Draw an HTML box on the page somewhere. While it is selected (8
handles showing) pull down the Item / Actions menu from the main menu.
On my computer, it is the very first option at the top of the list.
Now inside this HTML box, enter a bulleted list of your top-level
navigation options:
- home
- products
- service
- contact us
You don’t have to link them up yet, and you especially don’t want to
style them very much at all. If you haven’t made a list in Freeway
before, it’s very easy, but a little different than most other Web
tools. First, enter your list items as individual one or two word
paragraphs. Type a word or words, press return, repeat until you’re
done. Next, highlight all of the text. Finally, in the Inspector, look
in the left-most tab at the very bottom of the Inspector. If the List
segment is closed, click on it to open it, then click the right arrow
to indent your text and change it from paragraphs to list items.
Now, to make your sub-menu options, click at the end of the products
list item (for example) and press return. Enter widgets or salsa or
oven mitts, or better, all three, with a return after each. You should
end up with this meaningless jumble:
- home
- products
- widgets
- salsa
- oven mitts
- service
- contact us
Now select widgets, salsa, and oven mitts, and press the right arrow
button in the Inspector again to indent to the second level.
- home
- products
- service
- contact us
Repeat for any other main menu elements that have children. Now, if
you have already applied the CSS Menus Action to the HTML box
containing this list, if you click away on the pasteboard or another
object, the list will roll up and become your menu. It’s quite
magical. When you click into the HTML box to edit the list, the whole
thing spills out so you can see the hierarchy. But when you click
away, the Action formats the list into a proper horizontal menu with
drop-down submenus.
Walter
On Apr 1, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Ian wrote:
can someone please help me ?
i have spent about an hour trying to find something called “CSS
Actions”
i watched a tutorial which is in the tutorials section that shows
how to do it but the “CSS Menus” action that it requires is just NOT
anywhere to be found … i tried to add it from the Window / Actions
palette using the + sign but it isn’t in there and I cannot finf it
anywhere can someone please help…
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