. The alternate editing mode from WYSIWYG is Source, as in HTML code. If you prefer to edit using the Source view, set the site preference to HTML editing. In the Editors Only links, go to the Prefs > Editorial page to the Editing Tool section and choose HTML Tags and scroll to the bottom of the page to click the Submit button. The HTML Editing toolbar looks like this: [snip] Macintosh users do not have a WYSIWYG editor when using IE or Netscape. New web browsers have been announced for Macintosh OS X that provide WYSIWYG editing. (Check for news regarding new features on our help site: http://web.scc.losrios.edu/scoop/macintosh.) Remember ease of maintenance is one of the big reasons we selected Manila for website development. Practice the formatting options to give your site personality. And note your final choices in your Journal story for later review. [snip] The best way to demonstrate these choices is to show stories with example formatting, visit http://web.scc.losrios.edu/scoop/formatting. Determine the writing style for your stories and then pick one or two Paragraph format styles and one or two Size formats to use on your site for consistency. Make a note of your choices on your Journal page. For example, Scoop's site is using h4 for all headings while allowing the theme to control the font and font size of the body text. Emphasis for text is bold but not italic because on a computer italicized text is hard to read. Only links appear as underlined words. Web pages can be challenging to read. Be careful when using italic text, small text sizes and low contrast colors for background and text.
The formatting toolbar looks familiar, right? You have seen the icons in toolbars for other applications you use everyday. Windows users can easily add content by typing or copy/paste and then embellish it. The list tool creates bullet lists or numbered lists. Type your list items but do not add the bullet or number. Select the list items and click the bullet or number icon in the toolbar. If you look at the pull-down menu choices for Paragraph and Size you will not see what you expect! It would help to know how web pages are created to understand the options. The Paragraph options look like this
The Size options look like this
Check out the short Font list! The Color list is alittle different also.
Here are some example of the choices in action. Heading 1Heading 4Text Size 1 Text Size 4 Text Size 7
Determine the writing style for your stories and then pick one or two Paragraph format styles and one or two Size formats to use on your site for consistance. Make a note of your choices on your Journal page. Web pages can be challenging to read. Be careful when using italic text, small text sizes and low contrast colors for background and text. Sacramento
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