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Chapter 3. Content Window: Building Your Content
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It's important to realize the separation between your content (pages) and your design
(templates). The Content window facilitates content building and basic editing options
for the text, links and photos in your pages. Anything to do with design is not part of
the Content window. This allows you to change and update the content of each page,
without affecting the design or inadvertently changing a template.
What's Covered in this Chapter...
This chapter covers everything involved with building your actual content and all the
features available to help you easily and quickly build each content block: composing &
editing text descriptions, inserting links with the Easy button (including encrypted email
links), adding page titles for each page, importing and editing your photos (including
the iPhoto integrated window and iMedia Browser compatibility), adding and editing
captions and watermarks, embedding links into photos and caption text, adding alt tags
to photos, using photo albums and groups, and adding external files to your website.
What's Not Covered in this Chapter...
This chapter does not cover the Advanced editing features that are accessible from the
Content window. The advanced options are covered in Chapter 11. This is also not the
place to worry about the design, or look and feel of your site. How to use the Template
options and Design tools in the Layout window, are covered in Chapter 6 and Chapter
7. We strongly recommend building some content first before moving on to the Layout
window, so that you have some substance to design around.
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Start Building Your Content
Now that we have set up the preferences, website properties, added some album and
group pages, and organized the site files, we can begin building the content of the site.
Note: text is edited in the content window, while font styles and colors are edited in
the layout window. Make sure you have the Content window open before starting the
next sections.
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3.1 Page Titles & Text Content
Adding page titles, inputting a text description for each page, and editing the text.
3.2 Adding Links to the Text Content
Inserting hyperlinks and encrypted email links into text, and linking text to an
external file.
3.3 Photos, Captions, & Comments
Importing photos, iPhoto interface, adding and editing captions, importing captions
and comments, inserting links into caption text and thumbnails, adding alt tags and
watermarks to your photos, iMedia Browser compatibility.
3.4 Adding & Editing Watermarks
Adding, editing, and deleting watermarks, batch watermarking.
Using groups and organizing photo albums within a group.
3.6 Editing Your Photos (ImageWell Edit Window)
Using the ImageWell editor to crop, rotate, zoom, and add draw objects to your
photos (labels, thought clouds, talking balloons, circles, and squares), as well
as adjusting filters such as sharpness, contrast, brightness, and saturation.
3.7 Adding External Files to Your Website
Adding external files to your website using the new Files interface.
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