Brian, thank you for the speedy reply. (I appreciate that because it’s still daytime here in Japan, and I am still in the midst of working on this problem.)
First, it is vital I reiterate that I am brain dead to code. Indeed, such is what led me to Freeway 2.0 back in 1999. I’ve been stuck on Freeway ever since. As such, I enjoy letting my “visual designer” spring forth and produce, by and large, WYSIWYG design in Freeway. Adding “Extended…” attributes are doable for me, but I certainly do not get excited about it. I consider it an annoyance that I must endure for now. Source Code Snooper is truly a last resort for me because I really don’t know what I am doing when it comes to hacking page code.
Because of this, FireFox and FireBug are not really that helpful to someone like me. So that is mainly why I am discussing my various troubles at length in this forum.
Freeway 5 opens many doors to CSS layout that wasn’t possible in earlier versions. However, those CSS layout doors are half closed to people such as myself who design “visually” rather than by code. I therefore consider any adding/tweaking of code “workarounds” for Freeway’s existing GUI, until it can incorporate basic functions in a rather graphic way (as MacWrite did for based word processing back in 1984, blowing away DOS and CP/M programs of the day where codes had to be added and there was an utter dearth of WYSIWYG).
All of the things I have been discussing on FreewayTalk over the past week are what I consider “basic things in CSS that any web designer would want to put on his or her page.” It’s fundamental web page design, not a specialty application like a web database. For example, who doesn’t want a simple yet clean-looking search field that looks largely the same in most of the major browsers? Who doesn’t want to spruce up something with a drop shadow? Most all of us do. We just don’t know how to go about it on the web using manually written code. That’s why we embrace Freeway. Yes, some of the Freeway faithful have gone off to RabidWeaver and other competing template-based solutions to more easily achieve “the fundamentals.” But I still have a great love for Freeway, and I want more power (albeit, “WYSIWYG power”) that only Freeway can offer.
Now with all this in mind, please allow me to offer you a more direct reply to your post…
I tried a separate DIV, but that didn’t work at all. Indeed, trying a separate DIV was one of the first things I tried, and I came back to PageDIV when that didn’t work. But as I describe above, PageDIV is giving me troubles too.
Another consideration is, if I work hard and finally get the dynamixlabs example to work on my page, the fact remains that I still like the realmacsoftware.com page shadows better. But I am not about to use their software to go about it! So I am curious how we all might go about this in Freeway 5. (I have taken the time to write so much detail because I know SoftPress is listening, and they may have something to add. I do not seek a solution for “James Wages alone” but for all Freeway 5 users.)
Many thanks,
James Wages
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