I have made a contact form using the method supplied by Freeway - it works.
However, I want to add a graphic to sit underneath the form - It all looks ok on the screen as I build it but neither in preview or uploaded does it display the form - the graphic shows.
I am relatively new to Freeway and this is my first success with forms - would like to get the graphic to work with the form.
It’s a bit difficult to diagnose without seeing how you’ve created / placed the graphic. Could you post a screen grab of your offending page in Freeway and I’ll see what I can do?
Is the graphic part of the form? (inserted into the same HTML box as a graphic, or something simply placed below the form? Do you have CSS turned on (the blue circle in the toolbar)?
In addition to posting a sample of what you have, can you please also post
an example of what you want to achieve? This helps any who are willing to
help visualize a solution for you.
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Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Neil email@hidden wrote:
Hi,
It’s a bit difficult to diagnose without seeing how you’ve created /
placed the graphic. Could you post a screen grab of your offending page in
Freeway and I’ll see what I can do?
Is the graphic part of the form? (inserted into the same HTML box as a
graphic, or something simply placed below the form? Do you have CSS turned
on (the blue circle in the toolbar)?
I was going to write to say that you should apply the image as a background image to the table, but then I double-checked, and Freeway won’t let you do that. Seems to be a clear omission in the Table Inspector – the entire Style tab is missing!
Here’s the long-hand way to do what you want.
Make a proper background image in Photoshop or another image editor. It should be sized a fair bit wider and taller than your table, to account for differences of browser rendering, and it should be saved as a low or medium quality JPEG at 72 ppi.
In your Styles palette, click on the cog icon at the top-right and choose New Style…
Name the style something useful, like formTable or something like that. From the Character (+) picker, choose Background Image, and select your image that you made in step 1. Set the repeat to no, although that’s probably not needed if you sized it correctly. Okay out of your style editor.
In the design view, click once on the table, so all of its outer handles are showing (don’t select a single table, in other words). Click once on your style name in the Styles palette list. The style name should highlight to indicate it has been applied to the table.
You will not see anything different in the design view at this time, but if you preview, the background image will show correctly.
It’s important to note that background images are entirely different things than simply “Draw a graphic box, select an image, and send to back.” That’s a foreground image, a part of your layout, and it’s a separate element that isn’t pinned to the element you want to add a background to.
Walter
On Jun 15, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Jeff Duncan wrote:
I have made a contact form using the method supplied by Freeway - it works.
However, I want to add a graphic to sit underneath the form - It all looks ok on the screen as I build it but neither in preview or uploaded does it display the form - the graphic shows.
I am relatively new to Freeway and this is my first success with forms - would like to get the graphic to work with the form.
I am trying waltd’s solution and with some fine tuning it might do the trick - one further question if I may - can I turn the submit button background to transparent?
I am trying everyone but not finding a way - is it possible?
It should. Preview is just a WebKit view of your site folder, equivalent to using Preview in Browser with Safari. How are you uploading? Are you using Freeway’s built-in FTP, or a third-party tool?
If you can’t see it on your server, try a couple of things. First, try holding down the Control key, which exposes the hidden Publish Everything option in the File menu, after you do that, upload again, and see if the image shows up. If that doesn’t work, try adding ?234 (or any similar nonsense after a question mark) to the end of the URL to force any cache to be refreshed.
If you still don’t see it, please post a link so I can look at the actual HTML/CSS that Freeway has published.
Walter
On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Jeff Duncan wrote:
In preview mode before upload the graphic shows - upload it doesn’t
You can make a submit button as a graphic using PNG-24 compression, import it as pass-through, and then use Freeway’s image inspector to set it to be a submit button. Be sure to name it something sensible so your form handler will recognize it.
Walter
On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Duncan wrote:
Ok - I reloaded to a new directory and yes it shows - sorry - not sure what was going on there!?
