
WYSIWYG Web Builder is a very complex and powerful website design tool suitable as well for complete beginners, as for experienced users or professional website developers. It’s applicable to professionals because it is very feature-rich, comprehensive and packed with a large number of functions, options and built-in tools, allowing the thorough customization of a website and the in-depth control over any aspect of a webpage. It’s good for beginners because it comes with a very intuitive interface and it provides a WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) approach which simplifies the creation process a lot.
The deployment of the WYSIWYG concept is a remarkable aspect of this nice utility, as it enables the visual designing of a webpage and lessens the importance of coding and programming in the website making process. Basically, users with no HTML knowledge can still create webpages just by dragging-and-dropping elements into the working space. A lot of templates are also available, making the creation of a webpage even easier.
Anyway, as mentioned above, WYSIWYG Web Builder is not only easy-to-use, but also extremely powerful, comprehensive and feature-rich. It lets you enhance a webpage using any kind of elements, from simple ones like basic text and images, to CSS3 Animations and transitions. A lot of options and utilities are put at your disposal, making WYSIWYG Web Builder one of the few excellent applications that also come with a fair price.
v8.2 [Jun 11, 2012]
- Improved: Updated user interface color schemes (Office 2010/Obsidian) for a fresh new look.
- Improved: Toolbars and menus now use high quality icons. (32 bits with alpha channel).
- Improved: New redesigned toolbox icons!
- Improved: For many object we’ve moved the inline style attributes to the style sheet, resulting in cleaner HTML code.
- Improved: Previewing a page with an inline frame now also generates the referred (internal) page, so you don’t have to preview the entire website.
- New feature: Added 'Error reports' to Tools menu. This tool can help you find common problems on a page (like duplicated IDs, invalid filenames).
- Improved: Redesigned publish window. Only the selected profile will now be displayed.
You can quickly visit the website by clicking the URL or explore the server (or local drive) content by clicking the host link.
- New Feature: Added 'Auto detect' to browser preview list editor. Attempts to find all installed browsers and automatically adds them to the list.
- New feature: Added the ability to import multiple HTML pages.
- New Feature: Added Theme Manager to create themes for jQuery objects (previously using theme roller themes) directly from within the application. And although the Theme Manager was designed to create themes for jQuery UI widgets, other objects do also support the themes!
- New feature: Added generic background effects (transparent, solid, gradients, patterns, textures) to Buttons, Bullets, Combobox, Editbox, TextArea, Form, Layer, Marquee, Table and Text. Now you can easily add gradients or other fill effects to those elements!
- New feature: Added the ability to set individual colors, width and styles for borders (applies to most standard HTML elements).
- New Feature: 'opacity' property to most objects (CSS3).
- New Feature: Added 'Custom style' option to Object HTML to add (inline) styles to an object.
- New Feature: Added support for @font-face! WWB automatically detects web unsafe fonts and publishes them along with your page using CSS3's @fontface technique. No additional coding required! Works in all modern browsers!
- New Feature: Added 'box-shadow' property to editbox, textarea, form, layer, horizontal line, site search, auto complete, inline frame, marquee, push button, advanced button, combobox and slideshow (CSS3).
- New Feature: Added 'border-radius' property to image, editbox, textarea, form, layer, site search, auto complete, marquee, text, push button, advanced button, combobox and slideshow (CSS3).
- New feature: Added 'Use CSS3 gradients instead of images when possible' option.
Enable this option to generate CSS styles for background gradients instead of images. This reduces the number of images generates for the page. Keep in mind however than not all browsers (especially Internet Explorer!) do support CSS3 gradient yet.
- New feature: Added 'Advanced' option to Style Manager, so you can directly edit the CSS instead of using the Property Grid.
- New feature: Added 'line-height' and 'letter spacing' attributes (for text styles).
- New feature: Added 'Easing' options to ShowWithEffect/HideWithEffect event actions, more than 30 easing functions to control the animation process. This option can be used for example to create 'bounce' or ‘elastic’ effects.
- New feature: Added the ability to Copy/Paste events between objects.
- New feature: Added support for HTML5 events (HTML5 must be selected as the doctype!)
generic events: ondrag, ondragend, ondragenter, ondragleave, ondragover, ondragstart, ondrop, onmousewheel, onscroll.
form events: oncontextmenu, onformchange, onforminput, oninput, oninvalid.
page events: onafterprint, onbeforeprint, onbeforeonload, onerror, onhaschange, onmessage, onoffline, ononline, onpagehide, onpageshow, onpopstate, onredo, onresize, onstorage, onundo.
- New feature: Added support for links.
- New feature: Added "horizontal/vertical' preview option in Gradient editor. Some gradients look way better vertically...
- New feature: Added more than 25 new presets. Mainly designed to be used for glossy and glass-like buttons (for example in the new CSS menu).
- New feature: Added an option to 'Display official extensions only'. This will only display extensions created by Pablo Software Solutions.
- New feature: Added link to the forum for many additional (user-made) extensions.
- New feature: Added 'edge' mode to IE compatibility settings.
- New feature: Added 'HTML 5' document type. Convert your pages to HTML 5 with the click of the mouse! Note that this is much more than just a setting. It also affects the generated HTML code to ensure full HTML5 compliance. Keep in mind however that specification of HTML5 is not official yet. Of course we will try to keep up with the latest specs in future updates.
- New feature: Added 'Background mode' property to switch between solid, image, gradient, transparent mode.
- New Feature: Added 'Underline Mode' to set the underline behavior of links for the whole page