Is this still the best way to achieve this with the Freeway 6?
best regards,
Marcus
On 28 Nov 2006, 6:31 am, Michael wrote:
There are different ways of achieving the result you want. Here’s one I’ve used:
CSS layout is ON.
Make an HTML item that is 100% wide and 100% high. Call it “wrapper”, for instance.
With the text cursor active inside “wrapper”, choose Insert HTML Item. Call this item “content”.
In the Inspector panel make sure that there is nothing in the width box for “content”: the width of this element is undefined. It should now fill the width of “wrapper”
Give “content” a custom left margin of however pixels you need for the menu bar.
On the left-hand side of the page, draw the fixed-size HTML item that will contain the menu bar.
I know there are other techniques: I remember looking at this question in detail but it’s a while ago and I can’t remember all the things I tried out. Depending on your particular needs (footer, vertical flexibility, whatever) there may be a better way.
Yes, lately I’ve been looking at some nice fluid/responsive websites and I really like the fact that independent of what screen resolutions visitors are using, it will adjust the view without cutting anything or blowing up the images in a horrible way as I’ve seen my own site in a 1024 x 768 screen the other day… I had no idea we had this template available. I’ve just watched the video tutorial and it seems really easy to use it. I think this is the way to go
I was reading a thread about responsive websites and saw a very impressive responsive site of The Big Erns. He mentioned he would be probably releasing a template soon…not sure if he did it already
I was reading a thread about responsive websites and saw a very impressive
responsive site of The Big Erns. He mentioned he would be probably
releasing a template soon…not sure if he did it already
No, not soon. Oh, I want to… believe me. But I can’t.
Not until Softpress fixes what I have described as a flawed CSS
implementation in the way Freeway Pro 6 handles Master Items Styles.
Master Pages, and Master Items are the obvious choice for updating common
elements like Navigation, Header and Footer elements… however, the current
CSS strategy Freeway Pro 6 uses for handling the styling of these
structures makes writing responsive code for them unnecessarily difficult
to do, and nightmarish to support.
There is a responsive template from Caleb Grove ( http://backdraft.onrampwebdesign.com). Yet even with Caleb’s brilliant
template you must still work-around the use of Master Pages and Items.
Yes, master page support is a bugger as it stands. There is one half workaround though: you can use master pages, you just have to make sure that you go to every page right before you publish or preview and deselect “use master settings” and “use master content” on all the master-based elements.
I understand the problem, Ernie… Let’s hope Softpress fix it soon. I am looking forward to use this template in the future as also Caleb’s template which is really nice too. It has different layouts. In 2010 after 30 years of being a graphic designer focused on print, dojng album covers for the record companies, brochures and posters I decided to learn web design and let me tell you it’s a completely different and fascinating world but also has a learning curve I’ve been climbing little by little every day. Slower than I wanted, because my time doesn’t allow me, but constant. As part of this learning journey I will also take a look at kimmich’s box-model screencasts. Freeway made this a lot easier for me as I don’t code, yet. I really love Freeway. It doesn’t limit our creativity and makes all the codes.