just want a rectangular border around page

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I have just finished making some changes to my site. Now all I want to do is put a thin 1px boarder around each page. Yes I know there is an action for cool looking curved boarders but it seems a bit complicated. I’ve tried just puting a html box around my master page with no background and border but that will not allow me to access links. Is there an easier way around this issue without having to start building from scratch. It would be great if I could treat it as a layer and put it in the back - but then this isn’t photoshop.

Hugh

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Sometime around 3/5/08 (at 19:09 -0400) hsakols said:

It would be great if I could treat it as a layer and put it in the back

Hmm. Why don’t you try sending it to the back…?

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I’ve tried sending the html box to the back. Now I can access the links in my horizontal banner but the box still blocks my vertical links below the the banner.

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Sometime around 4/5/08 (at 09:58 -0400) hsakols said:

I’ve tried sending the html box to the back. Now I can access the
links in my horizontal banner but the box still blocks my vertical
links below the the banner.

Rather than try to describe it in more detail, could you give us a
URL (including the http:// part) of where we could see this problem?
That will almost certainly be the best way to get to the bottom of
what’s happening now and then to what you want.

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I have posted the changes. Notice the only links that work on the top horizontal banner. Of course if I remove the html border all the links work.

www.yosemitecollection.com

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Sometime around 4/5/08 (at 12:35 -0400) hsakols said:

www.yosemitecollection.com

Forgive my pedantry, but… http://www.yosemitecollection.com - so
that everyone, not just those with over-eager mail clients, sees
this as a link. :slight_smile:

Anyway, I have a couple of comments. First of all, the reason that
some links aren’t accessible is because that large HTML box is a
layered item, and the boxes that contain those links aren’t. Layered
items always sit above non-layered items, so to fix this quickly
you could either make the large HTML box unlayered or make the link
boxes layered. See the Inspector palette for this.

Second comment - this effect would be rather more easily achieved if
you did it with a simple graphic. In any graphics program, make a
graphic that is very wide and not very tall - I suggest 2000 x 50
pixels - and has vertical lines spaced as with your page border
lines, placed centrally in this wide graphic.

You can do this in Photoshop - or do it in Freeway itself…

Making the graphic in Freeway is done by simply drawing out a graphic
box that is as wide as possible and 50 pixels tall.
Fill it with gray, make two 1-pixel-wide boxes that are each filled
with a darker gray, and position them centrally on the wide graphic,
spaced to the width of your page border effect.
Select the graphics, choose File > Export, and export the selection
as a GIF. (IMPORTANT: Remember to put “.gif” at the end of the file
name!)

Use this as your page background graphic (drop onto the page WITH the
Shift key pressed, or use the Inspector palette to apply to the page
as a background image.

Use the Inspector palette to set the image to be horizontally
centered and vertically tiled. Then set the page’s alignment to
Center. You’re done.

This page background method means you never have to worry about
having that item hanging around and being shifted accidentally, and
it can never slip in front of any of your menus, links, images or
anything else.

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Thanks so much! It worked. I appreciate you spending the time explaining all this to me.

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Thanks so much! It worked.

:slight_smile:

I’m glad it worked, and I’m glad we’ve helped you understand it.

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