Thank you for your purchase!

It's very simple to install PowerEffects and be up and running in just a few
minutes. The only requirement is PHP 4.1.0+ installed on your web server
(PHP 5+ recommended, but not required). All Apache servers are likely to
be compatible.

Step 1: Create a folder on your web server in your www root folder
(for example: power)



Step 2: Upload all files to that folder

Step 3: Go to www.yourdomain.com/power (if you used power as the folder name)
and start creating effects!


Some tips:

1) Sometimes effects behave differently depending on what is before or after 
them. For example, Appear will fade In if not already visible, or remain
unchanged if already visible. In other words, Appear is the same as doing
nothing when it's already visible (however, in preview mode it will always
fade in on Appear).

2) Some effects don't work well in IE, so test them on both FF and IE. For example,
IE doesn't like Shrink, so if you use that effect, IE users will
see a Fade In (PowerEffects handles this automatically for you). On
Firefox they'll see the Shrink effect.

3) To see a preview of the HTML you entered, click away from the HTML field
and the preview area below will update automatically.

4) When inputting HTML, it's best to use SPANS and STYLES instead of <P>,
tables, and the "older" HTML tags. This is because of the way newer browsers
work with Dynamic HTML layers (which is what makes PowerEffects work). As
such, much is dependent on the individual browsers.

However, I think you'll find PowerEffects works well on just about any
modern browser platform.

If you expect to see a fade in/out, and the content just appears or disappears,
it's almost always due to older "traditional" HTML tags in there.

When you need to do a line break, use <BR> instead of </P>

The good news is, most web page designers now use styles and spans almost
exclusively, so simply copying the HTML source your editor makes for you
and pasting it in the PowerEffects Designer will work just fine.

5) To see an effect transition occur (i.e. fade in/out, etc.) other than the
single frame preview (i.e. on the final preview or ultimately on your website),
you'll need to create more than one frame. If you want it to fade out, for
example, just create another frame and leave the HTML field empty. Set the
duration for a second or 2.

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A common question asked is: "Can I use different fonts or is there a default
font for the titles?"

Answer: Yes, you can use whatever fonts you want. Whatever colors, font sizes, 
bold, italics, underline, graphics, a text and graphics mix, pretty much 
anything that HTML allows with one caveat:

Because this software works using dynamic HTML layers, the effects don't 
always work properly with older HTML 1.0 tags like tables and <P> tags. 
Instead, it works with <SPAN> tags and CSS styles. This is a browser issue, 
and nothing related to my software. But styles are much more feature-rich 
and can do anything those older tags can do (including "tables"), only much 
better.

However, most newer web page editors (like NVU, for instance) already use 
spans and styles instead of the outdated <STRONG> tags and such.

One other clarification:

You don't need to use style sheets, unless you want to.

The old HTML 1.0 way of bolding some text, for example, is the following:

<B>Some Text</B>

or

<STRONG>Some Text</STRONG>

With SPAN and styles, it looks like this:

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Some Text</span>

There are some good reference pages out there. Just Google 
"CSS styles reference" if you want to get your hands dirty.

But as I mentioned, nearly every web page editor available today 
will do all of this for you if you don't want to hand code it.

And with the preview available right in the PowerEffects Designer, 
you'll be able to preview any changes you make in real time, so you 
can tweak it to your heart's content before you decide to use it, 
and even then you can always go back and edit it again if you don't 
like the final preview.

I typically just use NVU to design a headline, for example, get it to 
look the way I want, then copy and paste the HTML it generates right 
into PowerEffects. From there I can tweak it even further, if I wish, 
without having to go back to NVU (even though I always can).

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If you want to add PowerEffects to your blog, you may need to add certain
components in different files, because the blog software typically splits
pages up.

For example, I added an effect to my right sidebar on my Wordpress blog.
Here's what I did:

I put the Javascript includes (because they need to go in the <HEAD></HEAD> 
section) in my current theme's index.php file, and I put the Javascript 
include for the actual effect in my current theme's sidebar.php 
(the current theme is the theme I selected for my blog, so you'll need 
to edit the index.php and sidebar.php in that theme's folder to 
duplicate what I did).

PowerEffects creates all of this code for you. The only difference 
between a regular web page and something like Wordpress is that WP's 
web page is split among multiple PHP files, hence the need to put 
the includes in two different files.

If you have trouble getting yours to work, just open up a support ticket
(see below) and let me know.

As for the external Javascript files themselves (that PowerEffects 
also gives you), I just put them in the main /blog folder (NOT the 
current theme folder, and you'll need to do the same).

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NOTE: Be sure the name you choose for each animation doesn't contain any spaces. 
If it does, it wont work. Javascript doesn't like spaces in the middle of their variable names!

And finally, if you haven't already, I strongly suggest you sign up for updates
here:

http://www.idouseit.com/GreatHeadlines/Updates4PE.html


The reason is I'll be coming out with videos and other resources to help you
get the most of this tool. Plus there are enhancements and upgrades in the
works, and by signing up, you'll get free upgrades for life!

If you don't sign up, I'll have no way of knowing how to reach you!

Again, thanks for your purchase, and if you have any suggestions for
improvements or just want to give me some feedback, I welcome any and all
of it.

Sincerely,

Rick Macaulay