Tutorial 8

Tutorial 8

Creating Interactivity

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Objectives

• Session 8.1– Insert an interactive button– Modify the appearance of an interactive button– Change button text– Create a navigation bar

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Objectives

• Session 8.2– Create a jump menu– Modify a jump menu list– Implement swap image behavior– Add multimedia to a Web page

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Visual OverviewCreating Interactive Buttons

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Creating Web Page Interactivity

• Terminology– JavaScript• A programming language used to create

interactivity on the Web– Behaviors• Combinations of an event and an action

– Event• Triggers an action to take place

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Creating Web Page Interactivity

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Creating Interactive Buttons

• Interactive Buttons– Are images• Expression Web has over 200 images that can

be used• Can be used to create a navigation bar

– Change appearance when the pointer hovers over the image• Referred to as a “Swap” effect

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Creating Interactive Buttons

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Creating Interactive Buttons

– Buttons can be styled and their appearance enhanced using color• Original font color–Button color before it is clicked

• Hovered font color–Button color when pointers hover over the

button• Pressed font color–Button color when user clicks the button

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Creating Interactive Buttons

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Creating Interactive Buttons

– Button width and height can also be adjusted– Buttons can be copied and the text edited to

create a navigation bar for the Web page• All buttons should have a uniform appearance

– Best to save buttons in a separate folder

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Visual OverviewCreating Behaviors

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Creating a Jump Menu

• A Jump Menu is drop-down list box that contains a list of navigation links

• Ideal to use when many links exist and conserving space is important

• Create the Jump menu using the Behaviors panel

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Creating a Jump Menu

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Creating a Swap Image

• Swap Image Behavior– Exchanges one image for another when user

passes pointer over an image– Two images used for the swap should have same

height and width

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Creating a Swap Image

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Using the Open Browser Window Behavior

• Open Browser Image Behavior– New browser window opens within current

browser window– User does not leave original web site

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Adding Media to Your Web Pages

• Adobe Flash is the most commonly used media format

• Silverlight is a new technology that uses the XAML programming language– Microsoft Blend is used to program XAML files and

create Silverlight applications• Microsoft Deep Zoom– Displays large images by panning and zooming

• Windows Media– Allows website to link to audio and video files