Special Page Elements - Adobe GOLIVE CS2 User Manual

Special page elements

To add comments to a page
As you lay out content on your web pages, you can add comments about the design. Comments appear only in
GoLive (in the Comment Inspector and the source code) or other HTML editors and do not appear on the pages in
web browsers. You can also add comments to the head sections of pages.
Drag the Comment icon from the Basic set in the objects toolbox to the desired location in the page, or double­
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click the Comment icon to place it at the insertion point.
A symbol appears in the text to indicate the location of the comment.
2 In the Comment Inspector, type your comment.
See also
"Head section elements" on page 164
To add date and time stamps
You can display the date and time that you saved the page; for example, to tell your viewers when you last updated
the page. GoLive reads the current date or time from your computer's built-in clock and writes the result in a custom
tag. It then updates the information whenever you save the page.
1 If you want descriptive text before the date or time stamp (for example, "Last revised:"), type the text in the page.
Drag the Modified Date icon from the Smart set
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place it at the insertion point.
3 In the Modified Date Inspector, choose a country from the Format menu and select a date and time format in the
list of options for the specific country.
To add URL pop-up menus
If you have several hypertext links on your page, you can present them in a pop-up menu for your viewers to choose
from. To test the links in the menu, you must preview the page in a web browser.
Drag the URL Popup icon from the Smart set in the objects toolbox to your page.
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You can change the Choose... label at the top of the menu or make it blank.
A. URL pop-up menu in the page B. URL Popup icon in the objects toolbox
In the URL Popup Inspector, do the following:
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• In the Label text box, type a new label to appear at the top of the new pop-up menu or leave it blank.
To add a URL to the new pop-up menu, click the New Item button
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text box, and enter the destination of the link in the URL text box. If you're using a frame set, specify the target
frame for the URL in the Target text box. You can also click the Duplicate Selected Items button
copy of a URL already in the pop-up menu and edit the label or URL in the Label, URL, and Target text boxes.
in the objects toolbox to the page, or double-click the icon to
. Type a new label for the URL in the Label
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