MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual page 154

154 Tutorial: Creating Page Mock-ups
Place placeholder text for the links
The first element to create is the text representing the navigation links.
1.
Select the Text tool in the Vector section of the Tools panel, and move
the pointer over the Document window.
The pointer changes to an I-beam, and the Property inspector displays
text properties.
Font
Horizontal Leading
scale
2.
In the Property inspector, set the following tool properties:
From the Font pop-up menu, select TrebuchetMS.
If you don't have TrebuchetMS, select Verdana or a similar font instead.
Click the Bold button.
Enter 14 as the font size.
Select Smooth Anti-Alias as the anti-aliasing level.
Click the Color icon next to the font size menu and select the
white swatch.
Click the Left Alignment button.
Enter 200 as the leading percentage next to the vertical, two-
headed arrow icon.
3.
With the I-beam pointer, click once near the upper-left corner of the
sidebar rectangle.
This step creates an empty text block.
4.
Type Cuisine in the text block, and then press Enter to start a new line.
The width of the text block expands as you type.
Size Fill color Style buttons
Alignment buttons