[Express] Newbie questions

Hi. Considering moving from iWeb. I’ve done the tutorial and searched here, but can’t find anything about these:

  1. I use a lot of text boxes, usually with black or dark text and fairly light backgrounds – is there a way to put (usually black) borders around them?

  2. Is there a way to do “expand/collapse” of text, similar to this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728 ?


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Welcome! :slight_smile:

On 1 Nov 2010, at 19:06, James Pond wrote:

Hi. Considering moving from iWeb. I’ve done the tutorial and searched here, but can’t find anything about these:

  1. I use a lot of text boxes, usually with black or dark text and fairly light backgrounds – is there a way to put (usually black) borders around them?

Yes, in the Inspector palette. Select the text box (HTML item in Freeway) and in the Inspector click the second icon across the top (appearance settings) and choose a color from the Border dropdown.

  1. Is there a way to do “expand/collapse” of text, similar to this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728 ?

You need Freeway Pro to do this which has a bunch of extra features (Actions) included. The one you want is Transition FX. There’s a page here that explains how to do it and has a sample file to download (Pro only) too:

http://users.softpress.com/joe/scriptaculous/

I hope this helps!

Joe


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Yes, in the Inspector palette. Select the text box (HTML item in Freeway) and in the Inspector click the second icon across the top (appearance settings) and choose a color from the Border dropdown.

Ah, great! Dunno why I couldn’t see it before!

You need Freeway Pro to do this

Rats. I was afraid of that.

http://users.softpress.com/joe/scriptaculous/

Very cool, though.

I hope this helps!

Yup. Thanks!


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