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Pop-up layer
You can add any content you like to a separate layer on your page and have that content shown as a
pop-up only when your visitor clicks on a link. For example you could add some descriptive text about a
photo on your web page and have that text only shown to the user if they click on the photo.
To add a popup layer, first you need to add the layer itself using the
Page & Layer Gallery
and add your pop-up content to that layer.
See the Page & Layer Galler
y chapter for full details. Then you can select the layer from the layer list provided next to the "Pop-up
layer" option.
You can also add a transition effect which is applied when the layer appears. In the Page & Layer
Gallery, open the layer properties so that you can apply a transition directly to a layer
to achieve an animated effect when the layer contents appear.
Now when a visitor clicks on your object, the layer contents appear! By default, clicking anywhere else
on the page makes the pop-up disappear again. But you can make the pop-up layer stay up until it's
explicitly closed by the viewer. Just unselect the Close pop-up automatically
checkbox in the Layer properties dialog. Then a close button is included in the top right of the pop-up,
and it stays on screen until the close button is pressed.
Note that you can also get to the Layer properties by clicking the "Settings…" button next to the pop-up
layer option in the Link dialog.
Note that all the content on the pop-up layer is loaded as soon as the visitor visits your page. So if you
want to provide a lot of pop-up photos, use the Pop-up Photo
feature described below instead.
The "Getting Started" chapter
includes some step by step instructions on adding layer pop-ups.
Pop-up photo
This option gives you a very easy way to add pop-up photos and other photo gallery features to your
website, without adding any layers! Simply import your photo and use the Selector Tool to scale it right
down so it appears as just a small photo thumbnail on your webpage. Then select it and choose this "
Pop-up photo
" option.
Click the Settings button next to this option to go to the Image tab, where you can set the size of the
pop-up photo, add a title and caption, and choose from many other options. See the Image tab section
below
for details. Selecting the pop-up photo option on this Link tab, also selects the pop-up photo checkbox
on the Image tab ? both turn on the same pop-up behavior.
Use common website link colors
This option lets you choose how the selected text link should be displayed. It is selected by default,
meaning that the text link will show with the link color you have defined for the whole website. You can
set this color on the Website tab (see Website Tab section).
If you uncheck this option, then the selected text link will keep the color that you give it on the page. So
you can give different links different colors if desired.
Open link in
This option does nothing if either of the "Pop-up layer" or "Pop-up photo" link options are selected. But
for other links it allows you to tell the web browser how the target web page should be loaded. By
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