Re: Fw: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and mouseovers

If you use it correctly, Fireworks produces good code for this.  There's a 
tutorial in the fireworks help on how to do it.

Broadly, you do this:

(a) create the normal buttons - all of them
(b) create the "down" buttons - all of them - in a new frame.
(c) slice the buttons up using the slice tool.
(d) as you create each slice, apply the slice properties and the links to 
the other pages.
(e) as you create each slice, apply the behavours - simple rollover in this 
case
(f) save.
(g) export the slices - use either dreamweaver format if you're going to 
bring the result into dreamweaver (this means the comments etc in the code 
have comment hooks that dreamweaver is looking for - not proprietary html 
code) or use html format if you're going to use any other editor.

Bingo you're done.

And in fireworks your buttons all remain editable, so you can create new 
ones in a hurry or change the text on the buttons etc.

If you need more detailed info, I'll try to find a tutorial on the web 
somewhere for you, or write the procedures out in detail.  But I do rollover 
navigation bars in about 10 minutes more than actually creating the images.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>From: "fiore" <fiore(at)futura.net>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Fw: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and mouseovers
>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:38:51 -0600
>
>Thought I had mentioned... I have version 2 of both Dreamweaver and
>Fireworks...  sorry for any confusion!
>
>
>Jennifer Calas
>F&D Productions
>fiore(at)futura.net
>----- Original Message -----
>From: fiore <fiore(at)futura.net>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:24 PM
>Subject: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and mouseovers
>
>
> > Well, didn't go through the first time... joy of joys, it never does 
>when
> > it's important... *sigh*  I apologize for the resend.
> >
> >
> > Greets all!
> >
> > I don't know a whole lot about javascripting, and was hoping that
> > Dreamweaver and Fireworks were going to be the answer to my prayers, but
> > instead they're making me cuss more than ever. ;-)
> >
> > I'm doing a site with a navigation graphic, is spliced and set in a 
>table.
> > Each mouseover is in its own TD, and is supposed to link to another 
>page.
> > #1 -- I've created my button images (made 'em in Photoshop), but can't
> > figure out how to use premade images from Fireworks' tutorial, so that
>it'll
> > write the javascript for me.
> >
> > #2 -- when I gave up on Fireworks and tried to use Dreamweaver, I got 
>the
> > first mouseover to work, but each successive mouseover throws an error.  
>I
> > suspect this is because the browser doesn't like having individual
> > javascripts for each TD, and I'm guessing that even if I could get
>Fireworks
> > to work right, I'd still have the same problem.
> >
> > What is the best way to do a javascript for a navigational bar using
> > Fireworks and/or Dreamweaver?
> >
> > here's the link:
> >
> > http://www.fastdata.net/~fiore/test.html
> >
> > As you will notice, the "Home" link works just beautifully... but when 
>you
> > put the cursor over "Pricing & Services", it throws an error.
> >
> > Thanks for any and all help!
> >
> > Jennifer Calas
> > F&D Productions
> > fiore(at)futura.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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