As a newbie with big ideas, is it physically possible using Freeway to build a full frame site?
My ideal is http://www.fairline.com/
after the intro bit.
Our first attempt using Freeway was http://www.ed-training.co.uk its a factual website, the next one needs large scale rapid imagery, its all about the look and less about the text. Full frame if possible would be perfect.
Thanks for your reply, ignoring the fact that the example site is flash, is it possible using freeway to create a site which is very fluid and full frame?
Please excuse my stupidity, I am very new to Freeway and Flash would be out of the question for me!
Thanks for your reply, ignoring the fact that the example site is
flash, is it possible using freeway to create a site which is very
fluid and full frame?
Please excuse my stupidity, I am very new to Freeway and Flash would
be out of the question for me!
You can make a page that “stretches” to fill the available space. Add
a new page to your site, and make sure that its “Align” property is
not set to anything. (Don’t center it or align Left or Right.) Then
draw each HTML element on the page and change its width from whatever
pixel value Freeway gives you to a percentage value. It doesn’t matter
exactly what you enter for the width, because once you make this
switch from pixel dimensions to percentages, Freeway will remember the
units you prefer, and as you drag the element to resize it, the
percentage will change to match how it looks on the page.
When you preview in a browser, you will see that an object drawn at
100% width will fill the screen all the way from left to right. So too
an object drawn with 100% height.
If you want to have a page that completely fills the screen and
doesn’t show a title bar or scrollbars, then Flash is truly the only
way. But if you can live with a title bar, then use the Spawn New
Window Action to make a pop-up window that fills the screen and has
only the title bar set to show. And within that “daughter” window,
show your 100% x 100% page layout. Just remember never to have a
window like this pop open without explanation. Resizing the main
browser window is a completely hostile act, and will get you banned
from my computer and those of an incredibly vocal minority of like-
minded people. But do whatever you like with a popup, as long as the
popup is the result of deliberate user choice and is explained before
it happens.
Walter
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:55 PM, MandyG wrote:
Thanks for your reply, ignoring the fact that the example site is
flash, is it possible using freeway to create a site which is very
fluid and full frame?
Please excuse my stupidity, I am very new to Freeway and Flash would
be out of the question for me!
… is it possible using freeway to create a site which is very fluid and full frame?
You can approximate some of what the Flash site does. Complex animations will be impossible in Freeway, but fading images in and out and sliding content around is possible with some of the built-in actions. Faking the “full screen” look is possible also but will take some planning and thoughtful use of background color.
There are third party actions that may help also that utilize the capabilities of Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries. You can take a look at http://actionsforge.com and see if something there sounds useful.
I oppologize if the language I am using is confusing but it comes with the territory. As a newbie you have a challenge ahead of you, but the users here will help as much as we can.
