Adobe GoLive 6.0- P5 ppt

117 ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 Classroom in a Book Aligning and distributing multiple objects Now that you’ve added all of the images, you’re ready to align and distribute them. You’ll align the tops of the three images for the navigation bar using the Align palette. 1 To display the Align palette, choose Window > Align. The toolbar lets you align objects relative to a layout grid, while the Align palette lets you align and distribute objects relative to each other or their parent. 2 Click the Items In Stock image to select it. Then Shift-click the Repairs image and the Appraisals image to add them to the selection. 3 In the Align palette, click the Vertical Align Top button ( ) under Align Objects. (If the tops of the selected objects are already aligned, this button is dimmed.) The tops of the selected images are aligned. • If you want to preserve multiple layers of a Photoshop design, you can import the layers of the image as individual Web images in floating boxes (DHTML layers). Because the Web images are displayed in floating boxes, you can completely reposition them, overlap them, and apply other actions to them such as the Show Hide action. (See “Hiding and showing floating boxes” and “Working with Photoshop layered files” in the Adobe GoLive 6.0 online Help.) • You can use your Photoshop-based design as a tracing image and save individual cutouts as Web images in floating boxes. If you want, you can create a duplicate page that places the tracings in a table-based design by converting the floating boxes to a layout grid. (See “Converting floating boxes into layout grids” and “Building a Web page using tracing images” in the Adobe GoLive 6.0 online Help.) LESSON 3 118 Designing Web Pages 4 With the three images still selected, click the Vertical Align Top button ( ) under Align to Parent. The three images are aligned with the top of the layout grid. 5 Choose Window > Align to close the Align palette. Now you’ll move the three images together using a keyboard shortcut. 6 Click away from the three images to deselect them, and select only the Items In Stock image on the page. Then hold down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and press the Left Arrow key until the image moves no further. 7 Select only the Repairs image on the page, and use the same method to move it to the left until it moves no further. Then select only the Appraisals image, and move it to the left until it moves no further. The selected objects are moved horizontally on the page so that their edges touch each other. Note: By default, a layout grid has options set to snap objects to the grid. To move a selected object 16 pixels (the default spacing between the horizontal and vertical lines of the grid), press an arrow key. To move a selected object 1 pixel, hold down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and press an arrow key. When you have finished placing objects on a grid, it’s a good idea to optimize the grid, which you’ll do now. Optimizing a grid reduces its size, so that it takes up less space on the page. 119 ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 Classroom in a Book 8 Click the layout grid to select it. Then click Optimize in the Layout Grid Inspector. Optimized layout grid For the purposes of this lesson, you won’t add navigation links to the images. You’ll add these links later in Lesson 5, “Creating Navigational Links.” 9 Choose File > Save to save navbar.html. Then choose File > Close to close it. Designing the home page Now that you have finished creating the component for a navigation bar, you’re ready to design the home page for the Web site. The home page will provide information that introduces users to Gage Vintage Guitars. First you’ll open the home page and change its title. 1 In the Files tab of the site window, double-click index.html to open it. 2 Change the title of the page to Gage Vintage Guitars. Select the default title next to the Page icon ( ) in the upper left corner of the document window, and enter the new title. LESSON 3 120 Designing Web Pages Applying a background image You can apply an image or color to the background of your page to visually enhance it. You can also apply an image or color to the background of a container on the page, such as a layout grid. When choosing an image for the page background, keep in mind that GoLive and browsers treat the image as a tile that’s repeated to cover the page. Now you’ll add a background image to the home page. First you’ll preview the image using the File Inspector. 1 In the Files tab of the site window, select the wood.gif file in the images folder. The Inspector changes to the File Inspector and displays detailed information about the selected file. 2 Click the Content tab of the File Inspector, and notice that a preview of wood.gif appears. Now you’ll use the wood.gif file to add a background image to the page. 3 Click the Page icon ( ) in the upper left corner of the document window, so that the Inspector changes to the Page Inspector. 4 In the Page tab of the Page Inspector, select (or check) the Image option under Background. 121 ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 Classroom in a Book 5 Drag from the Point and Shoot button ( ) in the Page Inspector to wood.gif in the images folder within the site window. Specifying image to tile for page’s background Result The image of the wood is tiled to cover the page. 6 Choose File > Save to save your work. Adding a component using a placeholder Now you’ll add the navigation bar to the home page using the component that you created earlier in this lesson. First you’ll add a component placeholder to the page, and then you’ll link the placeholder to a file in the site’s Components folder. LESSON 3 122 Designing Web Pages 1 Drag the Component icon from the Smart set ( ) in the Objects palette to the upper left corner of the page. Adding component placeholder to page A component placeholder is added to the page. 2 Select the component placeholder, and the Inspector changes to the Component Inspector. Drag from the Point and Shoot button ( ) in the Component Inspector to navbar.html in the Components folder in the site window. (Remember that the Compo- nents folder is displayed in the Extras tab in the right pane of the site window.) The navigation bar is added to the top of the page. 3 Choose File > Save to save the home page. 123 ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 Classroom in a Book Adding text using layout text boxes When you add text to a page using layout text boxes on a layout grid, you can easily rearrange the location of the text by moving or aligning the boxes. You can also add images and other objects to layout text boxes, so that you can align objects within the text or wrap text around objects. Now you’ll add text to the home page using layout text boxes on a layout grid. First you’ll add a layout grid to the page. 1 Drag the Layout Grid icon from the Basic set ( ) in the Objects palette to the empty area below the component on the page. Now you’ll specify a width and height for the grid. 2 In the Layout Grid Inspector, enter 600 for Width, press Tab to jump to the next text box, and enter 300 for Height. Press Enter or Return. Now you’re ready to add the first layout text box to the layout grid. You’ll use this box to add a main heading to the page. 3 Drag the Layout Text Box icon from the Basic set in the Objects palette to the upper center area of the layout grid. A layout text box is added to the grid. If needed, you can adjust the position of the box by moving the pointer to an edge of the box so that it turns into a hand, and then dragging the box. LESSON 3 124 Designing Web Pages 4 Click inside the layout text box to create an insertion point, and type Welcome to Gage Vintage Guitars. Then choose Header 1 from the Paragraph Format menu on the toolbar. Text in layout text box, reformatted as Header 1 You can use the toolbar to position selected objects precisely on a layout grid. Now you’ll use the toolbar to reposition the layout text box. 5 Click an edge of the layout text box to select it. Be sure to select the layout text box and not the layout grid box. 6 On the toolbar, enter 179 in the Horizontal Position text box, press Tab to jump to the next text box, and enter 0 in the Vertical Position text box. Press Enter or Return. The layout text box is repositioned 179 pixels from the left edge of the layout grid and 0 pixels from the top of the grid. You can also use the toolbar to resize a selected object. Now you’ll use the toolbar to resize the layout text box. 7 On the toolbar, enter 400 in the Width text box, press Tab to jump to the next text box, and enter 80 in the Height text box. Press Enter or Return. Note: If the values used in this section don’t work on your system, you can adjust them as necessary. Use the values given as a guide. Entering values to reposition and resize selected object 125 ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 Classroom in a Book The layout text box is resized to 400 pixels in width and 80 pixels in height. Note: In a browser, a layout text box automatically adjusts its size in relation to its content, which resizes according to the platform that the browser is using (for example, to accom- modate fonts that appear larger in Windows and smaller in Mac OS). This can affect the size of the layout grid, as well as the position of other items on the layout grid, altering the intended design. So that text size appears more consistently across platforms, you can assign a pixel size definition for all text using a cascading style sheet. Now you’ll add a second layout text box to the layout grid. You’ll use this box to add a subheading to the page. 8 Drag the Layout Text Box icon from the Basic set in the Objects palette to the upper left area of the grid. 9 Click inside the second layout text box to create an insertion point, and type Check Out This Week’s Hottest Buy! Then drag to select the text that you just typed, click the Bold button ( ) on the toolbar, and choose 4 from the Font Size menu on the toolbar. After applying individual HTML attributes to text using the toolbar, you can save them as a group in the HTML Style palette, and then use the palette to reapply the group of attributes to other text in your site (see Lesson 4, “Working with Text and Tables,” for more information). You can also use cascading style sheets to define text formatting once and then instruct browsers to reuse the definitions whenever text on a page refers to them (see Lesson 12, “Using Cascading Style Sheets,” for more information). 10 To resize the second layout text box, click an edge of the box to select it, and drag one of its handles. Resizing layout text box by dragging its handles 11 Choose File > Save to save index.html. LESSON 3 126 Designing Web Pages Adding text using a table In addition to displaying information in rows and columns, tables can be used to lay out text and objects on a page. To add text to a table, you can type directly in a table cell, copy and paste text from GoLive or another application, and import text from a text-only file created in a word-processing or spreadsheet application, for example. Now you’ll use a table to add text that introduces Gage Vintage Guitars to the home page. Currently, the text resides in a text-only file. To save time, you’ll copy and paste the text from the file into a single-cell table that you’ll add to the page. You can place a table directly on the page or on a layout grid, which gives you more control over its placement but may result in more complex HTML code. 1 Drag the Table icon from the Basic set ( ) in the Objects palette to the area below the main heading on the layout grid. Adding table to layout grid A table is added to the grid, and the Inspector changes to the Table Inspector. By default, the table has three rows and three columns. You’ll change the number of rows and columns using the Table Inspector. 2 In the Table tab of the Table Inspector, enter 1 for Rows, press Tab to jump to the next text box, and enter 1 for Columns. Press Enter or Return. Now you’ll specify the width of the table. You’ll also set the table’s border width to 0, so that the borders appear as a solid or dashed outline in the Layout Editor but don’t appear in the browser. [...]... from the page’s cascading style sheet (see “Using Cascading Style Sheets” in the Adobe GoLive 6.0 online Help) For table-based designs, you can convert non-overlapping floating boxes and their contents to a new page with the contents duplicated on a layout grid (see “Converting floating boxes into layout grids” in the Adobe GoLive 6.0 online Help) 146 LESSON 3 Designing Web Pages Resizing and positioning... Transform and Align palettes to position, resize, and align multiple floating boxes in the same way as other objects (see “Repositioning, aligning, or distributing objects” in the Adobe GoLive 6.0 online Help) –-From the Adobe GoLive 6.0 online Help Visitors using older Web browsers may not see a Web page correctly if it contains features and technology such as JavaScript, frames, and floating boxes Also,... contains text, it converts into a layout text box on the grid The position, size, and background color attributes of the floating box are retained GoLive creates a new page to contain the converted objects, keeping the original page of floating boxes intact ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 143 Classroom in a Book Adding the second floating box Now you’ll add a second floating box to the page that will contain a description... Objects palette to the head section pane Adding Keywords element to head section ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 133 Classroom in a Book A Keywords element is added to the head section of the page, and the Inspector changes to the Keywords Inspector To add an element to the head section pane, you can also drag it to the body of the page to have GoLive automatically open the head section pane and add the element to it 3... comment in the source code Click the Layout tab to return to the Layout Editor 6 Choose File > Save to save your work ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 135 Classroom in a Book Adding a date and time stamp You can add a date or time stamp to a page, so that viewers can tell 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... the comment does not appear in the preview Click the Layout tab to return to the Layout Editor 9 Then choose File > Close to close the page Now you’re ready to design two other pages for the site ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 137 Classroom in a Book Adding a component to an existing Web page Now you’ll update the design of an existing Web page that you’ve already added to the Web site The page provides information... the Appraisal page Now you’ll name each of the new untitled site colors according to how they’re used on the Appraisal page 3 Click in the blank space outside the selected colors to deselect them ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 139 Classroom in a Book 4 Click the name of the green untitled color to select it Enter column2 to rename the color This is the color used in the second column of the table 5 Change the name... learn how to add a site color using the Site Color list in the Color palette 5 In the Site Color list ( ) in the Color palette, select the color named “page” so that it appears in the preview pane ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 141 Classroom in a Book 6 Drag the color from the preview pane to the Page icon in the upper left corner of the document window Changing page’s background color The background color of the... changes to the Floating Box Inspector When you add a single floating box to a page, GoLive inserts a small yellow marker labeled SB, which stays at the original point of insertion even after you move the floating box Adding floating box to page It’s important to name floating boxes, so that you can differentiate them from one another GoLive displays their names in the Floating Boxes palette and in lists that... page background Now you’ll add another untitled color to the Colors tab, extract a color from the company logo in the component on the page, and add a Web-safe approximation of it to the Colors tab ADOBE GOLIVE 6.0 131 Classroom in a Book 8 Drag the Color icon from the Site set ( ) in the Objects palette, and drop it on the New Colors folder in the Colors tab of the site window An untitled color is . source code. Click the Layout tab to return to the Layout Editor. 6 Choose File > Save to save your work. 135 ADOBE GOLIVE 6. 0 Classroom in a Book Adding a date and time stamp You can add a. (See “Hiding and showing floating boxes” and “Working with Photoshop layered files” in the Adobe GoLive 6. 0 online Help.) • You can use your Photoshop-based design as a tracing image and save individual. “Converting floating boxes into layout grids” and “Building a Web page using tracing images” in the Adobe GoLive 6. 0 online Help.) LESSON 3 118 Designing Web Pages 4 With the three images still selected,