[Pro] Help Creating Flexible Site

Looking for recent tutorial of PRO7 for me to follow thru the actual creation of a flexible site? ((Want to have it on one computer screen, and my work on another and be able to duplicate it in the learning process.

Do have the Esperanto Template and torn it apart hoping to find some understanding. Didn’t work so temporarily I changed a site created for a barber in FWexpress to the narrow 320 on 4 pages… as most viewers are that type user. But I still want to make it a flexible site.

Have downloaded all references I could find but they have me confused. It would help to have a tutorial I can follow step by step with explanations of WHY.

{Using FW5 and 6 have sites up to 27 pages which are very different than the one at this location from FW6…However I canuse it as a getting to know HOW in flexible FT7Pro


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Have you tried this?

http://users.softpress.com/keith/box_model_tutorial/

There are many other resources for this but no definitive step by step tutorials to get an entire site done. The hardest part is to get past the concept of doing a visual page layout - that no longer applies. It’s all boxes within boxes - and everything is percentage based on the window size. You might struggle with the align, width height parameters, which all have to be set just right on each and every element - or the whole thing fails.


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Thanks, Karen. Yes have studied that and much more and studied in detail structure in the flexible template from SP very closely. I can delete the homepage major pass thru graphic, but the ‘box’ in which its in also disappears. so guess I will need to experiment with creating a ‘new’ html insert into which to put an image of different size, etc and see what happens. My desk is litered with enlarged prints of screen blowups of site DETAILS and matching INSPECTOR settings - but some of the FW tutorials are for FWP6 and the inspectors ARE different in 7… so still stumbling. Just make copies of the template, experiment in it and when it doesn’t work, trash it and try again on another one.


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If you click on that box and press Command-B (clear content), you can then use it as a normal HTML box, and import any other content type you may like.

Walter

On Oct 6, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Ann Amber email@hidden wrote:

Thanks, Karen. Yes have studied that and much more and studied in detail structure in the flexible template from SP very closely. I can delete the homepage major pass thru graphic, but the ‘box’ in which its in also disappears. so guess I will need to experiment with creating a ‘new’ html insert into which to put an image of different size, etc and see what happens. My desk is litered with enlarged prints of screen blowups of site DETAILS and matching INSPECTOR settings - but some of the FW tutorials are for FWP6 and the inspectors ARE different in 7… so still stumbling. Just make copies of the template, experiment in it and when it doesn’t work, trash it and try again on another one.


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thanks, walter… that ‘box’ has red dots at the corners, which I assume means it is locked.??? Right? will that clear content work if so?


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Yes. Locking just keeps you from moving the element on screen, it does not lock the content from editing.

Walter

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thanks, walter… that ‘box’ has red dots at the corners, which I assume means it is locked.??? Right? will that clear content work if so?


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Thanks… I will get to it after washing the windows her in california

different query. If I chose to build a site with 35 pages on very different topics where each page layout and content will widely vary…
that seems to be extrenely difficult in Pro7 (to be flexible) as it would take 2 times that in the working setup in FW — in effect 35 x 2 in LENGTH (in the site and master column) ???


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If you have 35 different layouts, and you want to make them responsive, yes, that’s going to be a lot of extra work. If you can simplify your designs a bit, such that there are really only 4 or 5 master pages, and the additional differences from those masters to the individual pages are more on the lines of color or background images, then you can probably make this a lot simpler for yourself. Let the layout stay the same, but re-color individual pages to give them additional difference, in other words.

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Thanks… I will get to it after washing the windows her in california

different query. If I chose to build a site with 35 pages on very different topics where each page layout and content will widely vary…
that seems to be extrenely difficult in Pro7 (to be flexible) as it would take 2 times that in the working setup in FW — in effect 35 x 2 in LENGTH (in the site and master column) ???


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Whew, the window washing took all day…
Thanks Walter… appreciate the alternate. Would be lot easier. Just need to think it out on paper so to say.
(that command B was really appreciated; works as indicated.)
Again Tnx
Ann


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Next … multiple photos describing or illustrating details of actual work in progreess, like at http://mangumandsons.com/challenges.html
that type fixed layout does not seem possible in a flexible site, right?
Photos in drop down sequences one at a time INSTEAD of all visible on the page- would NOT communicate the same process as comparing multiple images ON the Visible page as was done on that site.
Is there an alternate to accomplish that IN a flexible site?


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I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible with some planning.

As Tim mentioned, flexible/inline/responsive layouts require a different way of creative thinking and planning but I have yet to find a fixed layout that can’t be made flexible with some understanding, hard work and trial and error.

Todd

Next … multiple photos describing or illustrating details of actual work in progreess, like athttp://mangumandsons.com/challenges.html
that type fixed layout does not seem possible in a flexible site, right?


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