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Freeway Reference: Hyperlinks and Anchors

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Image maps

Rather than creating a link on an entire graphic, it is possible to create links so that the visitor is taken to a different destination depending

on which part of the graphic is clicked. This is called an image map. Freeway uses map area items to define such “hot-spots”; these are

shown with purple outlines and cannot hold content or be given any fill or border. You draw map areas using the map area drawing tools

in the Toolbar or Tools palette.

Note: Freeway Express does not have a separate Tools palette.

Creating an image map

Image maps are easy to define within Freeway by creating hot-spots over the areas of

the graphic you wish to link to somewhere else.

1. Import a graphic and position and size it as you wish.

2. Draw a map area item over each part of the graphic you wish to be a hot-spot.

3. Assign each map area item a unique hyperlink as described previously.

You can create hotspots using one of the three map area tools: rectangle, oval, and

path. Freeway creates client-side image maps, which are fully supported by most

modern browsers.

Note: If you apply a link to a graphic item that is exported as part of a

combined image, the link will be recreated using an image map in the output.

Hyperlink styles

When hyperlinks are displayed on HTML text in a web browser, they are normally shown in color and underlined to set them apart

from normal text that is not linked. If you do not specify otherwise, the link colors set in the browser will be used.

There are four colors and styles that may be displayed for any piece of linked HTML text. These are: (1) normal: the color and style of

links that have yet to be visited, (2) visited: the color and style of links that have already been visited, (3) hover: the color and style of

links when the mouse cursor is hovering over them, and (4) active: the color and style of links when they are clicked on. Web browsers

remember which pages have been viewed in the past, and by changing the color of visited links they can show visitors what is yet to be

explored.

It is important that link colors contrast clearly against the page background or the visitor may find it hard to read the text or difficult to

make out where the links on a page are located.

The default colors used by web browsers typically stand out against a white or gray page background but do not show up well against,

for example, a dark or black background. You must use your judgement, and when you feel that it is necessary, specify your own colors

to be used for linked text. However, users tend to expect hyperlinks to be blue and underlined.

Setting hyperlink styles for a page

You can set the styles for each of the four link states using the Links section in the Page Appearance panel of the Inspector palette. To

ensure that the same styles are used across a range of pages, you can set this on the master page used by those pages.

On the page or master page in question:

1. Display the Page Appearance panel in the Inspector palette. Click on the disclosure triangle next to Links to show this

section, if it is not already open.

The Links section of the

Inspector palette is not

disclosed by default. Click on

the disclosure triangle next to

the

Links label to show the

options. Freeway Pro (left);

Freeway Express (right).

Map areas can be

drawn as rectangles,

ovals, or paths.

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