I now understand how to build a full width footer with page align “none”. However, this does not allow me to the place layers. Well it does but the x value is taken from the browser left edge.
Any ideas?
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Am I asking the impossible?
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Yes - indeed you did. The problem is (probably technical incorrect), that the basic page orientation is (without any further settings) is left. Freeway itself isn’t given any orientation with the inline stuff, so both are in that way incompatible. So if you have an inline based paged construction all the other layered items do not have the necessary homebase.
Stretching headers and footers are advanced layout techniques that will mean either eat or not.
I may fail - but that’s what I know.
Cheers
Thomas
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No, but you are out in the weeds, far from the ease of Freeway’s WYSIWYG layout. The reason is that in order for a page to center on the browser, it must have a defined width. If it didn’t, it would stretch to fill the screen, all the time. But if you have a portion of the page that you do want to stretch full width, then you can’t have any width. Catch-22.
What you need to do is create a fully inline layout, and manually define the portions of your page that will be full-width and manually define the fixed-width portions of the page. It’s very easy to do post-hoc; once you have completed your design and are sure that you want to have the page look a certain way. But inline layouts are fiddly at best for designing pages.
I urge you to start by drawing the site you want to see – except for the full-width stripes. Use your imagination for those (and a fixed-width placeholder). Once you like the layout, you can tear it apart and make a full inline layout to replace it.
I have an example document here: FreewayTalk (stunningly similar to the FreewayTalk Web site, even though I sweated that one out in a text editor rather than Freeway). The document may be downloaded here: http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/fwtalk/fwtalk.zip Open that up, click on each element, and note how it’s constructed by looking through the Inspector at each object on the page. It’s a fully nested layout, with each part inside the next like a Matryoshka doll. The outer container is 100% width, and the full-width elements are as well. Other elements are given fixed widths, and then “centered” by setting their horizontal margins to Auto.
It’s not the easy way to design anything, but it is a powerful production technique.
Walter
On Nov 15, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Graham Meigh wrote:
Am I asking the impossible?
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