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Using multimedia
Some of the most exciting pages on the web use multimedia items such as sound, movies or animation. If you have multimedia items
that you wish to display on the web, it can often be the case that you can add them to your page in Freeway in the same way as adding
text or graphics—by creating boxes on the page to hold them or by dragging and dropping the file onto your page.
Some multimedia content requires additional “plug-in” software in the browser to properly display, or sometimes the format used for
the multimedia files may be completely unsupported—so it is important to understand the current level of support in browsers for each
type of multimedia file so you they can be made to work on the widest range of device for the vast majority of web visitors.
Multimedia content in Freeway is often referred to as “plug-in” content and it is important to note that plug-in content cannot be
previewed in Freeway’s Page view. However, some can be seen working in Preview mode, which is based on the same “engine” that
drives Apple’s Safari browser, but sometimes the functionality has been “sandboxed” and will not play until it has been uploaded live to
the web unless you edit the code first (by inserting http: before the // in the embed code supplied by YouTube for example).
When playing certain kinds of multimedia content you can specify additional or optional parameters using Actions to control how it
displays, and any such Actions will be listed in the appropriate section of this chapter.
If you use very large video or audio files on your web page, it is generally a good idea to let the visitor know what they will encounter
on the page before it occurs. This gives visitors the freedom to decide in advance if they wish to view it or not, as it can be frustrating to
wait for a very long time to download over a slow connection.
In the past it was often necessary to offer alternative options for certain multimedia files so the visitor would be able to choose their
preferred file type to use. More recently, however, support in modern browsers is far more universal, and it is now possible to include
automatic “fallback” options so that if one file type is not supported, another file type will be offered for the visitor’s browser to use.
Note 1: Many modern browsers ship with recent multimedia plug-ins. However, while many include Flash plug-ins as standard,
many PC browsers do not include the QuickTime plug-in. It is important to take this into account when considering including
QuickTime-based multimedia content in your designs.
Note 2: Plug-in content will always play on top of other items on the page, even if other layered items are above the box
item containing the plug-in content. If you want to prevent this default behavior (which can only be done in Freeway Pro, you
might want to try selecting the item you want to appear above the multimedia content (such as a CSS Menu’s drop-down sub-
menu), go to Item>Extended, click on the “Div style” tab, then enter the Name/Value pair of z-index and 99 to force the item
to display above the plug-in content. If you still find that the plug-in content is appearing above other items on your page, Pro
users can select the item on the page again and add another Name/Value pair—this time using wmode and transparent.
Types of multimedia content
HTML5 video
Cross-browser support for HTML5 video is now very good—and it should be used for offering video content wherever possible. The
reason it is considered to be the best method for offering video is because it offers alternative file formats to be used if HTML5 is not
supported (such as in Firefox for Mac and PC) and also because it can be made to fall back to Flash for older browsers and some mobile
devices.
How to offer a movie file as HTML5 video
The first thing you need to do is to save your movie file so it is encoded as H.264 and saved as either an .mp4 or .m4v file. If the file
was not offered in that format you can usually convert it very quickly by using a free video converter application such as Miro Video
Converter http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/ or by using a free online service such as the one at OnlineConvert.com http://video.
online-convert.com/convert-to-mp4 . Both of these will let you
convert many different video file types to MP4.
Once you have your .mp4 or .m4v file you can drag and drop it
on the Freeway page and then, with the item selected, look at the
options in the Item Output Settings tab of the Inspector.
• Type: If you have your page set to HTML5 or XHTML5, this
popup will be set to Video by default, which means that the video
will be output by Freeway as HTML5 video. If you have the page
set to any other HTML level (HTML 4.01 Transitional, XHTML 1.0
Transitional, etc.) the popup will display as QuickTime because the
page will not validate correctly unless it has an HTML5 declaration
in the head tag.
Working with multimedia
- Freeway 1
- Reference 1
- Contents 3
- Freeway Reference: Contents 10
- Getting started 12
- Workflow 13
- Creating a new site document 15
- Resources 16
- Deciding on a page size 17
- Layout options 17
- CSS inflow items 18
- Setting the HTML level 19
- HTML page alignment 20
- Saving and opening files 21
- Automatic backups 22
- Creating a new template 23
- Installing a template 23
- Shift-Command-4 24
- Working with Pages 25
- Viewing and changing pages 26
- Working with master pages 27
- Use Master Content 30
- Use Master Settings 30
- Use Master Actions 30
- Use Master Children 30
- Other “Use Master” options 31
- Creating a new Master page 32
- Renaming a Master page 32
- Deleting a Master page 32
- Modifying Site pages 35
- Tiling the background image 36
- Working with page folders 37
- Color labels 38
- Rulers, guides, and grids 40
- Ruler guides 41
- Margins and grids 42
- Working with Items 43
- Graphic items 44
- Map area items 44
- HTML5 Section Elements 44
- Creating items 45
- Drawing items 46
- Manipulating items 47
- Moving items 51
- Reshaping paths 52
- Transforming items 53
- Creating layer items 55
- Item General panel 56
- Item Output panel 56
- 3. Click OK 57
- Group command 58
- How grouping works 59
- Distributing items 60
- Integrating items and text 60
- Creating horizontal rules 61
- Inflow items 63
- Selecting inflow items 64
- Resizing inflow items 64
- Padding and margins 65
- Padding and item positions 66
- Applying margins 66
- Background colors 67
- Background color filters 68
- Background images 69
- Borders in Freeway Pro 70
- Graphic border filters 72
- Borders in Freeway Express 73
- Border effect (HTML items) 76
- Shadow effect 76
- Glow effect 77
- Emboss effect 77
- Scatter effect 77
- Lighting 77
- Shape effects 78
- Crack shape 79
- Working with Text 80
- Editing text 82
- Working with lists 83
- Checking spelling 84
- Exporting text 85
- Language encoding 85
- Issues that affect HTML text 86
- Graphic text 87
- Typography settings 88
- Missing fonts 88
- Leading 90
- Alignment 90
- Indents 90
- Word and letter spacing 90
- Text direction 91
- Vertical text 91
- Working with Graphics 92
- Graphic dialog box 94
- Resizing graphics 95
- Managing imported graphics 97
- The Resources dialog box 98
- File names 99
- Export formats 99
- PNG graphics 101
- Combined images 102
- Slicing graphics 103
- Animated GIFs 105
- Pass-through graphics 105
- Working with multimedia 106
- The Video Extras Action 107
- Audio file 108
- QuickTime 108
- The QuickTime Extras Action 109
- Import dialog 110
- The Flash Extras Action 111
- The FLV Player Action 111
- Java applets 112
- Hyperlinks and Anchors 113
- Types of hyperlink 114
- Creating hyperlinks 114
- Quick Links 116
- Defining the target window 117
- Image maps 118
- Hyperlink styles 118
- Managing links 119
- Anchors 120
- To remove an anchor 121
- Linking to anchors 121
- Email links 122
- The CSS Menus Action 122
- Main Menu Settings options 123
- Previewing your CSS Menu 124
- CSS Menu troubleshooting tips 124
- The Text Link Style Action 125
- Meta Tags and Search Engines 126
- Defining a new meta tag 127
- Search Engines 128
- Page content 129
- Noframes content 129
- Important points 129
- Shared databases 129
- The Site Mapper Action 130
- Submitting your Sitemap 131
- Publishing and Uploading 132
- HTML layout 133
- Previewing in a browser 134
- Publishing the site 135
- Uploading 136
- Setting the upload options 137
- Upload options for FTP 137
- Upload options for File Copy 138
- To upload your site 139
- Managing your site 140
- Creating relative links 141
- Dedicated FTP tools 142
- Freeway and IE Compatibility 142
- Working with Color 144
- Color panels 145
- Web-safe Colors panel 146
- New Color 146
- Color Picker button 146
- Applying color 147
- Applying color to text 148
- Applying color to a box 148
- None and Knockout 148
- Knockout 149
- Creating a new color 149
- Duplicating a color 149
- Importing colors 150
- Other… from 151
- Styling Text 152
- What are styles? 153
- HTML styles 154
- Graphic styles 155
- Freeway’s default styles 155
- Paragraph <p> styles 156
- <h> styles 156
- Styles on items 157
- <p> tag 158
- Defining styles 159
- Edit Styles dialog 160
- Character Attributes 161
- Background 162
- Effect filters 163
- Graphic shape effects 164
- Paragraph attributes 164
- Thinking ahead with styles 166
- Making global changes 166
- Working with styles 167
- FW Pro only 168
- Applying a style 169
- Renaming a style 169
- Importing styles 169
- Creating a style 171
- Using the style 172
- Using tags for accessibility 173
- Learning more 174
- Styles Inspector 174
- Page level styles 175
- Item level styles 175
- Text level styles 176
- Editing styles 176
- Working with tables 177
- Modifying tables 178
- Positioning tables 178
- Resizing tables 179
- To select two or more cells 180
- To select the table 180
- Deleting cell content 181
- Empty cells 182
- Resizing rows and columns 182
- Changing table borders 182
- Changing cell spacing 183
- Changing cell padding 183
- Changing cell alignment 183
- Joining and splitting cells 184
- Copy/pasting table data 185
- Nesting inflow items 186
- Working with frames 187
- Benefits of using frames 188
- How to create frameset pages 190
- Power Tip: Using the 193
- Sizing frames 194
- Targeting links 196
- Working with forms 198
- Input/Field item options 199
- Text Area 200
- Checkbox 200
- Radio Button 201
- Radio button options 202
- Button options 203
- Form Labels 204
- Setting up a form manually 205
- Form setup 206
- Hidden fields 207
- Troubleshooting forms 208
- State/Prov List 209
- Validate Form Suite 209
- Country List 209
- Form Element Styler 209
- Form Element CSS 209
- Accessibility 210
- Other accessibility features 211
- Adding markup code in Freeway 212
- Value field 213
- Minimized Extended Attributes 213
- To import HTML content 214
- The Crowbar Action 215
- The Protaculous Action 215
- Freeway Actions 216
- Duplicate Actions 217
- Appendices 221
- Appendix 1 222
- Freeway Reference: Appendices 223
- Appendix 2 231
- Appendix 3 243
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