Rollover help in site design

Question

Newbie to fireworks here. I m more used to PS and exporting
to image ready for rollover effects.
I generally design my entire site page and export to IR, than
add the frames to show the rollover effects and export. Seems
simple enough. However, I cant for the life of me figure out how to
do this in Fireworks.
Ive tried copying my entire page layout from frame 1 to frame
2 but keep getting lost.
I tried the simple rollover tutorial, but thats only good if
your just creating a rollover button. What if I want to layout
entire page and add rollovers within page? How is this achieved?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

What HTML authoring are you using?
Think about this -
When you use a graphics editor to write your HTML, the editor
assumes that
EVERY PAGE will have the same shape. It then proceeds to
write HTML that
EXACTLY reproduces the shape of the layout you have built,
but at the price
of extreme rigidity of the resulting HTML (the tables are
littered with col-
and rowspans), which means that if your page shape changes at
all (i.e., you
add more content on one page, or larger graphics on another
page), the whole
layout breaks down.
Based on my observations of posts on the DW forum over the
past 5 years and
more, fully 30% of the posts there can be attributed to this
single issue -
using wizards to write your HTML (even DW's Layout mode is
the same).
Now - adding interactivity in FW is not exactly the same
thing, but it's a
bad habit that needs to be broken (in my opinion). Use FW to
do what it
does exceptionally well - create graphics for the web. Use
your HTML
authoring for what it most likely also does exceptionally
well - create HTML
pages. Don't get the two mixed up....
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"dellvostro" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Newbie to fireworks here. I m more used to PS and
exporting to image ready
> for
> rollover effects.
> I generally design my entire site page and export to IR,
than add the
> frames
> to show the rollover effects and export. Seems simple
enough. However, I
> cant
> for the life of me figure out how to do this in
Fireworks.
> Ive tried copying my entire page layout from frame 1 to
frame 2 but keep
> getting lost.
> I tried the simple rollover tutorial, but thats only
good if your just
> creating a rollover button. What if I want to layout
entire page and add
> rollovers within page? How is this achieved? Any help is
appreciated.
> Thanks.
>