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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 and your design. The

Content window facilitates content building and basic editing options for your text and

photos. Anything to do with design is not part of the Content window.

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 (including email links), adding page titles for

each page, importing your photos, editing your photos, adding captions and

watermarks, and using photo albums and groups.

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 9. This is also not the

place to worry about the design or look and feel of your site. The design tools and

layout editing options involve several features that are not easy to see or use if you

don't have any content built first. Using the Design tools contained in the Layout

window, is covered in Chapter 6.

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Start Building Your Content

Now that we have set up the preferences, website properties, added some albums and

groups, 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.

Adding page titles, inputting a text description for each page, editing the text, and

inserting hyperlinks and email links into text.

Importing photos, adding and editing captions, inserting links to caption text and

thumbnails, and adding watermarks to your photos.

Using groups and organizing photo albums within a group.

Using the ImageWell editor to crop, rotate, zoom, and add draw objects to your

photos (labels, thought clouds, talking balloons, circles, and squares).

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