Born February 4th, 1954, in Wolfpoint Montana, Master Don Mills has spent most all of his life in the state of Montana, save his military time in Germany and various other parts of the United States. In March of 1988 Don first walked into Master Dennis Kirby's kung fu studio and immediately fell in love with the art. Spending three plus hours per day, four nights per week for his first three years at the studio, his advancement went quickly. The workouts, usually with upper belt students, were brutal and at times Don wondered why he was paying someone to beat him up. We he obtained the rank of Brown Belt, Don began teaching and has for the past 9 years without fail. His dedication and love of the art has brought Don to the level of Master, a rank rarely achieved in any art.
Master Don Mills personifies Montana. He is an avid sportsman and hunter with an Elk that is in the "Pope and Young" record books. Don is also a horseman and lives in the remote Northfork region of the Flathead Valley surrounded by wilderness on the outskirts of Glacier National Park. When Don is not riding horses, mending fences, hunting, fishing or teaching Kung Fu, he can often be found riding his Harley Davidson along the scenic highways of the Northwest. Currently he is employed with the Flathead County Parks and Recreation Department where he can be found keeping the local parks a place where people go to enjoy Montana's great outdoors.
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A tutorial for Michael Ahgren's Scroll Area Auto Action - get it here! |
This variation of the action does not work in Safari.What does it do? If the text on the right isn't scrolling yet, you need to wait for the page to finish loading. The steps for placing the two layers and defining them in the inspector are exactly the same as for the Scroll Area Action - just don't bother with the stuff about placing arrows to trigger the action. Steps repeated here: |
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Things to remember What to do first |
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| 1 Put a floating box on your page and to make it look like mine, make it 300 px wide by 250 px high. Name it "container" without the quotes. Drag the golden box to the top left corner of your page, or putting it as the very last thing, after all content, also works. Put the FB itself wherever you like. In Golive 6 you'll find the floating box here: |  |
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| 2 Select the FB (floating box), hit the staircase icon, and select "container" in the css editor that appears. |  |
| 3 Enter values in the position tab of the Inspector (the diamond-ish tab) like this:
The arrows show the important parts - width and height the correct way round, 'Rect' selected, overflow set to hidden. The z-index doesn't seem to make any difference but if you have trouble you might try setting it to 1. |
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| 4 Put another floating box inside the first. Name it 'scroll' without quotes. (Put the 2nd golden box inside the first FB). To make it like mine, set the width to 250 px, height to auto:
(Of course you can use whatever name you like as long as it you use one word, no spaces or special characters, and lower case is recommended. Just substitute the name you used in these instructions). |
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| 5 Put text or an image into the inner FB. If it's text, here's where you'll find out you really must leave the height of the inner FB as auto, otherwise the text will over flow. It will anyway in layout view, which can make life difficult - it's often easier to design the rest of your page first so you aren't trying to work 'through' the text. If you're using an image instead, set the height of this inner FB to be the height of your image and make the width match too. | |
| 6 Now find a head action in the Smart tab of the Objects palette and put it in the Head section of your page.
The one second from the right below shows how the icon will change once you define the action. |
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| 7 Select the action and look in the Inspector. Via the dropdown, find your way to Michael's action and set everything up.
You must select both your FBs by name, and check 'up' if you want the text to scroll up - you might want to check 'down' if that looks better for images. As you can see, left and right are both possible as well. You'll see I have set the pixels/step setting to 2 and the speed to 20. The speed will vary in different browsers, and you can't do anything about that. If you view this page in different browsers, you'll get the idea and you can experiment with your own settings. I seem to disagree with Michael here, I put the scrolling layer just inside the container layer, not just outside. You might want to experiment. If you do it as Michaels suggests, you can get rid of the 'jump' between repeats ... example here |
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| 8 Done - test in browser.
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