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by Daniel Baran
Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Can't adjust text box height
Replies: 3
Views: 772

Re: Can't adjust text box height

Understood, thank you.
by Daniel Baran
Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Can't adjust text box height
Replies: 3
Views: 772

Can't adjust text box height

I don't seem to be able to adjust the height of text boxes. Width and position are adjustable as expected. Link to a demo file is below. Program Version 19.0.5 (Jan 22 2024) on Windows 11 Pro https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9i9328aoukwq7hk66huyv/Can-t-Change-Text-Box-Height.wbs?rlkey ...
by Daniel Baran
Wed May 25, 2022 7:57 pm
Forum: Off Topic Section
Topic: published website security
Replies: 14
Views: 6216

Re: published website security

Adding:
I will be pausing any additional contribution here as long as such needless hostility and careless denigration is tolerated.
I'm not interested in petty squabbles.
DB
by Daniel Baran
Wed May 25, 2022 7:05 pm
Forum: Off Topic Section
Topic: published website security
Replies: 14
Views: 6216

Re: published website security

At wwonderfull: Anyone reading this thread from the beginning can see how you immediately began denigrating other peoples websites, popularity & SEO etc. without adequate attention to what the thread was even about. You also denigrated the need for even undertaking security header scrutiny. Then ...
by Daniel Baran
Wed May 25, 2022 5:27 pm
Forum: Off Topic Section
Topic: published website security
Replies: 14
Views: 6216

Re: published website security

Hi Alan and thanks,
I will compile a short list of recommendations for those with limited or no prior experience in this.
I should be able to post it hear within the next few days.

PS: A bit bemused by wwonderfull's radical conversion on this - suddenly "all over it".
by Daniel Baran
Tue May 24, 2022 9:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic Section
Topic: published website security
Replies: 14
Views: 6216

Re: published website security

Yes, as you say, there are some very skilled and anti-social hackers about, who are willing to exploit just about anything. And that fact is the very reason that as many of us as possible should try to hold them back by all available means. I am doing that myself and encouraging (not demanding ...
by Daniel Baran
Tue May 24, 2022 7:39 pm
Forum: Off Topic Section
Topic: published website security
Replies: 14
Views: 6216

Re: published website security

You seem to deprecating good security practices; which makes very little sense to me. I think site owners should do whatever they reasonably can, within whatever constraints they have. Obviously, that is a big range of possibilities. Applying optimized safeguards to even a small, low risk site is ...
by Daniel Baran
Mon May 23, 2022 8:16 pm
Forum: Off Topic Section
Topic: published website security
Replies: 14
Views: 6216

Re: published website security

Hello John, Glad to see you are working this. As you have seen, it's not a WWB issue but more a hosting thing. I have managed to achieve A+ results on both Mozilla Observatory and securityheaders.com. Not all sites can be made to do this, but I encourage you to keep at it. Mine was also very bad ...
by Daniel Baran
Mon May 23, 2022 5:18 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Navigating in a site, go back to previous site
Replies: 13
Views: 4701

Re: Navigating in a site, go back to previous site

Just adding; A good live example of what I mean can be seen on virtually any Wikipedia Article page. If you look at the "Contents" list box on the left, all the links have an added ID reference that allows you to jump directly to that section of the same page. For comparison: https://en.wikipedia ...
by Daniel Baran
Sun May 22, 2022 9:37 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Navigating in a site, go back to previous site
Replies: 13
Views: 4701

Re: Navigating in a site, go back to previous site

The easy way is to create a button and link to “SmartLink” to “Previous Page” or “Back” :arrow: This could work, if the smartlink is to a specific URL subsection of the original page, and not just "Previous" or "Back". It would produce the following user experience: 1. You navigate to the first page ...
by Daniel Baran
Sat May 21, 2022 8:28 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

It seems like this should probably be the default way to connect
local network shares to Windows boxes, but that Microsoft has
not done a good job of disseminating this method.
by Daniel Baran
Sat May 21, 2022 4:43 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

Good to hear this.
Thanks for confirming your result.
Might be helpful to many.
DB
by Daniel Baran
Fri May 20, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

I've never liked the way Windows handles mapped network drives. A while back I discovered a different method that seems to work better. Instead of mapping drives, I tried the "Add a Network Location" feature in Windows Explorer. It might be good to "unmap" any drives before trying this method. Click ...
by Daniel Baran
Thu May 19, 2022 10:55 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

WWB is installed on and loads from the local system drive (SSD). There are several smb shares on a TrueNAS Core server on the LAN, but drives are not "mapped" as drive letters to the workstation. The workstation is on a gigabit wired interface and internet is 500/500 (fiber to the closet). Also ...
by Daniel Baran
Thu May 19, 2022 8:05 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

Okay, bumped to 17.2.1, May 11 version.
No discernable change.
Loading is still fast - 2 seconds or less.
I'm willing to do other tests if needed.

PS:
Just thought I should add that I have no extensions installed.
by Daniel Baran
Thu May 19, 2022 7:06 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

WWB is:
17.2.1 (May 2)

Windows is:
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 21H2
OS build 22000.675

Happy to provide any other info that might be useful.
by Daniel Baran
Thu May 19, 2022 5:52 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11
Replies: 42
Views: 12564

Re: WYSIWYG 17 slow load on win 11

No suggestions to add; just a "for what it's worth".
I'm running WWB17 on a 4yo HP workstation that was upgraded from Win10 to Win11.
Not seeing this problem; load times are fast (2 seconds-ish).
Good luck,
DB
by Daniel Baran
Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:43 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Line with Arrow Rendering
Replies: 1
Views: 1870

Line with Arrow Rendering

I have a logo that I am refining and trying to publish in SVG format for sharp scaling. The logo has some lines with "stealth" arrows at one end. These publish fine as PNG, but the arrows disappear when published as SVG. I'm guessing I should probably recreate the whole thing in a dedicated SVG ...
by Daniel Baran
Sun Mar 06, 2022 6:58 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)
Replies: 4
Views: 1291

Re: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)

Thanks Pablo, I fully agree that this is a client-side browser rendering issue. As best I can tell, turning on the "Clear Type" feature in the Windows OS may have been what cleaned up the rendering for me. Seems like Microsoft should have that enabled by default. It's interesting that several ...
by Daniel Baran
Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:17 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)
Replies: 4
Views: 1291

Re: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)

Strangeness; After a few hours, I ran the same tests again. Somehow the rendering was correct in all the previously mentioned test cases. It seems strange that this resolved on its own without any intervention on my part. I had done the usual cache and data clearing in the browsers prior to all ...
by Daniel Baran
Sun Mar 06, 2022 3:30 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)
Replies: 4
Views: 1291

Re: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)

An interesting addendum: On the same Windows 11 machine mentioned previously; In a Chrome browser running in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (instead of the native Windows version), the rendering is smooth. This seems to indicate the problem is a combination of Browser / OS interaction. With so many ...
by Daniel Baran
Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)
Replies: 4
Views: 1291

Italic Font Rendering (Smooth vs. Jagged)

I'm pretty sure this is not a WWB problem, but this seemed like the right place to find and explanation. I use the following font in a logo for my site. It renders smoothly in some browsers, but jagged in others. The font is: Arial Italic Bold Size 13 Below is a brief matrix describing my results ...
by Daniel Baran
Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:57 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Text popup on mouseover
Replies: 2
Views: 976

Re: Text popup on mouseover

Thank you Pablo,
Exactly what I needed.
DB
by Daniel Baran
Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:12 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Text popup on mouseover
Replies: 2
Views: 976

Text popup on mouseover

Hello all,
This is probably simple, but I'm just not seeing it.
I would like for a text box to popup on mouseover to expand on a topic (much like it happens on Wikipedia pages).
Any guidance on best practice for this is appreciated.
Regards,
DB
by Daniel Baran
Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:39 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

In an effort to get this working expediently, I have been trying some of the other slide-show options in WWB. By substituting the "carousel" option in place of "sequence", I am getting an effect pretty close to what I started with. This is working as specified, and seems to be unaffected by the ...
by Daniel Baran
Sun Jul 18, 2021 4:30 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

This seems to be a Javascript problem, but not one caused by WWB. I have a carefully crafted and quite strict "Content Security Policy" on both my test server and public server. This has helped garner A+ ratings from the sites that test server security headers. While well intended (i.e. protecting ...
by Daniel Baran
Thu Jul 15, 2021 6:18 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

Thanks for your persistence and fast feedback on this Pablo, Yes, that link works perfectly for me in multiple browsers. It's all a bit baffling; maybe some difference on the server side of things? I'm seeing the problem behavior on both my private test server (xampp/apache) and public site ...
by Daniel Baran
Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:52 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

Thanks Pablo, I'm at a loss as to why I see the anomaly and you don't on publishing "Demo-with-slide-show-glitch.wbs". You are correct, that the "TempDemo" link is not exactly the same as the project file. I just appended the slideshow page to my main site to provide a quick and easy visualization ...
by Daniel Baran
Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:09 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

https://timespreader.com/demo.zip On publishing the above demo, I see the slideshow anomaly in the following browsers (all are latest versions): Edge Chrome Firefox Brave The exception is Pale Moon browser, in which the same url / slideshow loads and operates perfectly. A live example of this can be ...
by Daniel Baran
Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:17 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

For what it's worth: I just did an additional test which yields an interesting result. If I change the slide show "Object Properties" to "Lightbox Gallery" and "Magnific Popup", the display sequence behaves as expected after publishing. If I change the Object Property back to "Sequence" and publish ...
by Daniel Baran
Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:34 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

Thanks Pablo, Yes, I'm using the latest version 16.4.0. Seeing your result, I proceeded to try and duplicate it. I published just the pared down Demo file (the same one you have) to my xampp private test server. It works as expected (same as your result). Oddly, when I import that same page into my ...
by Daniel Baran
Mon Jul 12, 2021 6:28 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

Sorry,
Here is a link to the WBS file including the corresponding image files if needed:
https://timespreader.com/demofile.zip
Thanks, DB
by Daniel Baran
Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:57 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Re: Slide Show Sequence

Thanks Pablo, Here is the Demo link: https://timespreader.com/TempDemo.html What happens for me is as follows: On page load, the last slide (9) is displayed first. When the right arrow (forward) is clicked, slide (2) is displayed. As further forward clicks are made, the sequence continues as ...
by Daniel Baran
Mon Jul 12, 2021 5:50 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Slide Show Sequence
Replies: 17
Views: 8109

Slide Show Sequence

Hello All, I'm having trouble with a Slide Show Sequence. I have 9 slides that I wish to embed in my site in a "click-through" fashion. The slide show/sequence option works as desired with the following exception. When I add my 9 slides, and then publish the page, the last slide is always displayed ...
by Daniel Baran
Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:44 am
Forum: Showcase your website created by WYSIWYG Web Builder and invite feedback.
Topic: Time Tracking Utility Site
Replies: 4
Views: 12039

Re: Time Tracking Utility Site

In an effort to appease the search engine gods, I have just finished a mobile-friendly addition to this site. This was made using a "flex grid" layout. I recommend diving into the WWB tutorials for those who have not done so. Thanks to Pablo for some helpful steering. The new page can be viewed at ...
by Daniel Baran
Thu Apr 01, 2021 12:53 am
Forum: Responsive Web Design
Topic: Text alignment on mobile page.
Replies: 4
Views: 7936

Re: Text alignment on mobile page.

Okay, I followed Pablo's lead and ditched the "mobile page" for a "flex grid" page. Read several of the tutorials on Layouts, Flex Grid etc., then dove in. Getting the result I was after now. For anyone interested, the resulting "page-for-mobile" can be viewed at the previously mentioned address ...
by Daniel Baran
Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:23 pm
Forum: Responsive Web Design
Topic: Text alignment on mobile page.
Replies: 4
Views: 7936

Re: Text alignment on mobile page.

Thanks Pablo,
I will pursue that directly.
DB
by Daniel Baran
Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:14 am
Forum: Responsive Web Design
Topic: Text alignment on mobile page.
Replies: 4
Views: 7936

Re: Text alignment on mobile page.

Okay; After much trial and error, I found something that works. I put my bulleted list into a "Text Art" box. After some fussy resizing, formatting and parameter tweaking, it achieves the desired result. The only (minor) drawback is that the Text Art publishes as an image. This causes a slightly ...
by Daniel Baran
Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:24 pm
Forum: Responsive Web Design
Topic: Text alignment on mobile page.
Replies: 4
Views: 7936

Text alignment on mobile page.

I'm creating a new mobile page that includes a 10 line bullet list in one text object. I prefer a left alignment for the lines of text, but would like the entire block to maintain horizontal centeredness in a responsive manner. With text alignment within the box set to left, the entire box also ...
by Daniel Baran
Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:10 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Restore 'Built-With' Logo?
Replies: 2
Views: 3005

Re: Restore 'Built-With' Logo?

Thanks BF,
I thought I had looked everywhere.
Easy once you know the path.
Daniel
by Daniel Baran
Sat Mar 20, 2021 6:32 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Restore 'Built-With' Logo?
Replies: 2
Views: 3005

Restore 'Built-With' Logo?

Is there a straightforward way to restore the 'Built-With' logo to a project where it was previously removed?
Thanks,
Daniel Baran
by Daniel Baran
Sat Mar 20, 2021 6:17 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?
Replies: 12
Views: 6646

Re: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?

I also briefly tested this method for a case where the site is not live. (Meaning just an unpublished WBS file) This requires exporting the HTML code of any page of interest first. Copy and Paste that HTML code into the "Source code of the page" box on the site below and push the "Extract" button ...
by Daniel Baran
Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:35 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?
Replies: 12
Views: 6646

Re: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?

I just tried this one on my site and it listed out all the internal and external links.
Worth a look maybe.
https://www.seoreviewtools.com/internal-link-analyzer/
Thanks All,
Daniel
by Daniel Baran
Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:14 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?
Replies: 12
Views: 6646

Re: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?

One last thought.
Maybe the list created by - Tools>Verify Links - could be helpful?

Later:
After a closer look, I see that my suggestion shows external links (and some but not all internal links).
Since your question seems to pertain to internal links, this may not be adequate.
by Daniel Baran
Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:50 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?
Replies: 12
Views: 6646

Re: Is there a way to tell if a page is being linked to?

Hello all, It seems like a good situation in which to apply a 301 redirect. With that, you can directly refer anyone clicking the "stale" remote link to whatever part of the website you wish. This will work without having to know where the referring link is located. I hope I have properly understood ...
by Daniel Baran
Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:00 pm
Forum: Showcase your website created by WYSIWYG Web Builder and invite feedback.
Topic: Time Tracking Utility Site
Replies: 4
Views: 12039

Re: Time Tracking Utility Site

Thanks to all for the positive comments; it is much appreciated!
Best Regards,
Daniel Baran
by Daniel Baran
Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:49 pm
Forum: Showcase your website created by WYSIWYG Web Builder and invite feedback.
Topic: Time Tracking Utility Site
Replies: 4
Views: 12039

Time Tracking Utility Site

I don't expect to win any "style points" here. You will find my static page to be lacking in glitzy eye candy and moving objects. This is intentional however, since the utility being offered is more practical than exciting. For anyone doing freelance work or otherwise needing to keep a detailed log ...
by Daniel Baran
Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:17 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Lock Zoom View to Page Width?
Replies: 2
Views: 3426

Re: Lock Zoom View to Page Width?

I had this question also. I applied the following, which is a reasonable work-around. Right-click on the main toolbar and select "Customize". Under "View" locate the "Zoom Tools" toolbar. Drag this to a preferred location on the main toolbar. You will then have a zoom-to-page-width button (single ...