Dreamweaver and Xtreme link question

I am hoping for a bit of assistance with Xtreme and DW Integration

I have created my Xtreme layout(a simple email) - I added a "Click HERE" button to the design - then I added/created the web address for this button. When I preview in Xtreme the link works perfect(export>previewinbroswer).

Now, when i export the image- choose the design note and do the export into the same folder as my webpage in DW- the button link is not active -

I know that it creates a "_notes folder" - and that folder is in the folder on my HD - but DW is not seeing the "_notes folder"- and hence I do not think it is getting the correct instruction for the button (the website addy)to make the link active.

Can I rename the "_Notes" folder to just "notes" (no underscore)? And if i do, will the export note about the "Click HERE" button weblink undersatnd where to look?

Has anyone had this problem - or could you help me troubleshoot this?

I did make the graphic editor to be Xtreme in DW- re-did the export - and same problem.- great graphic - the text "Click HERE" is there - but when I preview through DW onto IE or Firefox- the link does not work.

Any Help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Jimmymax75

Hi,
I haven't used dreamweaver since MX version, and I am taking a wild guess here, but XaraXtreme when preview in browser has its own code written when to temp file for previewing so everything works, I believe for it to work in Dreamweaver you havve look at source and see what is in there and deicipher the problem.
Dreamweaver makes up the necessary Javascript code and links as you design within the program so importing doesn't work as expected. Design note are for use when their is a collaboration of programers working with the web page I believe.
I may be extemely off base here but it will give you some ideas to think about.
Jim

Thanks for the reply - and I guess I should say that I use DW8- not Cs3 yet.

I hope others can chime in - i have sent the same request to tech support
and I am awaiting their advice- i will post their reply if it helps to this post as well for others that may be having the same issue

jimmymax75

I"m not familiar with DreamWeaver at all, but it sounds like you just need to insert the image into your page and then tell DreamWeaver that you want it to be a hyperlink. Or create a hyperlink and tell it that you want the link text to be your image instead of just some regular text.

The raw HTML for that might look something like this:

<a href="http://blah.com"><img src="http://blah.com/image.jpg" width="xx" height="xx" border="0"></a>

The width/height/border parts are probably not necessary if you're using CSS to style the images.

I certainly know how to do that for the entire image link ref

however, i am trying to make each of the buttons
a link inside (embedded) in the image created in
Xtreme.

So I have first image which is the design

I then create the button - and layer that on the image
In Xtreme, it has a web link option for that image
then when you preview that image through Xtreme
it has that button in that graphic be an actual link through
to the website -

But i am still having the problem with the DW not seeing that coding that
Xtreme places in that image through the design note and
image mapping feature that is in the export function.

Basically, the design note is being placed
on my HD (Folder "_notes") , and this in in the DW website folder on my HD
- but the DW is not picking that folder up and that is where my
problem is. If you ever get unawanted emails (I am sure you do)
you can see numerous areas where they overlap the "Click HERE"
button on top of the ad - and that is where the HTML knows
where to direct that click through to - not just the whole image being
a click through which is easy to do and not so good looking

I hope this explains it better for you, and I keep replying
hoping that one of the other gurus can follow my path here and maybe help me figure this one out as well.

Thanks for your input - I do appreciate it.

Jimmymax75

Hi

Hope I'm not treading on any experts toes here but I had a go at doing this for the first time a couple of days ago and found:

*when adding address make sure you have the 'rectangle surround' option
*save image as .xar file before exporting
*if you don't want to export directly to your html file, create a new one (you can always copy the code block afterwards)
*in export/image map dialogue select "export image map to file", browse to target file and save - two more option become available ...
*select "insert image into existing file"
*select "save all clickable areas as rectangles" and then export

When you open the html file in Dreamweaver the image map is there. I don't think the design notes option affects the clickable areas as I succeded exporting with it unselected.

Hope this helps :)

John

John:

Thank you so much - After 12 hours of struggling it was that file location
to the html file in DW that I was not doing.

Thanks again - this did work like a charm -

Now on to making money (with less and less hair everyday!!)

:)

Delighted I could help. Must admit though, I never thought I'd be able to help anyone with anything involving Dreamweaver of all things:eek:

Cheers

John