Hello All - I would like to find out something about SHOWCASE, but I am unable to find any Help or reference to it in the info I have from Freeway. Can anyone help please? My wish is to process a number of gallery pages of of an artist’s paintings which may be easily updated without having to completely reformat and title each painting on each page. My existing website is www.artsofalba.com which was constructed a few years ago with a package which does not provide editing facilities. Keith Dyson
When you draw an element on the page, you get a non-inflow element. The element will be positioned using the “absolute” layout method, meaning a certain dimension from at least two of its ordinal points to the nearest positioned parent will be used to set its location on the page. Each element you draw on the page exists in its own “layer”, as in the multiplane camera used for creating animated cartoons. You can imagine each one as living on its own sheet of glass, and the movements of other elements on the other planes does not affect anything on that element’s plane. This is why you will sometimes see a row of text appearing over or under the next element down the page. Absolute layouts are capable of the most precise alignment, but are fragile when they encounter content that may be displayed differently depending on the browser’s settings or the underlying OS’s feeble impression of typographical layout.
When you have a flashing text cursor inside an HTML box, and you choose Insert / [element type] from the main menu, you will have an inflow element. Inflow elements use their margin and float settings to define their layout in the page. These sorts of elements can respond to their own contents (or that of their peers) growing and shrinking due to browser-side font settings or variable content (as in a CMS). In-flow layouts are otherwise referred to in this list as inline layouts, or sometimes as box-model layouts. When building a layout to be used by a wide range of browsers or platforms, or when you have an indeterminate amount of content to display, and you always want the “footer” to appear right underneath the longest content column.
Hi all… Id like to chime in here because of the problems I have had in the past with missing images in the above tutorial you state to put the 12 images on desktop. I suggest you do not do this. Because once you import photos from desktop into showcase container. FW “remembers” the original location.
If you move the 12 images from desktop later. Your showcase container will show lovely ?? question marks in showcase container one day.
I suggest all photos remain in your project folder and work from there and not the desktop…where we all invariably will move photos from. trying to help
I have also been advised to archive each gallery.