Shadows... try to understand them...

Question

Ok I've posted a few questions over the past 12 hours, ugh up almost all night playing with iWeb.
I'm making a website for a friend's who owns not only a "biplane rides" business but is also the manager of a circa 1920's grass strip airport (all very cool) I really want it to be "nice"... I'm struggling with the shadow option, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and I'm wondering if its me or the limits of the program.
I've used the shadow option on text and on pictures - with and without frames. However I have line that divides the FAA Nav information (elevation, open to public, FAA identifier, etc) from the body of the text on the page. It's just a single line. I'd like to add a slight shadow to that and the shadow option does not work. Am I doing something wrong or can you NOT put a shadow on shapes?
Another shadow issue - when make a text box and then go to inspector and go to the 6th "tab" on inspector with the square and circle on it... if I pick "stroke" and then line and pick one of the dotted lines to outline a text box (this box is going to feature "special discounts" so I want it highlighted). If I chose the shadow option there as I type it puts a shadow on the text. I don't want that, I want the dotted line around the text box shadowed. Can I do that.
Lastly, I'm using the Darkroom template (the Welcome one) and then trying to customize it some so its not too templatey looking. It has those pictures grouped together in such a way that they all have the same outer border... so when I try to put a shadow around that it does each picture individually (not to mention once in a while I "hit those pix and they move and screw up how difficult it was to line them up). Now that I have them set, can I group the pix together so they are one and then put a shadow around that outer border.
I'm sorry I can't put the site up yet for you to look at, its going to be on Godaddy and its not set up to upload yet (they said 24-48 hours).
Susan

Answer 1

Hello Susan,
susan-kelly wrote:
It's just a single line. I'd like to add a slight shadow to that and the shadow option does not work. Am I doing something wrong or can you NOT put a shadow on shapes?
Yes, you should be able to add shadow to shapes.
I want the dotted line around the text box shadowed.
No, it will add the shadow to the text. Put a rectangular shape over the text box and give the rectangular shape a shadow (it will shadow on all 4 lines, if you don't want that : add a line shape on top of the bottom line of the rectangular and add shadow to the line)
can I group the pix together so they are one and then put a shadow around that outer border.
Grouping : Not that I know in iWeb '08.
Instead of clicking on them individually to select them, drag your mouse over all of them so you select them all without risking to move them.
If 1 picture is overlapping an other (ex. behind the other), shadow will look messy.
A quick way to avoid this is by "masking" the picture that is overlapping.
Kind regards,
Leo
PS : you may want to publish your website to a folder on your computer just for testing with different browser as not all of them understand the command "shadow"