Editing Page Text in Highwire
If you don't want to edit html code in your Highwire store, you can still add text and pictures to the Home, About, Contact, and Terms pages. The editable region is in the content area, between the top menu and the featured items in the stock themes.In your Admin, go to Appearance > Page Text. Use the dropdown menu to choose the page you want to edit.
Now look at the tabs down at the bottom of the text box.
- "Design" lets you work in WSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode.
- "HTML" lets you work directly in the code - this is the one to choose if you have code to paste in.
- "Preview" shows you what the page will look like in your browser, minus the background color or image.
NOTE: When you're working in the HTML view, if you're using divs, it's possible to cause a cascading error on the whole page by failing to close the div. Not closing other tags may possibly cause cascading errors.
Look at the bar on top of the Design view. Some of the most useful features are as follows (at this writing):
- Binoculars: Lets you find a word in your text, or find and replace a word or phrase throughout your text.
- Clipboard: Has special Paste feature to let you paste text from Word (Word has its own formatting which can cause problems if pasted into the textbox without using this feature.)
- Mountain/Sun: Inserts an image from a URL. Your image must be hosted somewhere on the web. (You can upload images to your store's files by using Appearance > Launch File Browser. Then click the image name, and copy the full URL at the bottom of the file browser.)
- Finger/Paper: Click on your image after you load it, and then click this button. It lets you set the Properties for your image. Setting the width and height helps your page load faster. Enter the name of the image under "Alt Text". Image Alignment and Margins position the image relative to the page text. (Or you can enter a css style if you have one for the image.)
- Globe/Link: Highlight text, then enter the link address. You can use this to make a hyperlink to another page, an anchor link within the page, or an email address.
- Globe/Broken Link: Highlight linked text and click this to delete the link and keep the text.
- A/a, a/A: One of these buttons converts highlighted text to all lower case, the other to all upper case.
- Spreadsheet: Creates tables. (Frankly I find table controls so difficult to use, that it's easier to learn to code them!)
- Horseshoe Thingy: Click to choose special characters, like Copyright, Trademark, and various mathematical symbols.
