12 Welcome
New features
• Button Studio (see p. 83)
Make your own custom buttons for your navigation bars in Button
Studio, an environment tailor made for focused button design. All the
key WebPlus tools are at hand for editing in each button state (e.g.,
Normal, Down, Hover), along with intelligent button scaling control.
You can also use buttons as standalone objects, or even convert to a
navigation bar in one click!
• New Navigation Bars (see p. 67)
Take time out to explore exciting new intelligent navigation bars,
ranging in type from Block, Graphic, Speech, and Tab, to Standard
and Traditional. Buttons, separators, and background presets for the
bar and pop-up menus can be customized or created from scratch in
the new Button Studio and Design Studio, giving you absolute design
control.
• Pop-up Menus (see p. 78)
Using the site structure (or custom), create a pop-up navigation
menu that displays from any WebPlus object (button, Gallery object,
QuickShape, or picture).
• Panels (see p. 106)
Create panels as containers for displaying extra details, helpful tips,
shortcuts, converted navigation bars, PayPal Buy Now Forms.. in
fact any objects you like. Optionally float panels that stay locked to
your browser window for permanent display (even when page
scrolling). With actions you can connect a hidden panel to any object
to display on rollover or mouse-click of that object (great for buttons,
Gallery objects, pictures). Also use actions for pop-up alert messages
or initiate printing via buttons placed on your page.
• PayPal® Mini Carts! (see p. 150)
Set up a floating E-commerce shopping cart window that pops up as
items are added, then minimizes to be always "at hand". Great for
keeping a track on purchases!
• Enhanced Google Maps (see p. 97)
Pinpoint exact "photo" locations using Google Street View, directly
off any clicked map marker. Google Maps now support an unlimited
number of map markers!
