User manual MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8-USING FIREWORKS

[. . . ] Using Fireworks Trademarks 1 Step RoboPDF, ActiveEdit, ActiveTest, Authorware, Blue Sky Software, Blue Sky, Breeze, Breezo, Captivate, Central, ColdFusion, Contribute, Database Explorer, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FlashCast, FlashHelp, Flash Lite, FlashPaper, Flash Video Encoder, Flex, Flex Builder, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JRun, MacRecorder, Macromedia, MXML, RoboEngine, RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboPDF, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, SoundEdit, Studio MX, UltraDev, and WebHelp are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. [. . . ] For example, http://www. macromedia. com/support/fireworks is the absolute URL for the Macromedia Fireworks Support web page. Absolute URLs remain accurate regardless of the location of the source document, but they do not link correctly if the target document is moved. Relative URLs are relative to the folder containing the source document. These examples show the navigation syntax of relative URLs: file. htm links to a file located in the same folder as the source document. . . /. . /file. htm links to a file located in the folder two levels above the folder containing the source document. htmldocs/file. htm links to a file located in a folder named htmldocs, which is in the folder containing the source document. Relative URLs are usually the simplest ones to use for links to files that will always remain in the same folder as the current document. Importing and exporting URLs If the URL panel contains URLs that you want to use again in other Fireworks documents, you can export them for later use. You can then easily import them into any of your other Fireworks documents for easy access. You can also import all URLs referenced in any existing HTML document. To export URLs: 1. All URLs in this file are imported. Working with URLs 249 250 Chapter 10: Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs CHAPTER 11 Slices, Rollovers, and Hotspots Slices are the basic building blocks for creating interactivity in Macromedia Fireworks 8. Slices are web objects--they exist not as images, but ultimately as HTML code. You can view, select, and rename them through the Web Layer in the Layers panel. This chapter discusses the concepts central to slicing and gives procedures for using slices to incorporate interactivity into your web pages. Using the drag-and-drop rollover method of attaching interactivity to slices, you can quickly create rollover and swap-image effects in the workspace. You can view the assigned behaviors in the Behaviors panel and create more complex interactions using this panel. You can also incorporate interactivity into your web pages with hotspots. Hotspots are used to create an image map, which is HTML code that defines a hot region in an HTML document. These regions do not necessarily link anywhere; they could just trigger a behavior or define alternate text. Hotspots can also receive mouse events, allowing JavaScript behaviors to be acted on in slices. This chapter contains the following topics: Creating and editing slices . 275 11 251 Creating and editing slices Slicing cuts up a Fireworks document into smaller pieces and exports each piece as a separate file. Upon export, Fireworks also creates an HTML file containing table code to reassemble the graphic in a browser. Slicing cuts a document into multiple pieces, which are exported as separate files. Slicing an image has at least three major advantages: Optimizing One challenge of web graphic design is ensuring that images download quickly without sacrificing quality. [. . . ] This is because many users don't have access to all files if they are on multiuser systems. Users with administrator-level access can customize features for all users by modifying the master configuration files in the Fireworks application folder. To save a master configuration setting for all users: Save or drag a copy of the file into the appropriate location in the Fireworks application folder. Location of the Fireworks preferences file Fireworks preferences are stored in a file named Fireworks 8 Preferences. txt (Windows) or Fireworks 8 Preferences (Macintosh). In Windows, preferences are in your user-specific Fireworks configuration folder. For more information about locating this folder, see "About user configuration files" on page 452. 452 Chapter 17: Preferences and Keyboard Shortcuts On the Macintosh, preferences are in the Library/Preferences folder in your user folder. [. . . ]