I am about to design my website.
My worries are if I set the page size to say
e.g. 800 x 600 pixels, I don’t have enough space depth wise to take everything that I want to add like listings and lots of product pictures (for a business website), without adding lots of pages therefore can I just specify the width and make the depth much deeper, or do I just specify the width and leave
the depth measurement blank.
Please help and then I can move on and start.
Web pages can grow to any height, and Freeway will let you set your
design page area to any height you need (within reason).
The starting height is a good reminder that many people won’t scroll
down unless the content really interests them, so anything you might
want to say that would whet their appetites for more ought to be
positioned within that “first” part of the page. In newspaper design,
this area is referred to as “above the fold” and it’s the golden
rectangle of important (or at least engaging) content.
Oh, and there are good starting sizes in the new document settings in
Freeway that are what’s left over when Windows + browser chrome eat up
most of the available vertical space. 800 x 600 has a browser-safe
area of about 770 x 390 pixels when all is said and done.
Walter
On Jan 23, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Brian Enness wrote:
I am about to design my website.
My worries are if I set the page size to say
e.g. 800 x 600 pixels, I don’t have enough space depth wise to take
everything that I want to add like listings and lots of product
pictures (for a business website), without adding lots of pages
therefore can I just specify the width and make the depth much
deeper, or do I just specify the width and leave
the depth measurement blank.
Please help and then I can move on and start.
Hi Walter
Thanks very much for your speedy response, and now I have the answer I can start.
Would you also by any chance know how I can add a page background image, like a tile graphic?
Click on the pasteboard (the area outside of the design page area) and
look in the Page Inspector. The second tab across the top (paint
brush, kinda looks like a screwdriver) has the page background options
in it. Pull down the Image picker to Select… and navigate to your
picture. It’s a very good idea to have optimized this image already in
an image editor and saved it in one of the three Web-friendly image
types: JPEG, GIF or PNG.
Walter
On Jan 23, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Brian Enness wrote:
Hi Walter
Thanks very much for your speedy response, and now I have the answer
I can start.
Would you also by any chance know how I can add a page background
image, like a tile graphic?