Fusion Explanations

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Image Hyperlinks	You can attach a hyperlink to an image (like the Web.com image in to the bottom border or the McGraw Hill/Osborne image in the left border). The link can go to either an internal part of the web site (another page) or out to the internet (another web site). To set up an image-based hyperlink click the image, then click the hyperlink tool in the Standard Tools toolbar. This causes the Link dialog box to appear, where you can pick the link type (such as internal or external) and the link destination.
Actions	You can create “actions” that cause text and pictures to fly onto the page, fly off the page, and appear/disappear in all sorts of ways, as well as performing other actions whenever the “trigger” for that action occurs. The “How to do Everything with NetObjects Fusion 11” text object flies up from the bottom whenever a page with the standard MasterBorder is loaded because it has the “fly” action attached, with message “up from bottom” and a trigger of “when page loaded”. Note: If you don’t see this effect, but instead get the yellow “security bar” at the top of Internet Explorer, you’ll have to right-click on that bar and allow the action to proceed.
Counter Lite	The hit counter at the bottom of the page is a service that NetObjects offers. You can have one Counter Lite for free, but you’ll have to sign up for a free account. You’ll be prompted to sign up the firs time you place the Counter Lite. You can configure what gets counted as well as how often you get an emailed report.
Site Map	The site map control shows you an outline of the site in a separate window. You can hover the mouse over each box (in the chart version) to see the page, and click on the box to navigate to that page. You can also search for a page title, or view the site structure in an outline, where each page name is shown. Again, clicking on a page name navigates to that page.

Photo Gallery

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Types of Galleries	There are two types of photo galleries you can build: HTML Galleries and Flash Galleries. The two types are galleries are described below.
HTML Photo Gallery	An HTML Gallery initially displays a set of thumbnails for each image in the gallery. You can configure what the thumbnails look like and their size using the controls in the component. You can also rearrange the thumbnails by clicking and dragging them on the page. Clicking on a thumbnail displays the “full size” image on its own page. You can specify the border style and specify both a title and a description for each image. You can configure how big an image you want displayed, and Fusion will scale the images to that size before uploading them to the web site. While you can certainly upload and display the original image, these tend to be huge and will take quite a while to download and view, even on a broadband connection. There are controls on each single image page so you can navigate to the next image (right) , the previous image (left), and back to the page of thumbnails (up).
Flash Photo Gallery	A Flash Photo Gallery enable you to choose from a variety of page styles, most of which show a set of thumbnails and a full-size image (but not all of them do). As with an HTML Photo Gallery, clicking on a thumbnail displays the “full-size” image, and you can configure how big you want that image to be. Unlike an HTML Photo Gallery, though, you can configure a Flash Photo Gallery to use multiple pages, and limit the number of thumbnails on each page. Another major difference is that Flash Photo Galleries allow for animation (but don’t overdo it!). You can animate the frame for the large image, animate how the large image is displayed and removed from the screen, and even animate the thumbnails and their borders. Further, you can add animation for when the mouse moves over a thumbnail -- such as adding a drop-shadow. In order for a Flash Photo Gallery to work, the user must have the Flash Player installed.

Data

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Publishing Data

If you’d like to publish a block of data on your web site (say, from a spreadsheet), you can do that with the Data List component. The advantage to publishing data this way (over manually building a list and setting up hyperlinks to each detail page) is:

1. It is a lot easier to set up initially. Once you identify the “data source” and do some configuration, Fusion will build not only the “table of contents” that lists (for example) the title and a few other items to identify the data element, but also all the of the detail pages that contain the full data for each item. Fusion also automatically adds the navigation controls to move from one record to another.

2. It is a lot easier to update the contents. The old way, you needed to add a line to the table of contents, create a new page with the new data, and link from the table of contents entry to the new page. With Fusion, you just update the spreadsheet (or whatever your data source is) and republish your site.

Note: If there are a significant number of records in your data, it can take a while to build the individual pages, and also to publish them. So, be patient!

Tip: You can publish the same data multiple ways, for example, filtering the data to only include certain records, and sorting the data in different ways.

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