Creating a rotating image banner Activity 7 Procedure Creating AP Elements 1.Start Dreamweaver and...
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Creating a rotating image banner Activity 7 Procedure Creating AP Elements 1. Start Dreamweaver and select the ‘Hong Kong Scenery’ web site. 2. Create a new HTML document and save it as banner.html. 3. In the ‘Layout’ Insert bar, click the ‘Draw AP Div’ button .
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Creating a rotating image banner
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Procedure
Creating AP Elements1. Start Dreamweaver and select the ‘Hong Kong Scenery’
web site.2. Create a new HTML document and save it as banner.html.3. In the ‘Layout’ Insert bar, click the ‘Draw AP Div’
button .
4. Draw an AP Element on the web page.
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5. The AP Element is automatically named ‘apDiv1’ with z-index ‘1’. Set its size to 720 × 100 pixels, which has the same resolution as the banner images to be added in step 7. Set the left ‘L’ and top ‘T’ margins to both 8 pixels.
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6. Click the ‘Browse’ button to select the background image for ‘apDiv1’.
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7. Locate the image banner_cable.jpg from the Learning CD-ROM.
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8. The image is set as the background image of ‘apDiv1’ Element.
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9. In the CSS Inspector, select the ‘AP Elements’ tab and click the ‘apDiv1’ Element until the closed eye icon is displayed.
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10. Draw another AP Element ‘apDiv2’ in the same location as ‘apDiv1’ by clicking the ‘Draw AP Div’ button . Set the size and margins of ‘apDiv2’ Element to be the same as ‘apDiv1’ so that they can overlap with each other.Note that the ‘z-index’ of ‘apDiv2’ is ‘2’, which means it is one layer above ‘apDiv1’.
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11. Select the image banner_central.jpg from the Learning CD ROM as the background of the ‘apDiv2’ Element.
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12. Repeat steps 10 to 11 to create the third AP element ‘apDiv3’ which overlaps with ‘apDiv1’ and ‘apDiv2’. Select banner_ferry.jpg as its background image.
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Animating AP Elements in Timeline13. Select ‘Window’ → ‘Timelines’ to display the Timeline.
With ‘apDiv3’ Element visible, drag it to the Timeline. It will last 15 frames by default.
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14. Drag the last frame (which is a keyframe) to Frame 60, so that the animated banner will last for 4 seconds.
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15. Drag the Elements ‘apDiv2’ and ‘apDiv1’ to the Timeline and increase the number of frames for each Element to 60.
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16. In the Timeline, select Frame 1. In the Tag Inspector, select the ‘Appear/Fade’ behavior.
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17. Select the ‘apDiv3’ as the target element and set the duration of the ‘Appear’ effect to ‘0’ millisecond.
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18. A mark will be displayed in Frame 1 and the ‘Appear/Fade’ behavior is displayed in the Tag Inspector.
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19. In the Timeline, select Frame 20 and add the following ‘Appear/Fade’ behavior:
Element : apDiv3Effect : FadeDuration : 0 millisecondElement : apDiv2Effect : AppearDuration : 0 millisecond
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20. In the Timeline, select Frame 40 and add the following ‘Appear/Fade’ behavior:
Element : apDiv2Effect : FadeDuration : 0 millisecondElement : apDiv1Effect : AppearDuration : 0 millisecond
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21. In the Timeline, select Frame 60 and add the following ‘Appear/Fade’ behavior:
Element : apDiv1Effect : FadeDuration : 0 millisecond
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22. Check both the ‘Autoplay’ and ‘Loop’ check boxes.
23. Save and test the web page in a browser. The images in the banner should rotate one by one.
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22. Check both the ‘Autoplay’ and ‘Loop’ check boxes.
23. Save and test the web page in a browser. The images in the banner should rotate one by one.
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