GWD Evaporating Text on While Saving Text Edits Work Around.

GWD has had a problem with evaporating text since the original release October 2013 and has been reported by us several times since Nov 2103.  Simply give it a try. Build a container enter a bunch of text click outside the container, save the page, click back in the container and edit some text and insert a new paragrgh and click outside the container just as you would before saving the page and some of the previously existing text will have disappeared. It's a problem on every HTML 5 page and not isolated to any one page then click outside the container and you will see some text disappear it is usually the text usually but it's not always the text immediately above the added text.  If you notice the text disappear before you save you can undo and recover the lost text but with each attempt to save the page some text will disappear. Previous work arounds (http://wp.me/4d8yf)  no longer work with the newest release.

Having said this we discovered that entering a blank line or two above the inserted text or the text that evaporated then click outside the container box will evaporate the blank inserted line and leave the edit in tact. We have found in some cases we had to enter a blank line above each and every line in the text container before clicking outside the container box then we can come back into the container box and delete the inserted blank lines and click outside the container with a savable version. 

Also we notice a second cursor upon clicking inside the container which sits resident at the top left corner of the container. it is separate from the cursor used to edit the text. It seams to have no effect on the problem as clicking on it several times will merge the two cursors into one but again it doesn't remove the evaporating text problem.

On the example attached we had to create 3 separate text container boxes and we still had problems when we attempted to edit the freshly created center text container. http://chefleez.com/Classes.html 

What is GWD's plans to fix this problem and when and if there is a plan to make components functional in HTML 5 pages?

Warning, Don't use Google Wed Designer, GWD HTML 5 software program.

We've used GWD since Nov 2013. The editing then was problematic with work arounds that worked. Recent upgrades have made it near impossible to edit existing HTML 5 pages. Don't use this software it will frustrate you till you go to something else just as we are doing. Piece of #*! s/w! It takes hours to edit  a single text box and is still failing as in with every save attempt a different set text in the container simply evaporates.. it just simply disappears, Select all, copy and paste into new container fails to paste all copied text, OUR ADVICE IS JUST DON"T BOTHER WITH THIS PROGRAM if you want editable HTML 5 web pages. It's quite simply gotten worse with each upgrade!

GWD does not function when both Schema.org code and Sharaholic code are present!

I've had no feedback on this subject from GWD.  Is it GWD's position that Schema.org and Google'w webmaster tools structured data markup are not website important and thus this report of GWD loss of functionality when marked up and including Shareaholic nav bar in GWD code results in a saved GWD HTML website that will not either 1) open and freezes GWD program or 2) sometimes will open the GWD page but freezes the program and will not provide a view of the page? 

 

Adding shareaholic nav bar to your GWD pages without Google webmaster data markup results in a HTML page that will not show the Shareaholic nav bar adding the Google webmaster data markup without a sharaholic nav bar functions just fine. 

 

I would call this a bug! What would you call it?

 

The work around is time consuming and requires maintaining two files for each page one without the mark up and the second page including the data mark up and requires maintaining and updating the unmarked up page and redoing the mark up with with each edit of the unmarked up page and posting the marked up code directly to your site host provider. 

 

What is Google Webmaster tools Data Markup you ask? Well it is a WYSIWYG addressing the simplest of Structured Data Mark up as provided by Schema.org.  Google Webmaster Data Markup makes this relatively easy as a point and markup then create code and copy it and paste it into your host or GWD HTML page. This extra code is supposed to improve search engines in understanding what each of your website pages are about. 

 

Have a Great year!

 

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Chef LeeZ GWD PDF not an image & IFrame with PDF not cross platform.

Google Web Designer,  GWD, forum post:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gwdbeta/TsIwOT_OlIA/ShlftHDBzrYJ

We have built a GWD Iframe inserting a pdf into this test page. We are told GWD insert image does not recognize pdf as an image.

http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/RecipeGalangalSoup.html

 It works fine in Chrome and Thailand I E but fails to render the iframe in USA I E. (no iframe or pdf) and I don't know how that is even possible but that what the test shows (no iframe in USA IE).

Chrome

                                       

 I E Thailand

I E USA

 and not at all on Android 

even with adobe reader installed to both Samsung androids (Galaxy 10.1 and 5 inch Galaxy Note) both operarting on android 4.1 or higher. 

Android Thailand

Until resolved GWD iframe does not import a PDF cross platform!  

Chef LeeZ GWD site Question? On Android why do some animated .gifs work while others do not?

For anyone just picking up on this blog ..  Chef LeeZ website is built using GWD site software.  Chef LeeZ has been publishing it's trials and work a-rounds for GWD since GWD announced  Google Web Designer HTML 5 WYSIWYG as free cross platform software.

Recently we added animated .gifs to two test pages; our Classes page and our Free Recipes page with  superb results which lead us to creating and adding other animated .gifs to the site. All work fine on I.E. but these do not work on Android and that is today's question,  why not on Android? Home Page, Reserve, Reviews. Why not on these pages as some of the animated .gifs are the same animated .gifs already proven to work on a different page. So why do they not work on all pages?

The following, ,  animated .gif, works on Android on our first test page but not on the subsequent pages as mentioned earlier and linked above. Why?

Chef LeeZ Google Web Designer GWD SIte resize, change hyperlinks work a-rounds, add video fails to work

Chef LeeZ web site is created with Google Web Designer GWD HTML 5 WYSIWYG beta.

When we set up our original pages we did them with a page content width of 600px and all the hyperlinks were set up to open in a new window.  Tests with this site indicated we could go larger with the site container size and we adjusted the containers to 900px (select all and adjust position settings) adjust text size in each text container one at a time (see previous post for editing text work a-rounds) as now we have more room so text can be larger and we also wanted to change the hyperlinks from pages ending in .htm to the new pages ending in .html and have them open on the same page.

We found you could not simply view the related hyperlinks and change them to .html as this did not change the code and the links were still opening in a new window we had to uncheck the open in separate window box then change the URL, then copy it, highlight the newly typed text, click the hyperlink task bar option and paste the URL into its place on the hyperlink pop up or manually enter the URL. Once we rebuilt a repetitive sequence of hyperlinks, like the navigation bar, we were able to copy it and highlight and delete the text to be replaced, and paste the copied nav bar in its place on each of the pages one page at a time.

Once again doing editing in GWD is extremely frustrating and time consuming but can be done as you can see on Chef LeeZ new 900px wide web site where the hyperlinks do not open on new page except where we still desired same.

The add video div option doesn't want to open the video URL.  A URL that works just fine by itself (http://www.youtube.com/v/Li7Zu7KbNLM?hl=en&fs=1) and on other web pages (http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/chefleez/Video/FruitSculptureOnly3HrsOfClassV1.htm) but doesn't work with GWD add video option. Perhaps our next post will provide a solution for adding a video to a Google Web Designer GWD HTML 5 WYSiWYG Html page.

Best wishes for your building your GWD website.

Chef LeeZ Google Web Designer GWD can include gif animations.

Chef LeeZ GWD website Classes, Group Classes and fruit sculpture pages now include an inimated gifs image without any noticeable loss in download time.  Chef LeeZ downloadedGifAp, a free gif animation program, from sourceforge membership, which we used to create the gif image files:

1. KIds Can Cook! 2. Group Class, 3. Fruit Sculpture Class then uploaded the gif file to our web host and copied the web host url and pasted it over the existing IMage Properties source replacing the single image with the animated gif image.

In spite of the GWD editing problems we do want to say it is still the best free HTML5 WYSIWYG program mostly because it provides a code editor function. 

We believe we can increase our website information size by 20 to 30% and still have fully functional fast downloading cross platform HTML5 website created with Google Web Designer GWD beta.  Perhaps we will test this in our next website version.