Chapter 11: Slices, Rollovers, And Hotspots - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

CHAPTER 11
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Making slices interactive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Preparing slices for export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
Working with hotspots and image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
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