Changing the desgn of markup items

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I haven’t a clue.

On a mac, the cart buttons on our site http://www.earthen.com have rounded corners but the browser shots I’ve seen from windows machines, the corners are a sharp 90 degrees. Why is that? And if I wanted to, how can I change the color and design of the cart buttons? They are markup items. I got the code from our shopping cart provider.

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Oh, I found out that the look of the buttons is OS specific. In windows they are ugly.

How do I change the “Add To Cart” and “View Cart” buttons to look the same with consistent spacing on all platforms.

Do I have to start with a new button is FW? I don’t know how to do buttons in FW. How do you add code to them and change their color and stuff?

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You can use Image buttons, and those are easy enough to make in
Freeway. But with the markup code you’re dealing with here, you’re
going to have to learn a bit of HTML to get them into your code. If
you draw a graphics box, and check the Submit checkbox on the bottom
of the Output tab of the Inspector, you will generate an image submit
button. In code, it looks like this:

<input type="image" src="path/to/image.gif" name="buttonName"

value=“Buy Now!” />

Your form will have a regular submit button in it, which looks like
this:

<input type="submit" name="buttonName" value="Buy Now!" />

The trick will be getting the two together.

Ugly or not, there’s a strong rationale for leaving buttons to look
the way they do. For one thing, users are trained to recognize these
buttons, since they are “native” in appearance. It looks like a thing
they’re used to pushing, and so they push it. I am usually confounded
when someone takes all the native styling out of a search field, for
example. What is this pale rectangle on the page for? What do I do
with it?

Walter

On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:55 PM, wurliuchi wrote:

Oh, I found out that the look of the buttons is OS specific. In
windows they are ugly.

How do I change the “Add To Cart” and “View Cart” buttons to look
the same with consistent spacing on all platforms.

Do I have to start with a new button is FW? I don’t know how to do
buttons in FW. How do you add code to them and change their color
and stuff?

Thank you.

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I found that in the cart’s markup item code, I can change the line which tells it where to get the image. Something so simple and it took me forever to figure it out.

Thanks for replying, Walter.

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