Producing Web Components; Features For Web Production; Web Objects: The Basics Of Web Production - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 2-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

Producing web components

Fireworks has tools for creating many common web
components, such as image maps, buttons, and animated
GIFs. Also, Fireworks simplifies many web graphic
preparation tasks, such as slicing large graphics into
multiple files and creating JavaScript rollovers.

Features for web production

There are eight primary features used to produce
hotspots, slices, and rollovers. Those features are:
Hotspot Object tools—
shape of rectangles, circles, or polygons.
Draw rectangular slice objects used to
Slice tool—
separate the image into multiple image files when
exported.
Set specific properties of hotspot
Object inspector—
objects or slice objects.
Assign interactive behaviors to
Behaviors inspector—
web objects.
Create, import, or export URLs to
URLs Manager—
attach to web objects.
Store alternative appearances for
Frames panel—
rollovers and rollover buttons, or for cels of an
animation.
File > Document Properties—
Fireworks-generated HTML files or sliced graphics are
named and make image map settings.
Optimize graphics for export,
Export Preview—
previewing different export settings before you export
the graphic.
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Web objects: The basics of
web production
The key component of hotspot and rollover graphics in
Fireworks is the web object. Web objects are objects
drawn to designate an area of the graphic that triggers
an event when the image is viewed in a browser.
All web objects have these characteristics:
Attach URLs to web objects to create a link to
URLs—
another web page when clicked in a browser.
Enter alternate text to be displayed in
Alternate text—
a browser while the image is loading or unavailable.
Apply behaviors to web objects to create
Behaviors—
interactivity through JavaScript.
Web objects appear on the Web Layer of
Web Layer—
the Layers panel. The Web Layer is shared across all
frames. The Web Layer may be locked or hidden, but
may not be deleted.
Fireworks has two types of web objects: the hotspot
object and the slice object.
These are rectangles, circles, or
Hotspot objects—
polygons drawn using the Hotspot tools. Also, hotspot
objects can be created from existing objects in a
Fireworks document using the Insert > Hotspot
command. Hotspot objects designate clickable regions
for an image map or designate the event area for a
rollover behavior.
These are rectangular web objects that
Slice objects—
slice the image into multiple image files when the image
is exported. Also, slice objects define regions of the
graphic that may be targeted by rollover behaviors.