I am new at using Fireworks 4 and Dreamweaver 4. I have the Dreamweaver 4 studio. I have made a prelimanary web page. The problem is when you put your cursor on the page the save,print,document bar comes up and covers my Welcome text. I know this happens when Internet Explorer shows a JPEG or a GIF. What do I do to stop this from happening? I had assumed that when I exported the picture to Dreamweaver as a JPEG that it would be taken care of in Dreamweaver. Please help. The site is if you need to see what is happening. Thanks.
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When you exported your page design to Dreamweaver did you have it sliced up into a table? If so, did you contain your welcome text within one cell?
If this is the case then go into Dreamweaver and select the cell that currently has your welcome text in it. As you know, you currently have your text as an image file, which isn't necessary (plus it means your page takes longer to load).
If you delete the image which is your welcome text you can then just enter regular text into the cell instead.
The next time you create a page in Fireworks, bear in mind which elements you want to keep as graphics and which will need to become text and slice up the page so they're kept separate of eachother. If you make sure they all go into their own cells then you can adjust them as you need to in Dreamweaver.
Another thing you may come across - Fireworks will make graphics for individual cells that contain just a single colour. Again, these cause your page to load slower and they're unnecessary, so delete them in Dreamweaver and just change the background colour of the cell to the colour of the original graphic (remembering to add in a non-breaking space to the code to keep the cell from collapsing in Netscape).
I hope I've been able to explain what's happened, but if not then maybe someone else can explain a bit clearer or I can clarify things you're unsure of.
Julianne
If this is the case then go into Dreamweaver and select the cell that currently has your welcome text in it. As you know, you currently have your text as an image file, which isn't necessary (plus it means your page takes longer to load).
If you delete the image which is your welcome text you can then just enter regular text into the cell instead.
The next time you create a page in Fireworks, bear in mind which elements you want to keep as graphics and which will need to become text and slice up the page so they're kept separate of eachother. If you make sure they all go into their own cells then you can adjust them as you need to in Dreamweaver.
Another thing you may come across - Fireworks will make graphics for individual cells that contain just a single colour. Again, these cause your page to load slower and they're unnecessary, so delete them in Dreamweaver and just change the background colour of the cell to the colour of the original graphic (remembering to add in a non-breaking space to the code to keep the cell from collapsing in Netscape).
I hope I've been able to explain what's happened, but if not then maybe someone else can explain a bit clearer or I can clarify things you're unsure of.
Julianne
Something else I just thought of... You could try Ulead Photoimpact 7 instead of Fireworks. You can mock up your page, slice it up, add rollovers, optimise etc etc just as you can in Fireworks but you also have the ability to add text in such a way that the code for the web page creates that text as pure html text, rather than turning the text into a graphic.
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Thanks Julianne, that helps me decide what to do with it. I am still trying to work out the integration of using Firworks and Dreamweaver. I will try Photoimpact 7 and see how it works. Thanks again. The secret to education lies in respecting the student. {Ralph Waldo Emerson}.
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That may well stop the IE6 image bar appearing but the way to solve the problem is not to have your whole page sliced into images in the first place!
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