Ajax represents the current state-of-the-art and, being able to produce such interactive pages without having to touch the JavaScript, CSS and XML on which the technology is built, shows how far a code-free approach can go.Templates - A template is a fully designed page or site that you can use as a starting point for your own pages or sites. Using the new Multi-Layout Region tool, you can now add accordions, tabbed panels and toggle panes that the end user can interact with. Thankfully, NetObjects Fusion 11 provides a far more practical and subtle example of components and dynamic handling in action with its new Ajax support. However, NetObjects seems most excited by its new range of tacky Flash components, which include animated pseudo-3D letters, numbers and symbols. Some of these, such as guest pages, password protection and video holders, are clearly useful on occasion, as is the new support for Google Sitemaps and Analytics, and the ability to incorporate RSS feeds. Layout, text and images remain the foundation of each page but, over the years, NetObjects Fusion has added support for a host of other web objects through its component framework. You can also quickly add images with the Picture tool, converting to JPEG or GIF, resizing and cropping as necessary. The resulting code isn’t just cleaner, more accessible and quicker to render in modern browsers, it’s also more search-engine friendly.Īfter you’ve created the basic layout for your page, formatting your text is simple, using the Word-style toolbar or Text Properties panel. However, there’s now a new option to take advantage of CSS-positioning and semantic XHTML during output – though this is so well hidden that most users are unlikely to come across it. Disappointingly, it still does – at least by default. The downside of this approach was always that it inevitably led to some ugly and inefficient code reliant on nested tables and transparent GIFs. Creating a layout is simple, as you just drag out text boxes onscreen as you would in a wysiwyg DTP app, leaving the program to take care of the necessary code when you come to publish. Once you’ve finished with Site view, double-clicking on your icon – or now multiple icons – opens your pages as tabs in Page view ready for editing. To reorganise your site, simply drag-and-drop your page icons and the navigation automatically updates. This has always been one of NetObject Fusion’s greatest strengths, as it lets you add and organise the pages of your site visually, leaving the program to create all the necessary navigation as text links or graphical rollovers. Once you’ve chosen your basic design, you structure your site in Site view.
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