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This tutorial will teach you how to create various navigation elements in Fireworks
including:
1. Open Fireworks and create a new file 400px x 200px with a white background.
2. Select the Text Tool (T) and choose Verdana, size 11, black, bold and type the
following text on the work area:
3. Open the Frames palette (Shift + F2) and create a duplicate frame by doing one of
the following:
OR
7. Select the slice tool (K) and draw a slice over each area of text.
9. Select the first buttons slice, and then click the round circle in the middle of the
slice.
14. Change back to Original view and click in the grey area to deselect anything that
may be selected.
16. Open the Optimize panel (F6) and choose a setting for your file.
1. Create a new folder in My Documents for your web site called Buttons.
2. Open this new folder and create another folder and call it slices.
6. Click Save.
1. Open Dreamweaver and define a site with your Buttons folder as the root folder.
6. In the dialogue box which opens, check the box “Delete file after insertion”.
8. Click OK
With your Fireworks buttons now in place you can finish building your web page in
Dreamweaver.
3. Change back to the Pointer Tool (V) and select the Rectangle.
4. Add a drop shadow to the button using the Effects menu in the
Properties Inspector.
5. With the button selected, select Modify > Symbol > Convert to Symbol (F8).
6. In the Symbol Properties dialogue box which opens, type button for the name and
select Button for the behaviour.
9. Select the text tool, choose a suitable font and colour and check the centre
alignment button.
12. Select the “Over" tab at the top of the work area.
13. Click the “Copy Up Graphic” at the bottom of the work area.
16. Back on the stage, select the button. (You’ll need to hide the Web layer to do this).
17. Hold down the ALT key, and drag and release the button on stage to create a copy
of it.
18. Repeat this 3 times until you have four copies of the button.
19. Shift select all four buttons and use the Align panel to distribute them horizontally.
20. Select the second button and in the Properties Inspector, change the buttons Text
to “products”.
21. Repeat the previous step for the 2 remaining buttons – Services & Contact Us.
22. You should also rename the slices as we did in the previous tutorial.
23. Click the Fit Canvas button in the Properties Inspector to trim the canvas.
Repeat the same procedure for the previous tutorial to export your buttons for use in
Dreamweaver. You can use the same folders.
You will be using the Bramah site that you created in the previous Dreamweaver tutorial.
2. Select the Text Tool (T) and choose Time New Roman, size 11, colour #DCAF78.
HOME
TEA
COFFEE
GENERAL
OUR SHOP
4.Drag the
Rulers on to
the stage and mark out even spacing between each
block of text.
8. Right-click the button in the middle and select Add Pop-up Menu.
10. Press the Tab key on your keyboard to move to the box under the word Link and
type: tea/history.htm.
11. Press the Tab key twice to add another word underneath HISTORY. (We’re leaving
the Target blank).
IMPORTANT
Note that I am deliberately typing capital letters for the Text name to match the links we
typed on our web page.
However the Link name needs to be typed in small (lowercase) letters as this is the URL of
the page we are linking to. In this case, our web pages are in a folder called tea, hence the
tea/history.htm.
12. Now we set the appearance for our pop-up menu items.
Select #DCAF78 for the Up state Text colour and White for the Cell colour.
13.Click Next.
17. Your TEA text will now have a blue outlined rectangular area over the top of it.
18. Place your mouse over the blue rectangles until the cursor changes to a hand
pointer.
19. Drag the blue rectangles until they are adjacent to the menu items.
20. Press F12 on your keyboard to test the Pop-up Menu in a browser.
REPEAT STEPS 7 to 21 for the remaining menu items using the information below. You will
notice that you will not need to re-enter the colour & font information – this will be the
same in the Pop-up Menu Editor for each remaining menu item.
22. Trim the canvas and use the Optimise panel before exporting.
23. Repeat the same procedure for the previous tutorial to export your buttons for use
in Dreamweaver.
Select File > Export and navigate to your Bramah folder to save your file in.
24. Name the file menu.htm and create a slices folder for the slices.
With your Fireworks menu complete, you can finish building your web page in
Dreamweaver.
1. Open Dreamweaver and define a new site selecting the Bramah folder as your root
folder.
3. Click inside the cell you want to place the menu in.