I am following the getting started “Freeway Pro 5.5” video. I am using a 16px by 16px background jpg file for my site background. Horizontal: Center, Vertical: Tile (as advised). I set the background color to white. When I view the page in a browser (Safari & Firefox), the site background jpg extends beyond the parameters of my site dimensions (800 by 720), both horizontally and vertically. I’ve turned the background scrolling on and off with no effect. I have even tried using a background jpg the width of my site. It solves the width problem but, it continues below the height of the site. How do I contrain the background design to just the dimensions of my site?
A Page background set in FW will fill the entire browser window - no matter the size.
If you want to set a bg that stays within the FW page (document bounds) itself then you will need to create an HTML element the size of that page and apply the bg to it. (Sending it to back so that it is behind all other items on the page)
The video was a little confusing when the narrator switched to the browser view and it showed his background image contained within his dimensions and the rest of the screen was white. I am aware of CSS container images and now realize that I’ll have to make a large image to match my dimensions and place it underneath everything. I only wish the program allowed me the option to expand the width or depth of a page without having to change to another fixed container image.
I only wish the program allowed me the option to expand the width or depth of a page without having to change to another fixed container image.
It does, as long as you use a tiling background. If you merely send a sized image to the back, then each time you add content to the page, you’ll have to make a new background image. If you use something that is a ‘proper’ background image that tiles, one that you apply as a background using the Inspector as opposed to just dragging it into a box, it will expand with the page. This rules out scenic views unfortunately, as it has to be a small pattern that will repeat logically. If I’m understanding you correctly, of course
I tried that but, unfortunately, the tiling has to be a proper tiled pattern having a fixed width of the page… not, for example, a 16px by 16px image tile which restricts to the width and the vertical of the site page at the same time (such as a stylesheet can do).
I tried that but, unfortunately, the tiling has to be a proper tiled pattern having a fixed width of the page… not, for example, a 16px by 16px image tile which restricts to the width and the vertical of the site page at the same time (such as a stylesheet can do).
Not sure I’m quite with you there Jerry. A 16px square image pattern will tile to fill the object it’s set as the background for, no matter what size it is; that’s the beauty of it, as it always fills the object, no matter how big it gets; the pattern just grows with it. Plus, you can set it to tile in only one direction so, for example, you could have an image like the one David showed you earlier which is the width of your container and only repeats downwards, and so on.
