If WebSite-Watcher detects an update, the changes in the text will be highlighted. WebSite-Watcher supports several methods to highlight textual changes.
Standard
The standard method is a general purpose method which should work with nearly all types of pages. It has been designed to ignore changes in the page structure (for example when content is moved between table columns) and works very well for news pages. It is a general purpose method while the other methods are optimized for special situations or page types.
Forum (table based)
This highlight method is optimized for table based forums and tries to highlight whole topic lines when a new topic or reply has been posted. To use that highlight method, you have to assign a Forum-Template which can be done interactively with the Forum-Wizard. This wizard will also configure all other important options (such as ignore/watch filters), no further bookmark configuration is required in that case. This is the most efficient way to monitor table based forums. The topic list must list the time of the last post, otherwise this method will not work.
Table based (highlight whole, changed rows)
You can choose this highlight method if you want to highlight whole lines of a table when at least the content of single cell has been changed. To prevent highlighting a whole line when only columns with a single number have been changed, you can select the option "Cells with a changed number don't highlight the whole line".
Exact
The exact method uses a more detailed analysis to detect changes. It may work well with pages where only some details are updated, for example single numbers within a table. It's dependent from the page if that method works better than the Standard method.