Just playing with freeway pro some more getting the hang of it, and did an experiment where the page is set to 1 color, and is centered. Then I draw a large graphic box and make that a different color and presto a nicely framed page, somewhat similar to the softpress site. Is that okay to do? because I stumbled across something on the softpress site about downloading an action and using photoshop (don’t have that app) to get that effect. So I was wondering if there is any problem doing it that first way? Partly why I ask is because I just built a minisite using that technique and wanted to check to see if there would be a problem doing it that way. Thanks
That will work okay, but it will not flex in height if the page has
more content or the visitor changes the browser font size.
In Freeway 5, if you create an HTML box, you can give it a graphic
background, and that will flex with changes to the page or browser,
as long as you have used inline content within it.
Walter
On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Waylen wrote:
Just playing with freeway pro some more getting the hang of it, and
did an experiment where the page is set to 1 color, and is
centered. Then I draw a large graphic box and make that a
different color and presto a nicely framed page, somewhat similar
to the softpress site. Is that okay to do? because I stumbled
across something on the softpress site about downloading an action
and using photoshop (don’t have that app) to get that effect. So I
was wondering if there is any problem doing it that first way?
Partly why I ask is because I just built a minisite using that
technique and wanted to check to see if there would be a problem
doing it that way. Thanks
I was wondering if I used all graphic boxes, including what is my current html box for written content if that would prevent browsers from changing the text size to larger since it is rendered as a graphic. This would maybe prevent things from mashing together. Its a low content 2 page site, nothing too fancy. Exited about FW5 coming soon, will have to try that trick!
Sometime around 15/3/08 (at 00:54 -0400) Waylen said:
I was wondering if I used all graphic boxes, including what is my
current html box for written content if that would prevent browsers
from changing the text size to larger since it is rendered as a
graphic. This would maybe prevent things from mashing together.
Sure. It would prevent that, and prevent it from printing crisply,
and prevent search engines from indexing it, and prevent people with
vision difficulties from being able to read your site easily…
The best approach is to find design techniques and solutions that
work with facts of web life such as HTML text size differences,
web-safe font limitations, and so on.
Yep, sometimes this is a PITA! But go on, see what you can manage.
