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I'm exporting CSS layers and Fireworks slices as the source. There is a hot
spot covering a sliced image. The hotspot has a URL tied to the properties of
the hotspot. But no HREFs in HTML.

So, I tried no hotspot but URLs tied to the properties of each slice I want
hot. Again, no href's written into the HTML

Add them in Dreamweaver? Is this just a mockup you're making?

Joey,
I know I can add them in Dreamweaver, why are they not being written to the
Fireworks HTML? In the browser preview they are. The preview uses tables.
You are implying there is a bug. I miss Image Ready

Montemedia wrote:
> Joey,
> I know I can add them in Dreamweaver, why are they not being written to the
> Fireworks HTML? In the browser preview they are. The preview uses tables.
> You are implying there is a bug. I miss Image Ready
>

There is no bug. I do interactive click throughs all the time using FW.
I just marked an assignment from a group of 18 students who did the same
thing, each one successful.

Provide a file so we can more accurately diagnose what the problem is.
Otherwise, we're all just guessing.

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.... the Fireworks PNG file is here: http://www.montemedia.net/Other/splash.zip
---- the preview writes tables into the HTML along with the proper HREF (#).
The hotspot is actually "hot". I want to export CSS, Fireworks slices as the
source, and have it write Dreamweaver XHTML with ".html" as the prefered
extension.

When I export the file as described above, no HREF is written, at all - just
the the CSS and proper layout. Maybe there is an extension missing, or
something that writes the CSS? Is that possible?

There's a lot of things setup poorly with this, but I assume you're trying to
build something other than a production website right? At least in HTML you
cant have a single hotspot span across multiple images. Hotspots have been
deprecated from XHTML anyway, so why bother trying this in xhtml/css in the
first place?

If you're trying to have the entire image link to the same URL via the
hotspot, why do you have it broken into so many pieces?

Nice painting by the way, I did a double-take when I finally saw the eyes ;-)

.... Joey, I don't know what ya mean by a "production" website. I'm building a
brocure style website for an artist. The file is just a simple splash page.

I know not to span hotspots across multiple slices, and all that. I've
attached URLs to individual slices, no slices - you name it, I've tried it.
That is not the issue. The issue is, why is Fireworks not writing any HREF
code, at all - none - zero - nada! It will write it just fine for a preview in
the browser, but exporting the file results in absolutely no HREF in the HTML.

What am I overlooking?

Due to the intricate nature of that painting, you're going to have to live with
a higher file size (I got it down to 75k by turning off sharpen color edges and
turning down the compression to 80). Cutting it up into 20 or more chunks like
that just adds a bunch of markup. Hell, how many dial-up users buy art anyway?

As to why it doesn't add the HREFs: I'll be the first to admit I'm not 100%
sure, mostly due to the fact I use Fireworks to make graphics exclusively.
Though I have heard of other people having issues with Fireworks stripping URLS
from exported slices.

Jim & Linda can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the
assumption that the HTML/CSS output in Fireworks was for prototyping web
mockups, not for creating production HTML.

If I was trying to make that splash page of yours work I would just take that
solid image, all 80-100K of it, export it out as a single JPEG, insert it into
the page in Dreamweaver, and set a simple HREF to the page I wanted to link to.
I'm not sure why you're using hotspots at all? If you want to have only the
name/logo at the top link, just draw the hotspot on via Dreamweaver.

The concept of intro pages is widely considered outdated, and unfriendly to
the user these days anyway. The best solution would be to take the user right
to the content they're looking for anyway ;-)