[Pro] Adding Mootool java in Freeway

Hello,

I am using platform Freeway Pro 5.5. And I am a basic user.

I am looking at designing an horizontal website and I am at the very early stage of the design working out the navigation.
I would like to add in some navigation as follows:

Fixed button advance to the right by a set pixel distance with smooth scroll.
Is there an action that could that ?

Also, I would like to insert a code so that the right arrow produces the same effect, i.e smooth scroll to the right by the same pixel distance.

Finally, is there a way to change the control of the wheel on the mouse so that instead of scroll up and down, it makes the user scroll left to right?

Many thanks for your help,

Dee


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The title is incorrect, it should read,

Adding horizontal navigation to Freeway template.

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On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:46 AM, Deeceel wrote:

Hello,

I am using platform Freeway Pro 5.5. And I am a basic user.

I am looking at designing an horizontal website and I am at the very
early stage of the design working out the navigation.
I would like to add in some navigation as follows:

Fixed button advance to the right by a set pixel distance with
smooth scroll.
Is there an action that could that ?

Carousel will do that, but instead of scrolling the window, it scrolls
an area within the page a fixed distance per click. If you want to
make a really truly wide page with a browser scrollbar sideways, I
don’t know of an Action that will do that for you. (In my experience,
these latter sorts of pages have serious problems, since they only
truly work as designed when the visitor’s window is exactly one width,
and users can set theirs to whatever they want – or their hardware
will support.)

Also, I would like to insert a code so that the right arrow produces
the same effect, i.e smooth scroll to the right by the same pixel
distance.

That wouldn’t be too hard to do, it’s a matter of hooking into the
same observer that manages clicks on the “next” button. It would take
a few minutes’ head-scratching to do.

Finally, is there a way to change the control of the wheel on the
mouse so that instead of scroll up and down, it makes the user
scroll left to right?

This is possible, but kind of iffy usability-wise. The scroll wheel
has a predictable behavior for the user, and it’s not a really great
idea to break that mental model.

Walter

Many thanks for your help,

Dee


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Thank you for your precious input Walter.
I did not know of Carousel, it is a good pointer.

This said I really have in mind an horizontal layout. I don’t think that the width of the page is an issue if the navigation is clear and user friendly. There are quite a few horizontal layout around for photography websites already.

If there is no action for the fixed button advance with set pixel distance, could I reproduce it by inserting an html markup? I am not finding a javascript for the right scroll.

At this page I found some code for navigating vertically by a set distance.

How could I change the code to obtain the same result but horizontally?

Many thanks

Dee


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