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Web Studio is an HTML generator, not an HTML editor. This means that it doesn’t have any HTML until you request it. You request it to create HTML by choosing to Preview a page or site, Upload a page or site, to View Source for a page, to edit HTML in a text object, or to edit the HTML in an HTML object.
Understanding Web Studio’s object oriented approach to HTML
Web Studio uses an object oriented approach for adding HTML to pages. It enables you to add specific HTML to a page or to an individual object instead of just writing a sequence of HTML that is part of a larger sequence of HTML (which is the case for just about all HTML editors). With Web Studio, the HTML in the object stays with the object when it moves, is copied or pasted, when it is used on another page, or used in an entirely different website!
This method has many advantages. You don’t have to worry if you’ve copied all of the HTML because when you copy the object, it is automatically all there. This simplifies things for the advanced web site designer
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Here are some examples
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Web Studio
If you have HTML that opens a database and retrieves a specific record set, you can add that HTML to an object on a page and be certain that when you go to use that HTML in a different location or page or site, that it is all there. You just copy the object, and paste it into the new page or site. Painless!
Other Products
Joey has the task of taking some HTML from a previously created website and putting that HTML (or functionality) into the new site he is working on. He goes to the page in the old site that has the HTML with a text based HTML editor and copies the HTML. He then pastes it into his new webpage and previews it. It doesn’t work.
Joey spends hours or days trying to determine why it won’t work.
Eventually Joey asks Harry, who wrote the original code, and is informed that there is a bunch of Javascript and ASP code that has to go with the HTML he added to his page. The missing code was in the original page’s Header.
Joey copies the header’s code and pastes it into his page and everything works.
The same scenario with Web Studio would go something like this…
Joey opens the old website in Web Studio. He copies the object that contains Harry’s code and pastes it into his new site. He previews the site and everything works! Why? Because Web Studio’s Object Oriented way of dealing with HTML enables one object to contain all of the HTML (and even other files) that is necessary for that object to function. It allows one to put HTML that is required to be in the HEADER into the HEADER, and to put HTML that is required to be in the BODY into the BODY, and anywhere else it needs to be. And as previously implied it also allows you to add any requisite files to the object as well. This is what Object Oriented programming is all about, a self contained module, fully functional no matter where it came from or where it is going.
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