The problem I am having is that my footer area, with my contact details and the twitter feed, are currently sat in the same div as the main content area in the middle, so that when the size of the content area grows, then the footer will drop down to accommodate it.
However, because of this, whenever I change any content in the main content area, this breaks the link with the master page, so when I change anything in the footer, it won’t update.
Is there any way that I can set up the page so that I have a header div, content div and footer div that will all move together when the content area grows or shrinks with the page and also allows me to keep the header and footer linked with the master if I change the content area?
I have looked at using the Relative Page Layout Action, but this seems to help the divs move if the text size is increase or decreased … but not if the actual content in the middle/content div is made longer.
In that thread there is a lot of discussion about the BoxModel and not using master pages - can someone give a brief explanation of this for the newbies amongst us?
Box-model, or “inline”, is just another method of setting up webpages in Freeway. The advantage of this set-up is that the website will have the ability to automatically “grow” with the content.
To do this, instead of just sketching in the HTML and graphic boxes on the page, you double-click on the page itself and chose “HTML item” from the inset menu. Then you double-click inside of that and insert anything you need from the insert menu as well.
It operates just like text in an HTML item. You can insert what you need where you need it by clicking and looking for the blinking pipe. Then you can align the items and define padding in the inspector palette.
The issue with masters is because the child item that are inserted using this method can’t be edited via those master pages.
