Break - Fireworks is the Bane of my life.
Hours: 4-5
This menu system is absolutely frustrating me up the wall.
I love it - it looks fabulous - but it's a pain to work with when you're in layers.
I stared a long time at the screen wondering what I did wrong - because I did everything that I was meant to.
I made the navigation into seperate html file - one for the bottom and one for the top. I tried cutting and pasting code in and it didn't work - so I did it the 'proper' way, by actually inserting it into the page through dreamweaver - which took an hour or so in itself because the help files are WRONG! And all their short cut keys and "wording" leads you to not where you are suppose to go but ELSEWHERE.
I was trying to modify the pop up menu and it said to hit shift f3 to get to the proper menu. ANd it didn't work. I hit it four times, gave up and went to the trustworthy internet and google:
http://www.gordondesigns.com/mm_menu/
He had similiar if not the same problem as me : which clued me to trying to make the divs around the navigation area bigger - that maybe that was what was hiding the menu and that it was actually there, we just couldn't see it... he had problems with his z-index etc.
PRESTO!
There it was!
In absolutely funny, off-the-wall places, but at least it's there!
(Now I'm having problems with the bottom menu. *sigh*)
How to make Pop-up Menus from Fireworks MX appear in a different frame
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16648
I also found this interesting read - I don't think I'll need it, but definitely will keep it in mind for if I do.
I am not going to worry about the nitty-gritty tidying up parts for now - I think I should get this site up and live and send it around and poke Naomie for content, coz she was suppose to have stuff to me by now! :p And see how it runs. :)
So off to make some mock pages and then having it live! :D
This menu system is absolutely frustrating me up the wall.
I love it - it looks fabulous - but it's a pain to work with when you're in layers.
I stared a long time at the screen wondering what I did wrong - because I did everything that I was meant to.
I made the navigation into seperate html file - one for the bottom and one for the top. I tried cutting and pasting code in and it didn't work - so I did it the 'proper' way, by actually inserting it into the page through dreamweaver - which took an hour or so in itself because the help files are WRONG! And all their short cut keys and "wording" leads you to not where you are suppose to go but ELSEWHERE.
I was trying to modify the pop up menu and it said to hit shift f3 to get to the proper menu. ANd it didn't work. I hit it four times, gave up and went to the trustworthy internet and google:
http://www.gordondesigns.com/mm_menu/
He had similiar if not the same problem as me : which clued me to trying to make the divs around the navigation area bigger - that maybe that was what was hiding the menu and that it was actually there, we just couldn't see it... he had problems with his z-index etc.
PRESTO!
There it was!
In absolutely funny, off-the-wall places, but at least it's there!
(Now I'm having problems with the bottom menu. *sigh*)
How to make Pop-up Menus from Fireworks MX appear in a different frame
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16648
I also found this interesting read - I don't think I'll need it, but definitely will keep it in mind for if I do.
I am not going to worry about the nitty-gritty tidying up parts for now - I think I should get this site up and live and send it around and poke Naomie for content, coz she was suppose to have stuff to me by now! :p And see how it runs. :)
So off to make some mock pages and then having it live! :D
posted by J at 9:12 PM
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