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[Anthony MMTS]

Hello,

If i am not mistaken, you are creating navigation area for your site. And as
far as you have described, you have created a PNG file for one of the
button. There are certain guidlines i want you to take note when creating
NavBars/buttons in Fireworks (specially when it involves pop-up menus).
Always compose the entire navigation bar in one PNG file. So if you have
(for example) HOME, LINK, EMAIL as your buttons, make sure you arrange them
in one PNG file and export them as HTML and images.Read over the TechNote
below for the detailed discussion of the issue.

<http://www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/ts/documents/multi_popup.htm>

To learn more about how to create buttons and navbars in Fireworks, please
go over the tutorial link below:

Working with Macromedia Fireworks MX buttons and navigation bars
<[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/buttons/working_fw_bttn_nav_bar[/url]
s/index.html>


I hope this helps.

Anthony F. Dugenia
Technical Support Specialist
Macromedia Technical Support
To search for TechNotes and other issues use;
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/[/url]



"MikeG" <mikegpa@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bds6e0$ct4$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> I'm trying to make 3 state buttons. Up, Over and Down.
>
> I have all three states done in a .png file for the Home button.
>
> Now I have to make 6 of each for the rest of the buttons.
>
> I'm getting confused at this point. How do I do them so that the text
> remains in exactly the same place on each button state? I'm afraid the

text

> will move slightly and jump around if I type it into each button state,

but

> that might be the right way to do it.
>
> Thanks...Mike
>
>

[darrel]

> I'm getting confused at this point. How do I do them so that the text
> remains in exactly the same place on each button state?

Use frames. That's what they are for.

Put your text on one layer, duplicate that frame 3 times, and then just
change the other attributes for the over and down states, leaving the text
layer as-is.

-Darrel

[MikeG]

I am trying to create some semi-transparent buttons as used on the fantastic
Project Seven site below, using their Menu Magic 1:

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/hof/index.htm[/url]

But I can't get my buttons to be semi-transparent. Where am I going wrong? I
open a new canvas, set to transparent; I draw the rectangle, and set the
layer to 20% transparency, then I use a new layer for the text and another
leayer for the + sign, then I optimize as a gif using index transparency. I
insert a slice and name it properly. But the image isn't transparent at all
when it hits the page...Mike