The WebPage Construction Kit /
Internet DesignShop
This all-in-one application lets you create web pages and manage web sites, design a wide range of graphic projects including greeting cards, calendars, posters, banners, and more. As all these features are easily accessible within DesignShop you won't have the hassle of learning how to use different programs and utilities.

Speed and Efficiency
As all of the features and projects are controlled from one easy-to-learn interface, your work is faster and more efficient. You can speed your work of various tasks by using a single application instead of running different applications and utilities. You may save time and be more efficient since you can share resources for all of your graphic projects using the DesignShop application.

Easy to Learn. Easy to Use
DesignShop is easy to learn because it uses a standard Windows graphical interface. Major functions are easily accessible from menu options, floating toolbars, and/or hot keys.
Furthermore, once you have learnt how to perform a particular operation in one project, you can use the same approach to do similar tasks with other projects. For example, after you have learned how to insert text and graphics into a greeting card, you can do it with posters, banners, business cards and calendars.

Fully Automated Project Management
DesignShop automatically takes care of page links and Web site organization. You can comfortably add, move, and delete pages from a Web site. The application automatically takes care of maintaining the links between the pages.

Style Inheritance
DesignShop's Visual Style Settings feature enables you to define styles for text, links, background colors, and fonts for a single page or for an entire Web site. This feature can save a great deal of time in creating new sites since it automatically takes care of the routine requirements allowing you to concentrate on the content and appearance of Web pages.

Frame Source Overlays (FSO)
DesignShop allows you to easily insert frames into Web pages. A few mouse clicks and your page will be divided into as many frames as you desire. The enhanced frame management controls of the program allow you to manage a frames-enabled page as easily as a page that has no frames.

Common Objects
Web pages created in DesignShop can share objects, such as navigation bars, images, and multimedia objects, with other pages in the site. While most Web site design applications include this feature, DesignShop enables you to use common objects more easily.

Context Sensitive Headers and Footers
You can design dynamic headers and footers that vary based on their location in the Web site. When you move a page to another Web site location, the headers and footers are automatically updated to reflect the new location of the page.

Secure File Format
DesignShop stores Web pages and entire Web sites as a single file that includes all objects, graphics, text, effects, and other file resources. This format makes managing the site efficient.
When you need to make changes that may impact the entire site, the changes are immediately implemented throughout the Web site design.
When you need to transfer the Web site to a different computer, you may simply transfer the one file rather than having to manually collect all of the various HTML files, resources, graphics, and objects.

Graphical Layout Navigator
The Graphical Layout Navigator enables you to view the entire Web site with all of the internal links between the pages or to view a single Web page. This feature of the program makes managing and updating of Web site information quicker and easier.

In-Place Graphic Editor and Reusable Graphics
The DesignShop Graphics Editor enables you to import a wide range of graphic files including bitmapped and vector images. When you insert images into a Web page, they are stored in their original format. When you generate a Web site, all graphics are converted to the highly efficient JPEG or GIF file formats for use on your Web site server.

Drag and Drop
The application enables you to drag and drop images from other Windows applications and place them directly into a Web page or graphic project. DesignShop stores all graphics internally and creates the appropriate file when the Web site is generated. Thus, you don't have to worry about the format for the original file.

DesignShop Features
The application allows you to design individual Web pages, create complex Web sites, include databases in your Web sites, insert interactive forms, and much more. It is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use Web publishing program.

Graphics Editor
The DesignShop Graphics Editor provides the gateway to creating exciting and dynamic graphics for Web sites, greeting cards, posters, business cards, calendars, and more. You can easily select from the vast assortment of graphics that are included with DesignShop, import your own graphics, or create new graphics. Any graphic item created in the Graphics Editor is immediately available for use in any of the DesignShop modules so that you can easily create Web page graphics, poster graphics, calendars, and more.

Posters and Banners
The posters and banners section enables you to create banners and posters that are as small as a single sheet of paper or as big as ten sheets wide by ten sheets tall. You can include text, text manipulation (color, shape, drop shadows, etc.), graphics, borders, and backgrounds.
After you have completed the design, DesignShop can print the project on individual sheets of paper with cutting guides that will assist you in assembling your final project.

Greeting Cards
DesignShop Greeting Cards let you create customized and personalized cards for any occasion. You can select them from any of the pre-designed templates or create your own design. After you have created your card using any of the DesignShop graphics, fonts, text manipulation features, etc., you can print the card and send it on some special occasion.

Calendars
The Calendar generator in DesignShop is one of the most powerful of any calendar creating programs available on the market. You can select a variety of calendar types (monthly, annual, semi-annual, weekly, etc.), incorporate your own graphics and text, even include standard holidays automatically! You can customize the design to include new holidays, a list of your "special" days, and much more. After you have finished creating the calendar, you can print it as a single sheet (or as large as a 10 sheet x 10 sheet square), include it in another graphic project, such as a greeting card or Web page, or place it on a Web page.

Business Cards
DesignShop enables you to create colorful and interesting business cards. You can include scanned logos, clip art, text, text manipulations (drop shadows, shapes, etc.) to have your cards make a real statement about you, your business, or your profession.

DesignShop Suite of Applications
The DesignShop suite includes a number of additional applications to manage Web site design as well as other graphic projects. The additional applications in the suite include:
DesignShop includes the Internet DesignShop application along with several quality applications that complement the Web site and graphic design process. These applications include:
SST: Secure Shuttle Transport. Provides security and communications between you and your friends, business associates and Web visitors. Includes encrypted instant messaging, chat, file transfers and more... Refer to the chapter on SST in this user guide for more details on SST features.
BoomFTP. The Complete application that enables you to transfer files of all kinds to and from servers or across the Internet.
Clip art collection. DesignShop includes a large collection of JPEG and GIF images you can use in Web site design and in graphic projects.
Templates. The DesignShop installation automatically places a selection of templates in your system that you may use for Web sites, greeting cards, posters, etc.
These templates save you time since they are pre-designed for a wide variety of uses.
The installation program also includes a selection for template installation that will place additional Web site templates in the DesignShop system.

Product Registration
DesignShop features a convenient online registration system that is activated the first time you open it. If you have Internet access then, you can register using the automatic registration the program displays. Make sure you enter an accurate email address in the form. If you do not have a modem or if you prefer to register by telephone, you may call the number indicated in the online registration dialog box to register.