Ease of navigation is a key factor in winning repeat visitors. Accordingly, web designers spend considerable time and effort in designing attractive and functional navigation panels.
Before StudioLine, a navigation panel and its buttons had to be laid out in a graphics tool. Multiple layers or distinct button versions were created to achieve roll-over effects. At the end, the design had to be cut into partial images and placed into carefully calculated HTML tables or frames. Any modification required a repeat of most of these steps. Image maps may have been less work, yet did not allow for any roll-over effects.
With StudioLine, attractive navigation panels are easily created in the page editor:
Place navigation buttons anywhere on the page and on any back-drop.
If necessary, use the Align Objects button on the toolbar for proper orientation.
Select a navigation button and open the Image Toolbox to choose any image processing.
Click the Roll-Over Mode button on the tool bar and choose any roll-over effects. Repeatedly click the Roll-Over Mode button on the tool bar to preview the result.
Drag the Copy control of the toolbox panel to apply identical image processing to the other navigation buttons.
If the navigation panel is created on a Layout Template, it will automatically be duplicated to any derived pages. Roll-Over Effects