No, there isn't an easier way.

Fundamentally, a magazine page and a web page are two different things. The limitations in text handling are down to HTML, and not WebPlus per se. It doesn't matter how meticulously you curate your page, you cannot guarantee that it will look 'right' in everybody's browser.

Nowadays, many people surf the Net on smaller devices (phones and tablets), so creating responsive sites is all the more important, which is why I switched from WebPlus to WYSIWYG Web Builder a year ago.

The only way that you can guarantee that a web page will look like a magazine article is to turn the magazine page into a picture and add it to your page, but the text would not be searchable. This is why a lot of people will provide PDFs of things such as menus that they want visitors to see with the correct formatting.

I have completely changed my approach as it's too much effort for very little return and won't ever look right on the mobile devices that are pretty much ubiquitous these days.

The bottom line is that you are on a hiding to nothing, unfortunately. There is no panacea.

I always thought that there was a way to flow text from one column to another but couldn't find anything on X8.

I did find this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtEpWMfnvOY which shows (begining at 1.08) how to simply change a large text frame into x number of columns, but for the life of me I can't find the frame count gadget on X8. Is it on other versions?

Thanks, but I'm an 80 year old dog, not inclined to learn new tricks. Declining into senescence and obsolescence. I was hoping there was cheap-fix for WebPlus that wouldn't require much learning. But I still have enough energy to go back and manually insert hyphens to make lines and paragraphs come out right.

It was to be expected that the text in the published HTML would be static, but I’ve never understood why WebPlus didn’t have reflowable columns and linked text frames available in Design View.

This is another example of the problem with HTML text and images. I used to automatically flow text around images but I've forgotten how to do that. And WP Help is no help. So, I try to do it manually.

The top image below is what it looks like in WebPlus8. In this case, I simply indented the text on each line individually. I wasn't able to make the text auto-flow around the picture. The bottom image is what it looks like in a browser. Not WYSIWYG.

What am I missing?

I think having the heading centre-aligned with the picture (as in the first example) looks better, but the blank line before ‘I coined the term’ (as in the second example) is also needed.

On a stylistic note, why do you have ‘Either-Or’ in the heading but ‘Either/Or’ in the body text, and why have you used the camel-case form ‘BothAnd’ (instead of ‘Both-And’ or ‘Both/And’ to match one or the other of the above)?

Any forum thread should consist of a discussion between two or more parties, unless one person is talking to themselves! Otherwise you might as well not bother posting at all.

The OP is self-described as “an 80 year old dog, not inclined to learn new tricks”, which on the face of it seems to rule out a “think outside the box” approach.

You’re not imagining it. This isn’t really a WebPlus bug so much as a limitation of both the web and the era WebPlus was built in.

True WYSIWYG and HTML have always been slightly at odds. Text reflows based on screen size, browser, font rendering and user settings, so what you see in the editor is always a best-case preview. Justified text is especially fragile because browsers don’t handle spacing and hyphenation like print tools do.

On top of that, WebPlus predates a lot of modern CSS layout tools. Things like Flexbox, Grid, fluid containers and responsive typography give newer systems much better control over flow and spacing but WebPlus largely relies on fixed boxes and older layout models.

PagePlus felt more “print-like”, WebPlus aimed closer to real web output, but without today’s layout tools there was always a gap.

So to answer your question directly, there isn’t really a cheap trick that makes HTML behave like print-style WYSIWYG. The closest you can get is avoiding justification, keeping comfortable line lengths, and accepting some reflow as inevitable. Anything beyond that needs more modern layout control than WebPlus can provide.

I asked Pablo (WWB developer) about this a year ago and his response was similar to MeadowWeaver's above in that HTML and text flow, etc. are at odds. I don't believe he has any plans on addressing this.

As I have said (three times now), a web page is not a magazine page, and should be handled differently. Once you get into this mindset, you save yourself a lot of angst.

The illustrations are just two of several attempts to make text flow around the picture. I have forgotten how I used to do it, so these both show imperfect results. If I can find a way to make text flow around the image, I'll then deal with alignment of the title.

I started with PagePlus many years ago, and later migrated to WebPlus. Since my webpages are mostly for my own private use, and I don't get paid for doing this, and I only do a new blog post on occasion, I've never been forced to learn much about how WP8 works "under the hood". And, yes, I am painfully aware of the limitations of HTML, but I still strive to emulate printed text, for my own satisfaction. I am my own editor.

The BothAnd spelling is an idiosyncrasy of my philosophical blog. The Either-Or and Either/Or discrepancy is a result of two operations separated by an interval of time. The body text was copied and pasted from a separate page.

Any suggestions for reminding this "old dog", and amateur WP user, of how to wrap text around a picture?

I am sure you'll just ignore this, as you have ignored all of my posts so far in this thread, but there is and never was a text wrap option in WebPlus. The only way to do it is manually by eye.