Interprogram communication promises to streamline the work of the Webmaster like never
before??”and that promise is already beginning to be fulfilled with existing Dreamweaver commands.
Creating a Web photo album
Online catalogs and other sites often depend on imagery to sell their products. Full-scale product shots can
be large and time-consuming to download, so it??™s not uncommon for Web designers to display a thumbnail
of the images instead. If the viewer wants to see more detail, clicking the thumbnail loads the full-sized
image. Although it??™s not difficult to save a scaled-down version of an image in a graphics program and link
the two in a Web layout program, creating page after page of such images is an overwhelming chore. The
Dreamweaver/Fireworks interoperability offers a way to automate this tedious task.
The Dreamweaver Create Web Photo Album command examines any user-specified folder of images and
then uses Fireworks to scale the graphics to a set size. When the scaling is finished, the thumbnail graphics
are brought into a Dreamweaver table, complete with links to a series of pages with the full-sized images.
Create Web Photo Album is an excellent example of the potential that Dreamweaver and Fireworks intercommunication
offers.
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