Sometime around 17/1/08 (at 05:01 -0500) Mr worm said:
I have tried saving the image as a PNG as it has a drop shadow in
photoshop, when I get the graphic file it defaults to its size
200x200 etc.
Just an aside: as you’re using Freeway Pro you can import native
Photoshop (.psd) documents; you don’t have to save as PNG in order to
import and use transparency.
The poloraid is tilted within this 200x200 box I want to map the
image (polaroid) so that when the (polaroid) is rolled over NOT the
200x200 box the rollover not only works! But will also have a link
applied to it
If your graphics are combining into one composite image when
published, then the rollover code can only apply to the whole thing.
This is because JavaScript rollovers simply replace one image with
another; they can’t replace part of an image.
One approach to doing what you want is to slice your image into parts
that are shown as one whole in the web page but can be treated as
individual parts by rollover code.
Now, when stated this way it probably sounds like you need to use the
laborious and slightly fragile and convoluted techniques familiar to
users of Fireworks/ImageReady/etc and Dreamweaver. Fear not! All you
need to do in Freeway is UNCHECK the ‘Combine Graphics’ checkbox for
a selected graphic, and that shape will be generated as a sliced
graphic element, cut along the object’s rectangular boundaries.
(NOTE: for rotated objects this will be the outer horizontal/vertical
boundaries of the item.)
So you can either ‘uncombine’ the object itself, or you can place
another graphic box on top of the stack - one with nothing in it is
fine - and uncombine that. Doing this means you can adjust the
boundaries of the slice area without adjusting the scale or crop of
any visible image object.
Of course, this does require that the various graphic items are all
NOT layered; they must either be unlayered loose on the page or must
be unlayered together within a layered group container. Otherwise
they each sit in their own self-contained layer and don’t fraternise
with other items in any way.
Apply your link and the Rollover action to the slice item and you
should be done.
when I try this with a graphic item the alt text name appears once
FTP’d??? any help?
Odd. THat happens when the graphic isn’t available where the web page
code says it is. If Freeway was used to upload the site that really
shouldn’t happen. Did you use a different tool to upload your site?
http://www.chriswalmsley.co.uk/clients/ea
Just a small tip… if you put http:// in from of your URLs they will
always be clickable wherever they are shown. In email clients such as
Eudora, which are more technically precise and less presumptuous than
some, a protocol-less string of text won’t be made into a hyperlink.
k
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