Fireworks - Lesson5: Creating Buttons

Before beginning this lesson copy the entire Lesson05 folder from the WebDesign folder on the ITServer to your personal folder. You will be using the Adventure5.png file in this lesson. Refer to lesson 5 on page 69 to answer these questions.

1. What are the three things that make up a button in Fireworks and enable the button behaviors?

2. What are the four rollover states and which of these states are optional?

3. Where are new buttons automatically stored?

4. What do you call the "copy" of the button you place in your document?

Step 5.1: Creating the Up and Over State of a Button and Working in the Buton Editor

5. When you move from the Up state tab to the Over state tab what option allows you to copy the original object from the Up state window to the Over state window in the Button Editor?

6. Explain the function of the slice in relation to a button.

7. When would you want a slice larger than the actual button?

8. Where in the tool box can you find the show and hide slices buttons?

Step 5.2: Modifying and Previewing a Button

9. What three types of symbols that are stored in the library?

10. What do you call the "copy" of a symbol that you place in a document?

Step 5.3: Working with Buttons

11. List 5 different options available under the Assests (Library) Panel Options.

12. How do you add a button from the library to your document?

Step 5.4 Linking Buttons to HTML Pages

13. Where do you go to create a link for a button?

Step 5.5 Converting Graphics to Buttons

14. Explain how you modify the slice area of a button.

15. While in your main document, click on the F12 key. What happens?

16. Show your completed document to your instructor for teacher check.

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