Can you DEBUG Fireworks files?

Question

I've created a flyout menu using Fireworks. When I "test" the
flyout from Fireworks it appears to work fine - all levels of the
menu working as I had designed. I integrated the nav menu into my
Dreamweaver template for a client's website and FTP'd the results
to the test site.
Unfortunately, once up on the website, the menu doesn't work
as expected. The first level menu structure works (on mouseover the
2nd level menu's "flyout") - but the 3rd level menu's do not work
at all. I also find that after navigating away from index.html the
2nd level menus stop working!
I'm trying to find out how to debug the entire process to see
why Fireworks won't integrate properly with the Dreamweaver
template I integrated the Fireworks file into. If anyone has any
ideas I'd appreciate a shout...
The website can be found at:
http://www.illinoiscccs.org/web/ssl/index.html
if anyone would like to see the problematic site...
Russ Foszcz

Answer 1

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Originally posted by:
r.foszcz
I've created a flyout menu using Fireworks. When I "test" the
flyout from Fireworks it appears to work fine - all levels of the
menu working as I had designed. I integrated the nav menu into my
Dreamweaver template for a client's website and FTP'd the results
to the test site.
Unfortunately, once up on the website, the menu doesn't work
as expected. The first level menu structure works (on mouseover the
2nd level menu's "flyout") - but the 3rd level menu's do not work
at all. I also find that after navigating away from index.html the
2nd level menus stop working!
I'm trying to find out how to debug the entire process to see
why Fireworks won't integrate properly with the Dreamweaver
template I integrated the Fireworks file into. If anyone has any
ideas I'd appreciate a shout...
The website can be found at:
http://www.illinoiscccs.org/web/ssl/index.html
if anyone would like to see the problematic site...
Russ Foszcz
Russ,
Lots of people post because they have trouble with Fireworks
menus. Usually, these people want a magic fix or are willing to
spend days in the belief that it "just has to work, somehow!" (For
example, this thread:
Help
with Rollovers and Hotspots for Drop Down Webpage Menu...)
Fireworks is primarily a graphics application. What you're
doing is making code. The best environment for that is a coding
environment. You should build menus in Dreamweaver. That said,
there are professional plug-ins to Dreamweaver that will make the
job of building menus easier as well as very robust.
Here are two sites that have menu plug-ins for Dreamweaver:
Pluginlab
Limited
Project Seven
The Project Seven menus are regularly recommended, but I have
no personal experience with either of them.
Good luck!