Need New Tricks for a New (Old) Guy

I just bought FWPro 5 and my old way of doing things doesn’t seem to work here,…

I would create an image (with a roll over state as the second image) in Adobe LiveMotion, slice it in imageready or photoshop, export as images and html and open in GoLive, do the roll overs and use that that image w/ roll overs as a master page.

I can’t figure out how to accomplish the same results with FWPro. That is, import a sliced image inside a table.

Can i maybe make an image w/ menu bar and place no text in the image, then add text boxes for each link with text roll overs? Can you set a text roll over to add a style to the roll over, like drop shadow?


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Sometime around 1/5/08 (at 18:22 -0400) StephenT said:

I would create an image (with a roll over state as the second image)
in Adobe LiveMotion, slice it in imageready or photoshop, export as
images and html and open in GoLive, do the roll overs and use that
that image w/ roll overs as a master page.

Try this instead:

a)
Create your two images - the main and the rollover one - and save
them as TIFFs, PSDs (native photoshop documents) or PNGs at millions
of colours.

b)
Make sure the CSS button is NOT blue/highlighted.

c)
Import each into boxes, draw new graphic boxes where you want the
slice elements to be, and use the Inspector palette to uncheck the
Combine Graphics option. This will make these slice things up in the
published output.

d)
Apply the Rollover action and use the Actions palette to set up the
rollover show/hide behaviour for each one.

e)
Apply whatever links you want as well, then preview - you’re done!

Two key advantages to note:

  1. No need to create web-optimised graphics
  2. No need to slice graphics beforehand

k


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One more:

On May 1, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Keith Martin wrote:

Two key advantages to note:

  1. No need to create web-optimised graphics
  2. No need to slice graphics beforehand
  1. You can move the slices any time you want to, without re-slicing
    the image.

Walter


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Thanks! so good so far but,…

I’m having trouble finding this option for rollovers, I don’t find any show and hide labels.

d) Apply the Rollover action and use the Actions palette to set up the rollover show/hide behaviour for each one.


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Have you applied the action?

Unless you do that properly you wont get to see the details in the action palette.

Window>Actions

Then when you have the object with the action applied selected you will see the details here.

Have you looked at the FW tutorial at:

http://softpress.com/kb/article.php?id=508

David


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