Sunday, January 26, 2014

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.

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