III. Viewing your table design

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As you design your table, you may want to preview your work to see how it will look or to make sure that your slicing will work (if your using custom slices). EZRound makes this simple.

HINT: You can press the F11 key at any time to jump to the preview window with the current settings (as shown on the View menu) and with the current design. Pressing F11 again while in the preview window will exit the preview


To access the preview from the menu system, click the View option.



To help you simulate how your design will look in real life, EZRound lets you control how it will be used in the preview. You can make the following changes:

Table Width: This setting will force your design to be a certain width. Note that in normal HTML table behavior inserting a larger object (such as a photo) will force the table to expand in size. You can enter the table width in pixels, or add a % (percent) sign to have the table occupy a percentage of the screen width.

Table Height: This setting is optional. If you don't specify it, then the table generated will be the minimum height required to hold your slices and the sample text content. If you switch modes in the Previewer to add more text or a photo, the table will grow in size.

Table Align: This setting will justify the table (left, center, right) in the browser.

Wallpaper: If you use wallpaper on your website, you can specify it here and EZRound will generate the preview page with it. This is useful to test how your design will look against it.

Note: If you are using wallpaper, then you will usually want to enable the "Background Color is Transparent" option on the color menu. This will produce a better effect in most cases.

To select wallpaper, just click the "..." button.

To clear the selection, click the eraser button.

There is a button on the bottom of the page that will save these values as the default settings to be used when creating a new table design.

When you are satisfied with your settings, click one of the preview buttons:

Internal - this will open your design in the EZRound built-in HTML browser.

External - this will open your design in the browser that is configured to be your default Windows browser.

HTML - this will open the internal browser in Source View mode so you can see the HTML used for the design.