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Preparing a Template for Exporting Web Pages
If your publication templates vary little from issue to issue, you may be able to automate some of the processes involved in preparing a document for export. Try these techniques:
* Open the QuarkXPress template used to create the document. Use BeyondPress Preferences dialog boxes and the Elements palette to create all the Master Styles and Master HTML Elements you'll need, then set your Mapping and Web Page Preferences.
* If you have a logotype you want to include in the Web page, convert it to an image and experiment with different image settings.
* If you can, specify image settings for all your empty image boxes. For example, you might always scale your cover image to 75% and scale all other images to 50%. You might know that some of the image boxes always contain a photograph, so you can set the format to JPEG.
* Specify Master Styles for text elements when designing for an audience with a browser that does not support Cascading Style Sheets, TrueDoc, or Font Face Tags. For example, regardless of the style sheet or local formatting applied to a headline, you might want to always map it to Headline 1.
* Use Web Page Preferences to specify a header and footer for the Web page; switch to Elements palette, HTML, pane to create a new Master HTML Element for a header or footer.
* Preview the template continually to see how it looks.
Depending on how many items you add or delete from a template when you create your QuarkXPress documents, you may be able to simply add and rearrange a few items before exporting a Web page created from a prepared template.
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