The Content Editor


	The Content Editor

To edit the content pages of your site, your site footer, or many other tools, the same Content Editor is used. The Content Editor is basically a word processor, where you can enter, lay out and format any content you'd like to appear on your website. As with any word processor, you'll find tools to cut, copy, paste, change fonts, insert pictures, lay out tables, create hyperlinks, and many other features.

Here are some items to keep in mind as you're editing your content:

At any time, you can revert to the pre-written content supplied with your XSite by clicking the Revert button.
To start from a clean slate, click the Blank Page button.
Above the text editor are rows of buttons, each with its own function. These are very similar to the buttons found in most popular word processors. To learn what a certain button does, just hover your mouse over it, or click here for a description of each tool.
While HTML is designed to be a tool-independent language, the reality is that many web content tools (including Microsoft Word) use codes and formatting that can cause undesired results when pasted into your HTML ads or pages. Fortunately, your site comes equipped with functions specifically designed to help you paste in content from other applications with minimal formatting conflicts. Look for the special buttons in the tool bars to use these features.
The toolbar also comes equipped with a series of paragraph and text (CSS) styles that you can apply to your text as a means of quickly formatting it with the same text formatting your site uses. Just choose the format you want out of the drop-down lists to automatically apply it.
The top toolbar at the bottom of the screen allows you to change the current view of the page to full screen, view or edit the raw HTML, change the zoom level of the page, spell check it, review the word count etc.
The bottom two toolbars at the bottom of the screen present you with an overview of the selected HTML element's properties and a HTML element tree. If you're not altogether familiar with HTML editing, you may at least find that you do not have to right-click to change the properties of an image or other item as often since they appear at the bottom of the screen. If you're an HTML guru, you may be familiar with both of these tools as they are excellent ways to quickly edit HTML in WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) mode.