Using the Trial version of FW Pro, I can’t find a way to add a simple reflection to any of my images.
Also, is there really only the 1 step of Undo (cmd + z)?
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Hi, yes there is only level of undo and by the looks of it the long-running campaign to have more is falling on deaf ears. I suspect that rather than the makers of FW ignoring the request, it is because the architecture that FW is built upon makes it more difficult than its worth - but, just a guess, not actual fact so I might be corrected. Just spam cmd+c at key point in your work and use the “revert to saved” command to undo multiple steps at once - its all you got!
Regarding reflected images, with all due respect, it sounds like you are trying to do an image editing job in web design software - which is not a good idea. There are numerous ways in which you can kind of achieve this with browser based coding (or with server scripting) but really it is massive over-engineering IMHO unless you have a specific reason to do it on the fly. In other words - do it in photoshop (or whatever you use).
If you absolutely must use FW then duplicate the image (so you have 2 copies 1 under the other) and right click on it and choose transform where you can mirror it/flip it etc to get a crude reflection - how’s that looking? Yeah, it looks crappy because you want a more sophisticated fade or a gradient dont you? Thought so… so, back to plan A: use photoshop 
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Or use some CSS for the effect
http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/reflect_markup.html
Bear in mind that Browser support is limited so for the most reliable cross browser method use graphics.
David
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On 25 Apr 2013, 11:37 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
Or use some CSS for the effect
http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/reflect_markup.html
Bear in mind that Browser support is limited so for the most reliable cross browser method use graphics.
David
Dude, I love watching you work your CSS magic. I know you’ve told me this before, but where would you insert that code in FWP?
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Thanks for the (very) quick replies.
I’m amazed - I think that every application I’ve ever used on the Mac and every programme I’ve ever used on a PC have multiple Undo steps. It makes it very tedious to keep saving in order to create a restore point and makes me think too hard about whether what I’m about to do will be OK.
I’m also trialling another web-design app from the MAS, which appears to blow Freeway Pro into the weeds. It has multiple Undo steps and offers a simple image reflection option.
The latest version of FW Pro is £104.99, this alternative is a massive 90 quid less - at just £13.99!
I’ll keep trialling both for now…
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Brian, what matters so much more than what seems to fulfil your immediate
need right now is what the program offers in the long run - trust me, look
at what people who have been doing this for years use and you can save
yourself a lot of time money and frustration. There are hundreds of apps
out there which basically allow you to populate some sexy-looking templates
and get an instant website online and that’s great but make sure that you
can modify every single aspect of that in the future, that its code is
clear and it doesn’t have divitus and you are not tied to modifying its
templates.
I’ve been designing websites since the late nineties and even though I can
hand code I simply do not enjoy it (its slow and requires more thought that
I often want to give it) and if I can get a wysiwyg to code for me in a
readable and reliable way I will. Despite what you will hear “coders” say
in public, in private they are almost all using Dreamweaver at least 50% of
the time. DW is a fab app and I have used it since its very earliest
version but in my opinion is is now a Frankenstein’s monster of an app with
far far too much of a “oh lets include this too” mentality to the point
that it is downright confusing even if you know it well - and that negates
the point if a wysiwyg. The major downside of almost all wysiwyg apps is
that they produce vile spaghetti code that will give you a migraine if you
try and read it or modify it - I’ve tried dozens of wysiwyg apps over the
years and 99% are straight in the trashcan for various reasons but mostly
due to loss of control of your code and your work. IMHO only Dreamweaver
and Freeway go half way to producing clear, valid code and I wouldn’t waste
my time with any other wysiwyg for the mac (netobjects fusion seems to be
an equivalent of FW for the PC but I havent used a PC in a few years -
Vista turned me to Mac like so many others).
FW is unique in that it is deceptively simple - but then honestly html and
css is too - and should be. When you learn to use it properly (AKA inline
method) you can knock out code that is not immediately recognisable as
machine generated - in fact it’s quite good. I get that one level of undo
is annoying, but it is precisely the undo feature that gets wysiwyg
generated sites into an unholy mess code wise in the first place since what
seems seems like a simple few points and clicks to you can have massive
implications in the code - DW has solved this by reducing its wysiwyg
capabilities iver the years.
FW is 10 times faster than DW, costs a third as much and allows you to
effectively draw out your layout - something DW did away with a few version
back (unless you get Flexi-Layouts for DW from
http://www.extendstudio.comwhich truly makes DW awesome again and I
know so many pro coders using it
right now).
On 26 April 2013 08:48, Brian Turner email@hidden wrote:
Thanks for the (very) quick replies.
I’m amazed - I think that every application I’ve ever used on the Mac and
every programme I’ve ever used on a PC have multiple Undo steps. It makes
it very tedious to keep saving in order to create a restore point and makes
me think too hard about whether what I’m about to do will be OK.I’m also trialling another web-design app from the MAS, which appears to
blow Freeway Pro into the weeds. It has multiple Undo steps and offers a
simple image reflection option.
The latest version of FW Pro is £104.99, this alternative is a massive 90
quid less - at just £13.99!I’ll keep trialling both for now…
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where would you insert that code in FWP?
That example uses Page>Html Markup with the following in the Before section
<style type="text/css">
.reflector { color:#000; -webkit-box-reflect:below 0px -webkit-gradient(linear, center top, center bottom, from(transparent), color-stop(40%, transparent), to(rgba(255,255,255,0.7))); }
</style>
Then select the graphic or the html container and use Item>Extended and add the following new name/value pair under the Div tab.
name:class
value:reflector
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