Editing files

Editing pages and files on your website

Select a file on your web site from the navigation treeview on the left of the Zoom Website Editor main window.

Non-text files

Non-text files such as images are downloaded over FTP from the web site to your My Documents\WebSites{domain name} folder or subfolder. The "edit" command is passed to Windows which will open the file in the Windows default external application for edit.
Once editing is complete in the external program then the Zoom Web Editor menu item "Upload this File to Web" may be used to return the edited file to the web server.

Text files

Text files (generaly HTML, CSS or code script) are downloaded from your web site into a new Zoom Website Editor tab. Each editor tab contains a text editor, a web browser (it is a limited version of IE and therefore a rubbish browser but it gives some idea of what the page will look like) and a history tab. Multiple editor tabs allow a number of files to be open for editing all at the same time. If you mess-up then you can "undo" current edits or retrieve an earlier version of your web page from history.
Once editing is complete, any pre-existing disc file is saved to history, the new file is saved to your Documents\WebSites{domain name} folder (or a subfolder of it) and then uploaded to the web site via FTP.

Editor features

• File save to web. Saves any previous disc file to history. Creates a new disc file in your Documents\WebSites{domain name} folder from the editor then transfers this file by FTP to your web site, overwriting any existing file.
• Reload editor from Website. Optionally a backup of the editor is saved on disc. Editor contents are then overwritten from the website file.
• Print editor contents to print device.
• Search, Find, Replace in editor. [Global Find and Replace] lines in all HTML/text files in the current directory
• Undo/Redo edits in editor
• Indent/Unindent selected lines
• [Color picker] wizard
• View page in external Browser
• [Code Snippets] - store and reuse frequently used lines of code
• Recover code from [Saved History] files

HTML features and wizards

• [Insert <form>] and <input> wizard
• [Insert hyperlink] , <a> tag wizard
• [Insert image] , <picture> and <img> tag wizard
• [Insert audio], <audio> tag wizard
• [Insert video] , <video> tag wizard
• [Insert HTML Table] , <table> tag wizard
• Insert Special character, non-standard ASCII character
• [Surround text lines] with tags or other text
• HTML 5 [Layout editor] to search and replace uniform <header>, <nav> , <footer> tag contents across pages