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Freeway Reference: Working with Pages

Master page concepts and good working practices

Almost every site on the web has common items and settings which help to brand

the site’s pages using the same header bar (perhaps with a logo or distinctive colored

background), along with a common page background and browser background color,

page width, default page height, etc., to give them a consistent appearance.

Some sites may use a very similar layout—perhaps in terms of headings used on each

page or using the same column structure—for particular groups of pages within the

site. For example, there may be a Home page, About Us page and a Contact page

which use a particular appearance, but this may be different to how, for example,

pages for a company’s products need to be laid out. If this is the case, you can set up

multiple Master pages to create pages used in each distinctive section of your site.

You do need to bear in mind, however, that if you later need to make an edit to a

common item such as a header item (perhaps the client has changed their telephone

number), then each Master page will need to be changed individually—so you might

want to take that into account before setting up many different Masters.

By planning ahead you can very easily work out how many different Master pages

you might need for the site, and how they will differ. It is also at this stage that you

will probably have some idea about how you are going to use a navigation menu

so it can be incorporated into the Master page (with main menus

and sub-menus), and how the text and graphic content will be

positioned on each page.

How much you decide to use on your Master page in terms of

common content is entirely up to you and how you prefer to work.

Some people limit Master content to just the main header bar and

navigation menu, whereas other prefer to place empty placeholder

items on their Master pages which can be used to import unique

text or graphic content on each individual page —and this is why

you need to consider the concepts of Master items and how those

items and Master pages are controlled by their Master links.

A good example of how much content to use on a Master is the

Using Freeway tutorial file (see the Master page in the screenshot on

the right) where you can see that only the items which are common

to all pages have been used on the Master.

If you haven’t already built the Using Freeway tutorial site, we

strongly recommend that you do so. By building the tutorial site

you will be taken through all of the basic steps of creating and

building a website from scratch in Freeway, and this is a far better

way to learn Freeway than simply reading through a series of

articles online or from a manual. You can find a link to download

the Using Freeway guide PDF (which contains the tutorial) at

http://www.softpress.com/help/ (under Manuals) along with all the

resources you will need to build the tutorial site yourself. Either

print off the tutorial chapter or read through the PDF as you build

the tutorial site.

The next screenshot (right) shows the Welcome page of the Using

Freeway tutorial site, which shows the Master items used on the

Master page along with the unique items that have also been placed

on that page. Note that the rulers are now in the normal light grey

color because you are viewing a Site page.

Looking at the items on the page in the Freeway interface it is not

immediately clear which items are Master items and which are

unique items on the Site page, but you can usually tell by selecting

an item to see the name it has been given by Freeway. All items

drawn on a Master page or placed there from the Insert menu will

have the letter “m” in front of the item’s name. However, you

need to be aware that if a graphic or multimedia resource has been

imported into an item (or dragged and dropped onto the page), the

item will be given the imported file’s name rather than being given a

name with “m” in front.

Another way to tell that an item is a Master item is to see if a name

surrounded by square brackets appears immediately after the item’s

name in the Site Panel list. Inside the square brackets the name

refers to the name of that item on the Master page, so even if you

rename the item on the site page the original Master name will still

display within the square brackets.

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