What You See is What You Get
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) is a
term that describes the concept of visualizing the end result while you
are working. In the case of a site builder that simply means that you
should see your page and be able to change things directly on the
page. Site Builder lets you edit text anywhere on the page and use the
familiar word processing style tool bar for formatting text, inserting
pictures that flow with the text and creating tables for items that need
to line up.

What is truly different about
Site Builder is the way it handles page layouts. Traditionally, web
page layouts were done by creating complex tables which may have
included tables within tables and spanning of rows and columns to get
things positioned exactly where they are needed. This is a very
cumbersome way to control layout and one that is best left to the
experts. Site Builder has a simple approach - just drag around page elements
and Site Builder will take care of building these complex table structures
without user intervention.
Site Builder gives you two views of your page:
- The Edit Text tab lets
you edit the content of the elements. In this tab all of the elements
are actually part of an "invisible table structure" so the page will
flow as you add text.
- The Edit Layout tab lets
you move elements around on the page. You can drag and drop them,
size them and set properties such as decorations, background colors
and borders.

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