Inserting Fireworks Pop-Up Menus

Inserting Fireworks Pop-Up Menus

If you own Fireworks 8, you can use it to create a pop-up menu. It's possible to create one without Fireworks (see the next section, "Inserting Dreamweaver Pop-Up Menus"), but Dreamweaver cautions you when you do that the pop-up menus created in Fireworks are easier to control and change.

If you create the pop-up menu in Fireworks and insert it into a Dreamweaver document, it's best to use the round-trip editing feature to edit the menu in Fireworks. You will be able to edit the pop-up menu in Dreamweaver, but if you do, you lose the ability to edit it in Fireworks later. Stick with Fireworks.

When you have the Fireworks pop-up menu completed, simply export it. Fireworks will create all the image and HTML files for you and add them to the Dreamweaver site root folder. With the files in your site folder, you're ready to insert the menu in Dreamweaver.

To insert a Fireworks pop-up menu:

1.	Place the insertion point in the document where you want the menu.
2.	Choose Insert > Image Objects > Fireworks HTML. or Select Fireworks HTML from the pop-up menu by the Image icon in the Common category on the Insert Bar ( Figure 12.25 ). The Insert Fireworks HTML dialog will open ( Figure 12.26 ). Figure 12.25. You can choose to add Fireworks HTML from the Image icon in the Common category of the Insert Bar. Figure 12.26. Getting Fireworks HTML into Dreamweaver is as easy as pointing to the HTML file.
3.	Browse for or type the name of the Fireworks HTML file.
4.	Select the "Delete file after insertion" option if you no longer want the Fireworks HTML to be stored as a separate file. Selecting this option won't affect the source PNG file associated with the HTML file, or your ability to use round-trip editing to edit the pop-up menu in Fireworks.
5.	Click OK to insert your menu. All the HTML, image links, and JavaScript connected to the pop-up menu are inserted in the appropriate areas in the document.

Tip

• Deleting the HTML file after insertion has its pros and cons. You might want to keep it around to use elsewhere, or you might want to delete it to clean up after yourself. Either way, you can re-create it inside Fireworks, so if you delete it accidentally , it's not the end of the world.