Hi, I’m struggling with links becoming underlined when links are added to text in CSS menus. I don’t want this and have unchecked it in the text inspector but it fails to uncheck so i go to style menu and type style and turn underline off in this and it works until it publishes and the underlines reappear? How do i get rid of these for good?
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See if this thread helps clarify
http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/69752
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Hi, Tried this thread and nothing new there. As I said, I have tried to remove underlines on links in all the CSS menus using every method FW allows and still no joy.
This is the same on another site I’m building.
The site in question is
http://www.real-estate-property-for-sale-tuscany.co.uk/index.html
You will see all the underlines everywhere and i need these gone, can anyone help.
I have also uploaded the site FW file to FTP should anyone care to take a look at the guts of this.
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Steve
On 4 May 2010, at 19:04, DeltaDave wrote:
See if this thread helps clarify
http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/69752
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Whoa! Another huge page at 6Mb - you could cut that in half.
Where is your FW file?
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Sorry, I’m new to this and a graphics based upbringing with very little knowledge of the Web side.
I bought into FW pro as I was led to believe that it had much cleaner coding than iweb but was WYSIWYG for graphics folk like me, appears I may have been misled as there seems to me to be a lot more web and html knowledge needed.
The client viewing this new site has already commented on the speed of load, I kinda guessed this was coming.
The site file is uploaded to my .me account and the only way I know to send you this is by a link direct to a personal address, if you know better, please help a web novice?
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Steve
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Whoa! Another huge page at 6Mb - you could cut that in half.
Where is your FW file?
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appears I may have been misled
Not at all - the same rules of image optimisation apply across the board.
In your .me account you can elect to share a file that is in your Public folder. Click on the file name and then on the Share File button and then you can put in the email address of who you want to share the file with.
If you wanted to share it with me you would use info(at)deltadzine.com changing (at) for @
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You can actually elect to share a file in any folder.
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You are right, I have no problem with image optimisation, it’s the rest including and mostly html text where the rules are far from the same as graphics.
I also understand how to send the link from my public file, I just wasn’t sure about the etiquette regarding personal mail address’s or posting this file live to the freeway talk community.
Will forward link to you now.
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Steve
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appears I may have been misled
Not at all - the same rules of image optimisation apply across the board.
In your .me account you can elect to share a file that is in your Public folder. Click on the file name and then on the Share File button and then you can put in the email address of who you want to share the file with.
If you wanted to share it with me you would use info(at)deltadzine.com changing (at) for @
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The image that you have used as a background doorbg.png is nearly 5Mb
As a background it doesn’t need to be transparent (png) instead save it as a jpg and increase the compression. I have just done it and reduced the size to 500k (a tenth) with no loss of quality (especially as a background image) - and you could probably reduce it some more.
That will save you at least 4.5Mb on every page it is used.
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I just wasn’t sure about the etiquette regarding personal mail address’s or posting this file live to the freeway talk community.
I wouldn’t share it with everybody - and certainly remove FTP info from it before doing so!
Remember that if someone here wants to be contactable they will have provided their email address in the ‘People’ section of the site. Email addresses there are only viewable if you are logged in.
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Hi Dave,
I’m learning all the time and this is another great tip.
I have been using the .png’s as I have overlapped slides with drop shadows and the .jpg doesn’t work with that method so I will now in future use your tip for back grounds.
Is there any other gems for me as a photographer trying to use a lot of images at their optimum?
Thanks.
Steve.
PS. Any views on why the underlines won’t go away no matter what I try?
On 14 May 2010, at 17:06, DeltaDave wrote:
The image that you have used as a background doorbg.png is nearly 5Mb
As a background it doesn’t need to be transparent (png) instead save it as a jpg and increase the compression. I have just done it and reduced the size to 500k (a tenth) with no loss of quality (especially as a background image) - and you could probably reduce it some more.
That will save you at least 4.5Mb on every page it is used.
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Remember that you can vastly reduce the size/quality of your images because they will only look as good as the monitor that is showing them - and most of them are pretty s***e
Most of your pics only need to be a couple of hundred k - especially on that site. It is not fine art you are trying to flog! And even if it were folk want to see it in the Flesh before parting with that sort of dough.
They only have to be good enough to generate interest.
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I agree but I’ve been trusting FW to do the conversions and what you see is is what they created, is there a better way?
On the b/ground images I used, I never set them as png’s, is FW doing this as I’ve just looked at the file and can find no way of changing page b/grounds short of optimising in Photoshop?
S
On 14 May 2010, at 17:21, DeltaDave wrote:
Remember that you can vastly reduce the size/quality of your images because they will only look as good as the monitor that is showing them - and most of them are pretty s***e
Most of your pics only need to be a couple of hundred k - especially on that site. It is not fine art you are trying to flog! And even if it were folk want to see it in the Flesh before parting with that sort of dough.
They only have to be good enough to generate interest.
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Background images are untouched by FW - they are what you created them as!
To go back to your underline problem.
Select your CSS Menu container on the House Master page and in the Inspector 2nd tab (paintbrush) go down to the link section. Click once on the underline U next to the Normal link.
Then go and preview one of the pages that uses that Master ie house land
Also as far as image handling in FW you can set general settings in File>Document Setup under the Graphics Tab
There you can set your base image quality - and if you make your jpgs progressive they will load that way rather than all downloading before they appear. This gives the illusion of the page loading faster even if it isn’t.
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On 14 May 2010, at 17:21, DeltaDave wrote:
Most of your pics only need to be a couple of hundred k
Bit generous isn’t it? If I had a picture that was 200Kb I’d be thinking about whether or not I really needed it …
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Beg to differ on this one, I’ve never created a png, all files are from Raw or Tiff imported direct from Aperture via FW using command ‘e’?
Will try the underline you suggest and let you know how I get on?
Thanks once again on the new graphic tab tip!
S.
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Background images are untouched by FW - they are what you created them as!
To go back to your underline problem.
Select your CSS Menu container on the House Master page and in the Inspector 2nd tab (paintbrush) go down to the link section. Click once on the underline U next to the Normal link.
Then go and preview one of the pages that uses that Master ie house land
Also as far as image handling in FW you can set general settings in File>Document Setup under the Graphics Tab
There you can set your base image quality - and if you make your jpgs progressive they will load that way rather than all downloading before they appear. This gives the illusion of the page loading faster even if it isn’t.
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Most of your pics only need to be a couple of hundred k
That was really as a comparison to his 1Mb plus that he has just now rather than a specific target size.
Steve you cannot import a background image in that way Command E - it is done under the Paintbrush icon in the Page inspector by selecting a file which has to be in a web ready format such as png, jpg, gif
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which has to be in a web ready format such as png, jpg, gif
Actually, no longer! Freeway will now let you pick non-web-safe
formats for background images and it will convert them for you. But
you don’t have any say in the matter - I believe it always picks
JPEG, although I didn’t do exhaustive testing.
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there seems to me to be a lot more web and html knowledge needed.
Perhaps a little. But it is for designers rather than coders. The
real difference between iWeb and Freeway is the difference between
template-driven production and free-form page layout ability.
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