DW8, FL8, Contribute 3 & Design-time layers

[Friction_Derek]

I am trying to construct a template in Dreamweaver 8 that contains a CSS layer
which, in turn, contains a flash 8 movie. This movie will act as my drop-down
menu. The flash movie is set to transparent and the overflow is visible (so
that content underneath will be obsured by the menu).
The problem I am having is that when the client goes to edit the HTML pages
(based on this template) the layer containing the drop-down is obscuring the
content (which contains editable regions) and preventing editing.
I understand that one way to solve this problem is to make the CSS layer
containing the flash movie hidden using a Dreamweaver "design-time" stylesheet.
However, I cannot seem to get it right. Whatever I do the layer is either
hidden (and therefore no drop-down menu) or visible and still obscuring content.
Does anyone know how to address this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Derek Taylor:confused;

[Murray *TMM*]

Your menu is in the Flash? Have you accommodated people who don't have the
Flash plugin, or spiders that cannot parse the links from the Flash?
Generally speaking, Flash navigation is a bad approach unless you have a
compelling reason to do so.

> However, I cannot seem to get it right. Whatever I do the layer is either
> hidden (and therefore no drop-down menu) or visible and still obscuring
> content.
> Does anyone know how to address this problem?

You are talking design-time, though, right?

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"Friction_Derek" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to construct a template in Dreamweaver 8 that contains a CSS
>layer
> which, in turn, contains a flash 8 movie. This movie will act as my
> drop-down
> menu. The flash movie is set to transparent and the overflow is visible
> (so
> that content underneath will be obsured by the menu).
> The problem I am having is that when the client goes to edit the HTML
> pages
> (based on this template) the layer containing the drop-down is obscuring
> the
> content (which contains editable regions) and preventing editing.
> I understand that one way to solve this problem is to make the CSS layer
> containing the flash movie hidden using a Dreamweaver "design-time"
> stylesheet.
> However, I cannot seem to get it right. Whatever I do the layer is either
> hidden (and therefore no drop-down menu) or visible and still obscuring
> content.
> Does anyone know how to address this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Derek Taylor:confused;
>

[Friction_Derek]

Well, its either that or use the (extremely flaky) Javascript drop-down menu
that comes with Dreamweaver.
The code is a mile long with the JScript menu making the pages load very
slowly.
Well, I was advised (by MM) to use design-time to hide the layer containing
the flash menu in Contribute. But I cant get it to work.

[Murray *TMM*]

> Well, its either that or use the (extremely flaky) Javascript drop-down

> menu
> that comes with Dreamweaver.

Why not use one of the very solid other choices that you have - e.g.,

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm[/url]

or

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm[/url]

and here's an example you can analyze -

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/autolayers/[/url]

or -

[url]http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/default.asp[/url]

> But I cant get it to work.

Show me what you have in the DT stylesheet.


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"Friction_Derek" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Well, its either that or use the (extremely flaky) Javascript drop-down
> menu
> that comes with Dreamweaver.
> The code is a mile long with the JScript menu making the pages load very
> slowly.
> Well, I was advised (by MM) to use design-time to hide the layer
> containing
> the flash menu in Contribute. But I cant get it to work.
>