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Layer ordering in website documents
If your website document has mouseover effects, popup layers and perhaps even mouseover effects on
those popup layers, there are some important rules you need to follow in terms of how you order the
layers in your document. If you don't follow these ordering rules, you may find that some of the effects
don't work.
Considering the layers in turn from background to foreground (which is working upwards in the Page &
Layer Gallery
), first you must have all the static layers. These are layers which are always visible and are not used as
popups. In most designs there will only be one ? the "MouseOff" layer. But some designs may have
several, in which case they must be the first layers in the layer stack.
Next comes the MouseOver layer, if there are mouseover effects on the static layer(s). This contains the
mouseover states for all your mouseover buttons. This must be followed by the "MouseDown" layer, if
you have mousedown effects on the static layer(s).
Next you may have a popup layer. If the objects on this popup layer have mouseover effects, then the
next layer following the popup layer must be the layer holding those effects. It must have a name that
begins with "MouseOver", E.g. "MouseOverPopup1". And then if the popup layer also has mousedown
effects, a layer whose name begins with "MouseDown" must follow containing those effects.
Then you can have another popup layer, followed again by any mouseover and mousedown layers for
that popup layer. And so on - you can have as many popup layers as you like.
So to summarise the above, in general the layer ordering needs to be as indicated by the following list,
which is shown in the same order as displayed by the Page & Layer Gallery
(foreground to background). All layers are optional and the layer names can be anything you like, except
for the characters shown in Bold, which identify the special mouseover and mousedown layers.
MouseDown popup n
MouseOver popup n
PopUp layer n
...
MouseDown popup 1
MouseOver popup 1
Popup layer 1
MouseDown
MouseOver
Static layer n
...
Static layer 2
MouseOff
Note that you only need to be concerned with these ordering rules if you are building complex pages with
multiple popup effects! If you are just using the template designs provided in the Designs Gallery
, you should not have any problems with layer ordering on your website.
Moving Objects Between Layers
There are several ways to move objects between layers. First select the object or objects you want to
move, then;

Cut the object ("Ctrl + X" or right click and Cut). Ensure the target layer is the current layer
(shown with , click the layer if it's not) and then right click and choose Paste or Paste in Place
. Note that if you cut or copy multiple items that are on different layers, the layer structure is
preserved when you paste. Items are pasted to the same layer they were copied/cut from,
instead of being pasted to the current layer. If you want to paste all such items to the current
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