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Building a Navigation Bar with Fireworks


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Jon Varese

Adobe

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Creating a New Fireworks Document
  3. Creating a Button Symbol
  4. Creating Button States
  5. Creating Multiple Button Instances
  6. Changing Button Instance Text
  7. Assigning URLs and Names to the Buttons
  8. Optimizing the Navigation Bar
  9. Setting HTML Preferences
  10. Exporting the Document to HTML Format
  11. Viewing the Exported Files in the Dreamweaver Files Panel
  12. Viewing the Fireworks HTML File in a Browser
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Created:
19 July 2004
User Level:
Advanced

This tutorial shows you how to build a Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 navigation bar that you can use on multiple pages of your website. A navigation bar—also known as a nav bar—is a series of buttons that appears on one or more pages of a website. Typically, all the buttons in a nav bar look the same, except for their text.

This tutorial is the one in a series of tutorials that shows you how to build a dynamic website from start to finish with Macromedia Studio MX 2004. The complete set of tutorials is available in the Exploring Studio MX manual. It includes the following tutorials:

  • Sketching a Site Navigation Scheme in FreeHand
  • Creating a Table-based Page Layout in Dreamweaver
  • Creating a Banner Graphic in Fireworks
  • Building a Navigation Bar with Fireworks
  • Building Rich Media with Fireworks and Flash
  • Assembling and Editing Studio Assets
  • Building a Database Search Feature

Note: Before proceeding with any of the Studio MX 2004 tutorials, you might want to read Chapter 7, "Web Development Workflow," in the Exploring Studio MX manual. This chapter provides conceptual information about planning, designing, and building dynamic websites.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Fireworks MX 2004

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About the author

Jon Michael Varese is a Senior Technical Writer at Adobe, and Lead Writer for Dreamweaver. He has written web and print documentation for Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FreeHand, Flash, and ColdFusion. In the past he has held such illustrious positions as baker, clown, and funeral attendant. In addition to writing web tutorials, he is currently at work on his Ph.D. in 19th-century British Literature.