Hi Dave,
Sadly I don’t have anywhere I can up load the few pages I have done. The rollovers work on the page but not in the header where they stick on the ‘click’ graphic. The page I am using was created after I read this from Joe Billlings:
Quote: "Basically you need to use inflow items to create the main sections of the site, the header, the body and the footer. These should all be set to float left and have 100% width on a page with no alignement (meaning the page is always the width of the browser window). You want these items to have no height (so they grow vertically when the content inside them gets bigger) so, in order to stop the item shrinking to 0px when you remove the height, apply the Modify Height Action (which is part of the Relative Page Layout suite) to them and set the Height option to Undefined. Make the actual height of the item the height you want it to be (it will get trickier to do this later on so make a good guess now).
Inside each of these items you need another inflow item that has a specific width (the width you want your centered content to be) and margins set to Auto. Automatic margins on fixed width items will center themselves in their parent items, so in this case, the 100% width inflow items. Apply the Modify Height Action to these new items and change the Height option to Minimum. (THIS IS WHAT FORMS MY MY HEADER SECTION) Doing this means that the items won’t shrink to fit their content, instead they will remain at a minimum size and grow further if they need to.
Apply the Relative Page Layout Action to the page or Site Folder.
Add your regular layer items into each section, you don’t need to worry about making these inflow, just use regular draggable items - they will all be consumed by the RPL Action when you publish.
That’s it - though there are some things to note:
Changing the height of your main sections (header, body, footer) requires changing the physical height of the highest level items first (the inflow items from the first step) and then the second level items. If you try and drag the second level items they will be restricted by the first level items and nothing will happen. To get access to the first level items, either use command-option click to cycle through stacked items, or select the items in the Site panel after choosing “Show Items” from the menu at the bottom of the Site panel (or clicking the word Site at the top of the Site panel.
Don’t use Master pages for content using inflow items - you’ll just find you lose content when you do a reapply master, or Use Master Settings/Content. Only use the Master for the basic structure of header, body, footer and the centered inflow item within each of these sections. "
So I am using this page and pasting rollovers from a blank page where they work and then they don’t. And if I move them closer up the heiracrchy the whole FW crashes. Sorry I can’t be clearer.
Is this the best way to set up? I have already done half of a 20 page site but felt I needed to have the html and graphics on an ordered structured page and not ad hoc - that’s why I followed Joe’s advice from a thread.
I suppose I am looking for decent info on creating rollovers with 3 images (one for normal, mouse and click) which then activate a transitional effect and a blind slides down to reveal a menu with links - all in css layers - not box.
Any ideas? Sorry so vague.
al
(also glasgow)
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