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If you have ever wanted to hyperlink a button, or a piece of text, in your site to a specific point on a page, EverWeb‘s Scroll Position is the feature that you will need to use. Hyperlinking in this way is like a ship dropping an anchor. The ship is always anchored to the anchoring point. The same is true when you use Scroll Position. You use one object on a page as the anchoring point to which other objects, such as a button or piece of text, are tethered to.

Introduced back in EverWeb 2.6, this was a time when EverWeb only supported Fixed Width page layouts. When Responsive Page Layouts were introduced to EverWeb in version 2.8, there was a need to introduce a new form of Scroll Position. This came when Set Shape as Scroll Position was added to EverWeb in EverWeb 3.2 in April 2020.

A Tale of Two Scroll Positions

So you may be wondering, why do we need two different types of Scroll Position? Essentially, we only really need one type of Scroll Position, that being Set Shape As Scroll Position. The reason being that this type of Scroll Position can be used on all page layout types, both Fixed Width and Responsive.

The other Scroll Position type, Insert Fixed Scroll Position, can only be used on a Fixed Width Page Layout but remains so that you if you are created a Fixed Width website using Scroll Position before EverWeb 3.2 then you are are still supported.

Essentially Insert Fixed Scroll Position remains for legacy purposes. It is also visually very distinctive is uses a horizontal line to easily show you where the Scroll Position is located on the page. For those using the Centered Layout page layout type it’s very easy to use.

With all this EverWeb history in mind, let’s look at the two Scroll Position versions in more detail…

Scroll Position For Fixed Width Pages

As mentioned above, EverWeb introduced Scroll Position with EverWeb version 2.6 back in December 2017. At this tine EverWeb was designed for use only with Fixed Width pages in mind, i.e. the Centered layout and Left Aligned layouts. For long time EverWeb users, there was a third page type that existed at the time called Dynamic. In reality the Left Aligned and Dynamic page layout types were not used, so the Centered Layout type was the one we all used.

The addition of the Scroll Position feature also meant that the feature was also added to EverWeb’s Toolbar. It still remains there to this day, but also can be accessed using the Insert-> Insert Fixed Scroll Position menu option.

When you add this type of Scroll Position, it will be added to the page as a blue line across the page. You can drag and drop the line to where you want it placed. Each Scroll Position that you add also has a unique name on the page that it is on. You can easily change the name, just select the Scroll Position then change the name by clicking on the Widget Settings tab in the Inspector Window then editing the Unique Name field. By default, the name given to the Scroll Position is the pixel point on the page that the Scroll Position is initially located at.

To use the Scroll Position, select the text in your button, or piece of text you want to use, then go to the Hyperlinks Inspector. Check the box ‘Enable as Hyperlink’. The Link To field should be set as ‘One of My Pages’. The Page field should either be set to ‘Current’, or the name of the page the Scroll Position is located on. This means that you can link to positions on other pages in your site. Once you have completed these steps, test your page using the Preview button in the Toolbar.

If you want to delete the Scroll Position, simply highlight it, then press the Backspace key.

Scroll Position For Responsive and Fixed Width Pages

Set Shape as Scroll Position debuted in EverWeb 3.2 and as its name implies, you add your Scroll Position to an object on the page. To use this feature, select the object that you want to scroll to. This could be, for example, a shape, TextBox or even a widget such as the FlexBox widget. Remember that you can use this type of Scroll Position on either a Fixed Width or Responsive Page. After selecting the object that you want to use, go to the Scroll Position button in the Toolbar. Select the ‘Set Shape as Scroll Position’ option. You will see that a blue anchor symbol added to the selected object. You will also be asked at the same time to name the Scroll Position with a name that is unique to the page.

You can then use the Scroll Position in the same way as outlined in the section above for Insert Fixed Scroll Position.

If you want to rename the Scroll Position, select the object that uses the Scroll Position. Next, go to the Shape Options tab and open the Scroll Position section if it is not already open. Edit, or enter a new name. If you want to delete the Scroll Position just leave the field completely empty.

Displaying Scroll Position

When using Scroll Position, you will either see a blue horizontal line if you used Insert Fixed Scroll Position, or a blue anchor symbol in the top right hand corner of the object if you used Set Shape as Scroll Position. The Insert Fixed Scroll Position visual indicator will always display. When using Set Shape as Scroll Position the anchor symbol will not display if you have set Window-> Show Layout to ‘Hide Layout’ in which case it will not be visible..

Which Scroll Position To Use?

Our recommendation is to use Set Shape as Scroll Position. The main reason for this is that even if you are currently working in a Fixed Width environment, you may at some stage migrate to a Responsive Page Layout, so you will be working consistently at all times just using one style of Scroll Position. No frustration or relearning needed!

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EverWeb Site Shield Addon launched back in July 2017 coinciding with the launch of EverWeb 2.3. Updates to Site Shield came in 2022 and also in 2024, which means that our original Q&A from 2018 is now a bit dated. So let’s fix that with an updated EverWeb Site Shield Addon Q&A 2026 Edition!

Q. What is EverWeb Site Shield Addon?

A. EverWeb Site Shield Addon enables end to end data encryption of your website data, right from your Hosting Server to your website visitor’s browser window.

Q. What version of EverWeb do I need to use Site Shield Addon?

A. We recommend always using the latest version of EverWeb wherever possible. At the time of this Q&A, EverWeb 2.9.1 is the minimum available EverWeb software and EverWeb 4.4.3 is the latest version. If you have a current EverWeb Support and Updates plan, use the EverWeb-> Check for Update… menu on macOS, or Help-> Check for Update… menu in Windows, to update your EverWeb to the latest version. 

If you do not have a current Support and Updates plan, you can purchase this through your EverWeb Client Area.

Q. I’m an EverWeb for Windows user. Is Site Shield available for Windows users as well as Mac users?

Yes, Site Shield Addon can be used on EverWeb for Windows and EverWeb for Mac.

Q. Is Site Shield Addon the same as an SSL Certificate?

Secure websites use HTTPS and this is enabled through an SSL Certificate. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it creates an encrypted connection that establishes trust in data transfer between web browser and web server. Site Shield Addon is EverWeb’s branding for the SSL Certificate including EverWeb’s exclusive easy HTTPS implementation from directly within the product at just the click of a button.

Q. Do I need an EverWeb+Hosting Account to be able to use Site Shield Addon?

A. You don’t need to have an EverWeb+Hosting account. Site Shield Addon works if you host with your own Hosting Provider or if have an EverWeb+Hosting account.

Q. If I am hosting with my own provider. What do I need to use EverWeb Site Shield Addon?

A. If you host with your own Hosting Provider, you will need to obtain a valid SSL Certificate from them before using Site Shield addon. There are no other requirements.

Q. How do I get Site Shield Addon?

A. If you have an EverWeb+Hosting 2GB account or an EverWeb Standalone account you can purchase Site Shield Addon through your EverWeb Client Area.

If you have a an EverWeb+Hosting 10GB, or higher, account, Site Shield Addon is absolutely free and can be activated through your EverWeb Client Area.

Q. How much does Site Shield Addon Cost?

A. If you have an EverWeb+Hosting 10GB or higher account, Site Shield Addon is absolutely free. For EverWeb+Hosting 2GB accounts, or if you have an EverWeb Standalone license, Site Shield Addon costs $39.95 USD* per year. In both instances there are no additional costs involved in upgrading your website from HTTP to secure HTTPS.

*Prices may be subject to change, so check our website for current pricing details.

Q. Why do I see a Grey/Black Padlock and not a Green Padlock when I have Upgraded to HTTPS?

A. When using HTTPS, you usually see a padlock displayed to the left of the website URL in the browser search bar. You may have noticed that the padlock on some websites is dark grey or black but on other other websites it is green. For all intents and purposes, there is no difference as both indicate that the website is secure. The difference in color indicates that encryption has been implemented technically in different ways.

Q. What happens if I have HTTP references in my website links in EverWeb? Do I need to change these?

A. It is not necessary to change these references, but it is better to do so as this will ensure data encryption.

Q. I checked the box ‘HTTPS Secure URLs’ and published my website, but don’t see the Padlock displayed.

A. If you do not see the padlock displayed in the browser search bar when viewing your website, check the URL in the search box of your browser. You should see that your URL starts with HTTPS. If not make sure that you publish your entire site using the File-> Publish Entire Site menu option.

If you still do not see the padlock, it  is possible that there is not a secure link to an image, widget, fonts or other object on the page. You may need to remove objects one by one to test to see which object is causing the problem. If you are tech savvy, you can use the ‘Inspect Element’ of Safari’s Developer menu to locate the problem (or your browser’s equivalent of this tool.) If you have inserted any code directly in to the page (using the HTML Snippet widget) or in the Page or Site Settings using the Header/Footer Code sections, this may also be the cause of the problem. Try removing any code you may have inserted and test again.

Q. If I have more than one website can I use Site Shield Addon for all of these as well?

Yes, if you have more than one website under your EverWeb website domain, you can use the HTTPS Secure URLs checkbox in Site Publishing Settings for all of your websites.

The post EverWeb Site Shield Addon Q&A 2026 Edition first appeared on Website Building for Mac OS X | EverWeb Website Builder.

Your EverWeb made website will probably combine one or more of the following functions: To inform, communicate, engage with and offer space for community, promote brand identity, and facilitate transactions. If the latter, transactions, if important, you might want to combine with the communication and engagement functions to maximize your site’s earning potential. EverWeb includes widgets such as the PayPal Modern and Stripe widgets, with many other ways to integrate other payment providers. B ut you might want to take the sale of your goods and services a step further by offereing a Membership Site.

Why a Membership Site?

Starting your own membership site can have a number of advantages for your business:

1. Can provide you with recurring income
2. Allows you to offer exclusive content to your members
3. Facilitates better audience engagement
4. Can give you better insights in to your audience
5. You have control over who has access to your content

Whilst the advantages sound good, you should also consider these other factors before starting with your own Membership Site:

1. Keeping Content Ongoing. Members will expect new content on a regular basis
2. Membership Account Management needs to ba factored in, especially as your membership grows
3. Keeping Your Members can also be a challenge due to their expectations and what can be delivered
4. Higher Expectations especially from paying members who expect more exclusive content,

Adding EverWeb Membership Sites

After evaluating whether a Membership Site is right for your business, the next step is to get started. Using EverWeb’s Membership Sites add-on is the easy way to integrate a Membership Site in to your EverWeb site. The links are already in place in EverWeb itself.

You can purchase your EverWeb Membership Sites license from this link. Select Membership Sites from the menu options on the left of the page. Here you will find three different levels of Membership Site that you can choose from:

• Membership Starter – Free Entry Level
• Membership Plus – $10 USD / Month
• Membership Deluxe – $50 USD / Month

If you find that the plan that you have selected is not the right one, you can change this at any time in the future. To do this, login to your EverWeb Client Area. Go to the Services menu option, then choose My Services. Click on the down arrow next to the Spanner icon to the right of your Membership Site product addon. Choose Manage Product. You can then change your Membership Sites plan as required. If you have any problems, EverWeb Support will be able to help.

Getting Your Membership Site Up and Running

After purchasing the plan that meets your needs, you will receive an email with a EverWeb Membership Sites Widgets collection that you will need to use when building your membership site. Instructions are provided on how to install the widgets.

Getting your Membership Site up and running will take some time and effort. There will be work to do at the front end in EverWeb. This will be where you will be building your membership site’s user interface using the widgets pack that you were emailed when you signed up.

For the front end of your membership site, the widgets will allow you to create a Membership Sign Up page, a Member Login page, an Email verification page, a Change Password page, a Membership Profile page, a Membership Payment page, and a button for quickly logging out of the Membership Site.

Using the widgets is just the start as you will also need to make pages for your content. The number of pages you will need for this depends on how much content per membership level you have. You will probably also want to create pages for circumstances where a member has cancelled their account, or where you have had to suspend their account. For more information on building the front end of your EverWeb Membership Site, check out post, Creating Your EverWeb Membership Site Front End.

There’s also the back end of your membership site to create. This is where you manage all of the administration tasks that are associated with your membership. As well as administering your member details and payment methods, you will also use the backend of Membership Sites to set up your membership levels, emailing options, set up and administer discounts and so on. For more information on how to create and manage your Membership Site’s Backend check out our post, Creating Your EverWeb Membership Site’s Backend.

Planning Your EverWeb Membership Site

The most important part of your Membership Site is planning as much of it as you can in advance. We have a complete section on EverWeb Membership Sites in our website to help get you started. We recommend that you follow the steps outlined so you can see what work is involved for your own site, what you may not have thought of (e.g. time and administration considerations), as well as making sure that you have content that adds value for each membership level, both now and in the future. Planning activities that tie in to your Membership Site, such as promotions, discounts, periodic sales (e.g. Black Friday), marketing activities etc., will all help you be as best prepared as possible before you begin.

Planning is also in advance is also helpful so that you can roll out your Membership Site in stages if necessary, and will be less overwhelming as you will not have to do everything all at once.

The post Monetizing Your Website with EverWeb’s Membership Sites Addon! first appeared on Website Building for Mac OS X | EverWeb Website Builder.

In the first part of our post on Creating a Navigation Menu using EverWeb’s Containers feature, we designed a button using two rectangle shapes. The button will be used as the basis of our navigation. The two rectangle shapes making up the button were customized and lined up side by side. The rectangle on the left side is used for the chapter number with the right hand rectangle being used for the chapter title.

In this post, we will next add our completed design in to a Container. Then we will tweak the design so that it looks like the button you see in the image above. We will then work with EverWeb’s Containers feature to get our navigation completed, tested and published!

Hyperlinking The Button

Now that we have the text within each of the our rectangle shapes, we set up a hyperlink to the page we want. In this case it would be to the Welcome! Page in our site. In this example, we are not going to hyperlink the chapter number, just the chapter title text. Highlight the text ‘Welcome!’ in the right hand side button then go to the Hyperlinks Inspector. Click on the ‘Enable as Hyperlink’ checkbox to activate its settings, Next, check that the Link To field is set as ‘One of my pages.’ If it is set to e.g. ‘An external page’ change this to ‘One of my pages.’ Next, go to the Page field and set the page to your Welcome! page. Adjust the Hyperlink Formatting colors and underlines to suit your navigation. In this example, we are going to keep the Normal and Visited colors the same and not have any of the hyperlinked text underlined as this will spoil the look of our button. There is another way in which we can highlight the button when we need to…

Using Shape Options: Fill

We can draw attention to the button when a visitor hovers over it, or clicks on it, by using the Shape Options Fill feature. If the text is still highlighted, click on an area in the Responsive Row instead. The rectangle should become selected, If not, click on the right hand button. Now go to the Shape Options tab in the Inspector. In the Fill section, change the ‘Normal’ menu option to ‘Mouse Over’. In the field below, which is set to ‘None’ by default, change this to Color Fill. Next, choose a color that you want to use for when your visitors mouse over the button. Remember that the text color should remain readable when you do so. Once you have selected your mouse over color, try mousing over the button to see it working.

Adding the Button in to a Container

The button is now complete. We will be using this button as our template for all of the others that we are going to use in our navigation, so make sure you have completed all of the styling that you want before you continue.

As we always want to keep the two parts of the button together, we are going to put them together in their own container. First, select both of the rectangle shapes. Once you have done this, right click over one of the shapes. A pop up menu will appear. Mouse down to the Contain As… menu option, then Choose the ‘Row’ option. The buttons will now be contained inside their own Container!

Styling the Container

The Container will take the full width of the Responsive Row, and you will also see a dashed line inside the container which is the 20 pixel padding which is added by EverWeb when you create a container. To start, we are going to reduce the width of the button container. Go to the Metrics Inspector and uncheck the Full Width checkbox. You will now be able to access the Width setting for the Container. Change the value to 250 pixels. This should give you enough space for the Chapter button text. If not use a value that is appropriate to the longest text that you are going tp use. Sometimes, though, it is better to shorten the button’s title rather than having too long a title. In this instance it is a good idea to think as if you were designing a menu using the Navigation Bar widget.

The second thing to look at is also the height of the button. Make sure that there is enough space so that the text looks comfortable inside the button. Not too squeezed and not too much dead space. In our example, using an 18 point font, we decided that a button height of 58 pixels was good.

As the button is comprised of two parts, we also want to make sure that there is a clear, but small division, between the right hand side of the chapter number rectangle and the left hand side of the chapter title rectangle. We can set how much of a gap we want using EverWeb’s Padding and Margins options.

Setting Button Padding and Margins

To add some spacing between the two rectangles, select the Chapter Title rectangle. Next go to the Metrics Inspector. In the Margins and Padding section, set a left margin (the outer left field) to two. This should be enough to create a nice gap between the two parts of the button.

Now we turn our attention to the Container itself. Here the default padding is set at 20 which for our navigation is too much. To change this, click on the container itself then change the padding from 20 to 10. Finally, select the Responsive Row itself and set its left and right margins to 30 and its top and bottom margins to 20.

Completing the Navigation

The navigation is almost complete. The final step is to select the button Container and duplicate it eleven times so that you have the twelve menu items required in the scenario. Here you can just copy the button container, then paste it 11 times in to the Responsive Row.

Change the chapter numbers and chapter titles as required. Don;’t forget to also update the hyperlinks for each chapter, so that the visitor will go to the correct chapter!

You can see how the finished result looks by either reducing the width of the EverWeb UI, or by using the Preview button in the Toolbar. The 12 menu items should wrap as you alter the width of the EverWeb UI or browser window. If it does not do this, select the Responsive Row and make sure that Wrap is selected in the Behaviour field.

Our navigation is now complete. use preview to test out your design. Remember to also use EverWeb’s Preview QR Code feature so that you can see how the design looks on a mobile device.

The post Creating a Navigation Menu with EverWeb’s Containers: Part Two first appeared on Website Building for Mac OS X | EverWeb Website Builder.

The new Container feature that debuted in EverWeb version 4.4 is a great way to realize your design goals as it’s incredibly versatile. In this post, we are going to show you how to create an effective, customized navigation for your home page.

The Scenario

In this scenario, we are going to create a fictitious online usite for the EverWeb User Manual. You can find the EverWeb User Manual from the link in the bottom left hand corner of the Projects Window when you launch EverWeb or from the Help-> EverWeb PDF Manual menu option. In this scenario we are going to create 12 buttons which will take you to each of the first twelve chapters of the online manual.

There are various different ways in which this project can be achieved, such as using a Text Section widget, but in this instance we are going to use Containers as this will enable us to be more creative with our design.

You can see a what we are going to achieve in the cover image at the top of this post. The twelve buttons are styled with rounded corners. Each button is comprised of two half rounded rectangles in a container. The spacing of the buttons is also something which can be controlled as well. These type of features are not achievable with the Text Section or FlexBox widgets.

Prerequisites

The only prerequisite you will need for this tutorial is to have EverWeb 4.4 or higher, for macOS or Windows installed. If you have a version of EverWeb prior to this, click on the EverWeb-Check for Update… menu option on a Mac or use the Help-> Check for Update… if you are using Windows to update your version of EverWeb.

Creating a Container For The Chapter Buttons

The first thing we need to do is to create a container within which we will add all of the chapter buttons in to, as you can see in the image at the top of the post. To do this, click on the Containers button in the Toolbar and select ‘Responsive Row’. Once you have added the Responsive Row to the page, click on the Settings Cog in the Responsive Row’s Toolbar, then click on Name… and rename the Responsive Row as ‘Chapter Row’.

In this example, we will add margins around the Responsive Row widget. With the widget selected, go to the Metrics Inspector and set top and bottom margins to 20 and the left and right margins to 30 pixels in the Margins & Padding section. We can now start on the button design.

Creating The Button Design

As you can see from the image at the top of the post, the button is comprised of two rectangle shapes ‘joined’ together. The rectangle on the left contains the chapter number. The side of the button has rounded upper and lower corners on the right hand side. The rectangle on the right contains the chapter title and has rounded corners on the upper and lower right hand side. The two rectangles are ‘joined’ together using a Container Row.

Start creating the button by clicking on the ‘+’ button in the center of the Responsive Row widget. From the menu, select the Shapes option then choose the first shape, which is a rectangle. Note that when you use the regular rectangle shape, you can change the look of any of its corners. If you used the next shape option, the rounded rectangle, you would only be able to change all the corners at once, not individually.

The next step is to style the shape as we want. First, click on the Metrics Inspector button so that we can adjust the size of the button. Set the button width at 30 pixels and the height to 35 pixels. Next, click on the Shape Options button and click on the ‘Custom Border Radius’ checkbox in ‘Borders Options’ to activate its settings. Set the upper and lower right borders to 20 pixels.

Finally, click inside the shape and enter the number ‘1’ for chapter one. Now we need to style the text and position it where we want it within the shape. To do this, select the text then go to the Text Inspector. Adjust the font and font size as you want. In our example, we are using Montserrat 18 point regular. To position the number correctly within the shape, go to the Alignment section and choose Right Aligned and Middle. The number will not look properly aligned as we want it so we need to adjust a couple of settings in the Spacing section. Here, set the After Paragraph value to zero and the Insert Margin setting to 5. Depending on the Fonts you use, you might need to experiment a little with these settings to get the alignment as you desire.

To complete the button, you may need to check that the height of the button is still 35 pixels in the Metrics Inspector. If it is not, then change the value back to 35.

Creating the Second Part of the Button

Now that we have created the left side of the button we need to create the right side of the button. Click on an area inside of the Responsive Row widget, then click on the Shapes button in the Toolbar. As before, click on the first shape which is the rectangle. Size this to be 200 pixels wide (to accommodate the chapter title) and 35 pixels in height.

This time we will round the corners of the rectangle on the right hand side. Again, make sure that the rectangle is selected, then go to the Shape Options tab and click on ‘Custom Border Radius’ in the Border Options section, to activate the settings. Set the right hand side upper and lower corner values to 20.

The final step is to add a Chapter Title in to the button. Click inside the button and enter the text ‘Welcome!’ as the title of our first chapter. Style the text using the Fonts that you used for the first button. Once you have completed the styling, highlight the Welcome! text, In the Text Inspector set the Alignment to Left Aligned. The After Paragraph value should again be zero and this time the Insert Margin value should be set to 10. Remember to also check in the Metrics Inspector that the button height is 35 pixels. Adjust the value back to 35 if needed.

If the second shape is to the left of the first shape, just drag and drop it so that it is to the right instead. You should have what looks like a pill shape button composed of two rounded rectangle shapes.

Next Steps…

Now that our button design is essentially complete, we will next add our design in to a Container, tweak the design a little so it looks like the button you see in the image above, then work with EverWeb’s Containers feature to get our navigation completed, tested and published. All this coming in Part Two!

The post Creating a Navigation Menu With EverWeb’s Containers: Part One first appeared on Website Building for Mac OS X | EverWeb Website Builder.