Guides not only improve your page layouts, they can also help improve viewing speed.
Guide lines help you to align objects precisely and uniformly in your web site. This is important for improving web site download speeds. You’ll understand why in a moment.
In WEBPLUS, the best place to put guide lines is on the master pages of your site. This will ensure that your pages have uniformity in their layout. Visitors will soon understand where to find the various elements of your web pages.
Newspapers and magazines use guide lines (called grids in publishing terms) to create pages that look as though they all belong together. You should do the same when creating web pages.
Guides are created in WEBPLUS by simply clicking in the rulers at the left and top of your work area, holding down the mouse button, and dragging the guides onto the page. Once guides are in place, elements of your page designs will snap to the guide lines, ensuring that they conform precisely to your page layout.
Guides also perform another useful function. They can help ensure that elements of
your pages designs, such as text boxes, graphics and images, do not overlap. This
is important for making your page elements smaller in size, and thus quicker to load
in a site visitor’s browser. You see, overlapping of elements can cause WEBPLUS to
combine those elements into a single, larger graphic. Larger graphics can often be
the cause of slow-
In instances where you want multiple graphics and/or images overlapped or combined to create a certain effect, follow this procedure.
Place the graphics on your page how you wish them to appear. An example is shown below.
This image comprises of a Black Rectangle, a picture and some artistic text. Once the created graphic is assembled, group the objects and use File/Save as Picture, and export the selected objects as a JPG. Then clear the object off you page, and replace with the image just created.