Menus that work in fireworks preview but break when exported.

[ahi]

I've noticed that a lot of people have trouble with menus that seem to work fine in the fireworks preview but break once they are exported to HTML and embedded in pages.

Whatever the reason may be, there are also several different solutions to this problem, from what i gathered; i decided to summarize the following points:

1) give the HTML file to export to, a different name.
2) When you export, select extensions of the files that fireworks generates automatically for you from the options available. You need to change actually change the default extensions. this will create a fresh set of images and will not just overwrite previous images.
3) Make sure you are including the javascript file that is generated automatically in your page.
4) Be patient enuf to try out all the options, remember especially that its not easy to get it right the first time. what i mean to say is that, its something that can be overcome by repeating some steps.

 

[noreenmachine]

Hey Ahi. Thanks for the tips. My menus still aren't working.

http://www.geocities.com/designforcpted

I'm about to rip my hair out, yet again.

I tried what you said - renamed the html file, made sure the js file in in my file structure.

I don't know what else to do.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

- Machine

 

[ahi]

Hey Machine,

Thats the kind of error I got when I zipped the pages and sent to someone else and the path set in the file was wrong. open the file which contains your menu, check for 'file://path/filename' crap, you will probably need to set it to a relative path.

I have this gut feeling that its the problem you are having.

all the best.......Ahi

 

[noreenmachine]

Hi there. No that's not it. Ack. I'm not sure what to do. I've double checked the html and can't see the problem. I don't know what else to do.

Thanks.

- Noreen

 

[ahi]

Hi again Noreen,
would you mind attaching the pages? Not that I can do something surely, but I'd like to see really.

cheers.....

 

[noreenmachine]

Hey there. The Fireworks nav is at:

http://www.geocities.com/designforcpted/pages/nav_main.htm

I couldn't find a way to actually attach this page.

Hope that's ok.

Thanks.

- Noreen