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Buy AdCarousel is a 2 action suite. AdCarousel is used to display a different banner ad (or any graphic) each time the page loads. You can define up to 12 ads. AdCarouselLinks gives designers the option of assigning a URL link for each ad.

AdCarousel has a unique method to ensure that each ad in your line-up has an equal chance to be seen. Ad exposure is based on 5 second intervals. This means that every 5 seconds the ad cue is rotated one slot. Equality of exposure is based on the assumption that users will access your site at random times giving each ad an equal turn at bat.

See SuperAdCarousel if you need more than 12 ads.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy AdGoRound is used to cycle through a combinatioin of image and SWF ads while the page is up. You can have up to 10 different ad locations per page. Each location has its own list of ads. Different exposure times can be set for each ad giving you more advertising rate flexibility. Each ad can also have its own link.

AdGoRound can automatically display different ads for advertisers on different days of the week.

You can limit visitor time on the ad page in case they abandon their browser for a long time. This is useful if you use a No-Cache instruction on your page. It will keep your server from repeatedly uploading the same ads and falsely driving up your Ad hit rate.

AdGoRound is different than AdCarousel. AdCarousel places a new ad on the page each time the page is loaded, and it stays there for the duration. AdGoRound cycles through several ads while the page is up. You can also start the Ad rotation from either the first ad in the list or from a random pick.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy AutoScroll is a powerful scroll area manager that can handle up to 4 scrolling areas on a page. The contents can be a combination of text and graphics. Scrolling can be up, down, left or right.

Scrolling can be in Auto, Semi-auto or Manual mode. You have full control over setting pauses for reader convenience Or give the reader control over scrolling.

There's also a fantastic Panorama (wrap-around) scrolling area feature. A must for setting up scrolling navigation images. Click on Panorama demo below to see it in action.

AutoScroll is great for setting up scrolling News Flashes, Price Lists, Scrolling Menu Links, Clickable Thumbnail Images, or when you have a lot to say in a small space.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy BrowserDirect 3.0 for Dreamweaver is used to redirect virtually any browser to its own URL including touch screen devices like iPhones and iPads. The built in list includes Mozilla, Gecko, NN, IE, AOL Safari, OmniWeb Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome and Mobile devices.

BrowserDirect can test for Platform, Browser name & version, Language and Operating system. Browsers that don't meet any of the tests can be redirected to an optional URL for incompatible browsers. You can also narrow the browser search by testing for version numbers that are Equal to, Greater than etc. See the Options window.

BrowserDirect 2.2.2 for GoLive can not ttest for touch screen devices

Base Compatibility:
All browsers that process Javascript.

Buy BrowserSwitch checks for the browser make and version and whether the browser is on a MAC, Windows or WebTV platform. There is support for Netscape, Explorer, AOL, Safari, OmniWeb, Opera, Firefox and WebTV browsers from versions 1 to versions 9.

Browsers that comply or don’t comply with the check can be optionally sent to alternate URLs.

Base Compatibility:
All browsers that process Javascript.

Buy BusinessCard can display one or more scanned business cards in the center, either corner or at a custom screen location. Each card has a "Print Card" link which lets the user print your card to their printer. You can select optional crop marks to help users trim the cards. Ideal for corporate contact pages.

Cautions:
This Action prints business cards fairly close to the standard 3 1/2" x 2". Some slight discrepancies might exist in the final printed size due to browsers printing inefficiencies.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 5, Internet Explorer 5.

Buy Chameleon can be used to change the background colors of up to 12 layers with one Action, at the same time. Click on a linked text or graphic and watch all your boxes change color. Great for color coordinating sets of boxes associated with a menu item.

Cautions:
Navigator 4 will only set the background color behind the text and not the background color of the entire floating box, unless you define the Clipping Rectangle pixel depth and width for the box.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy ChangeOnDate_DW is used to schedule the display of pages, background images, images and image links on certain dates. For example you can schedule new images on May 1, 2008, then on May 2, 2008 and so on. Or you can simply let the images run until another change is scheduled. Great for automating the changing of holiday images or Banner Ads etc

ChangeOnDate can schedule content using the date and time of the user’s computer or by calculating the date and time for any time zone.

ChangeOnDate can handle some of your daily website maintenance, reliably and inexpensively. It's cheaper than borscht.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy ColorCarousel is used to display a different background image or color each time the page loads, or it can rotate through backgrounds while the page is being displayed. It can also change backgrounds by clicking a link on the page. ColorCarousel handles all the image pre-caching during rotation so images snap on when the background changes.

You can change the backgrounds of pages, frames or AP Divs (layers). There is also an option to start with a random pick.

Cautions:
Navigator 4 provides marginal support for background colors of floating boxes. IE 5.0.2 Mac seems to have problems refreshing Layers (floating boxes) when the page background is changed.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy ColorCop can be used as a Head Action to change images on your page based on the color resolution of the user’s screen. Up to 6 images can be changed at one time. ColorCop can also be used in tandem for more images.

Tests for equals to, greater than, less than, greater than or equal to and less than or equal to 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit color depth. Lets you display images that are optimized for a 256, thousands or millions of colors.

See the special custom version.

Base Compatibility:

Buy CookieMaster can manipulate Cookies in several ways. Here are some of the features:

A Cookie is simply a string of data that you store on the visitor’s computer, which can be accessed by any page on your website. Think of it as a way of sharing information among your pages.

Data can be pre-entered by you, or it can be gathered from a form that a user fills out, or from hidden input fields, or a combination of all three. You can set new Cookies, append data to existing ones, or join several Cookies together. This data can then be submitted to a CGI script, eMailed back to you for visual inspection, or sent to a custom Javascript Extension for processing.

For example... CookieMaster can be used to set up a Shopping Cart page.

Sophisticated use of Cookies used to be out of the reach of small Website owners. CookieMaster changes that. It's Cookie Object Model coupled with your custom server-side scripts gives you all the power you need to take advantage of Cookies.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy CyberGallery images can be displayed one at a time by clicking a thumbnail image, or displayed as a Slide Show with a full set of on-screen controls.

There's are many software products that prepare gallery pages for the Web, but CyberGallery is different. It was designed for professionals who want styling control over how each product or image is presented.

There are options to help you customize backgrounds and borders of each image and their caption boxes. You have full typographical control of caption text. Display multi-line, HTML coded captions that are stored in a separate file for easy editing. Ideal for detailed product information, or use the Alt text of thumbnails for simple captions. Place captions below, above, inside bottom, inside top or centred inside your images. There is also an optional Zip Notice with custom HTML formatted text, that pops up from the bottom of each image.

Images can be centred in the browser window or positioned at Top Left co-ordinates. Select from several animated opening and closing effects. There's also an option to dim backgroud clutter so your images pop right off the page.

Professional photographers and artists can select from several degrees of image copying protection. The full blown protection will stop file copying, screen captures, screen photography, or grabbing images from a Web Archive file.

The Dreamweaver version has extra features like CSS3 Corner Radius and Drop Shadow options.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6

Buy CopyrightNotice A helpful Behavior that has four ways to display Copyright reminders. This is worth looking at if you're displaying copyright images.

It's almost impossible to stop people from grabbing proprietary images off your site. Sometimes the best you can do is put up a subtle notice that your material is protected by Copyright.

CopyrightNotice gives you four ways to put up notices. Large cursor-driven flyouts with detailed copyright information. A miniature flyout that appears beneath the cursor and can hold custom text depending what the user is pointing at. A Zip flyout that scrolls up from the bottom of the image with the same custom text. Display a semi-transparent Watermark over the display image when a user mouses-over or clicks it... just as a reminder.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy CopyrightYear Use this Action on every page where you display a copyright notice and it will keep the year portion of your copyright text up to date automatically. You start by placing your initial copyright notice in a Layer or a GoLive CS Layour text box then let CopyrightYear take care of the updating from then on.

CopyrightYear can also be used to display the current date in a Layer or GoLive CS text box. The date is taken from the user's computer.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 5.

Buy CustomFit is used to resize and reposition the browser window, and customize the size and position of floating boxes, based on the resolution of the user’s screen. Size and positions can be expressed as pixels or percentages.

CustomFit also displays a pop-up menu with 7 of the most common screen resolutions and an option to enter custom resolutions. You can also select the type of match... equal to, less than, greater than etc.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy DailyTimedWindow is used to automatically open a new window and display a different page any day of the week. All you have to do is prepare your pages in advance and have them ready on your server. DailyTimedWindow will automatically display the pages you want on the days you want. The new window also has an optional count down timer which will close the window after a specified time. Ideal for displaying daily info like Calendar of Events, Price Lists.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy DateImage is used to schedule the display of images on certain dates. For example you can schedule new images on May 1, 2005, then on May 2, 2005 and so on. Or you can simply let the images run until another change is scheduled. Great for automating the changing of holiday images or Banner Ads etc.

The DateLink Action can also be used with DateImage to schedule new URL links for the new images.

Cautions:
DateImage gets the present date and time from the user’s computer. If that date or time is wrong, the wrong graphics might be displayed. There are also time zone differences to consider.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy DateLink is used to schedule new clickable links for images on certain dates. For example you can schedule new links on May 1, 2005, then on May 2, 2005 and so on. Or you can simply let the links run until another link change is scheduled. Great for automatically changing image clickthroughs.

The DateImage Action can also be used with DateLink to schedule the display of new images for the new URL links.

Cautions:
DateLink gets the present date and time from the user’s computer. If that date or time is wrong, the wrong URL might be loaded. There are also time zone differences to consider.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy DatePage is used to schedule the display of HTML pages on certain dates. For example you can schedule a new page to display on May 1, 2005, then another on May 2, 2005 and so on. Or you can simply let a page run until another new page is scheduled to display. Set it and forget it!

Cautions:
DatePage gets the present date and time from the user’s computer. If that date or time is wrong, the wrong URL might be loaded. There are also time zone considerations.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy DisableFormObjects gives you more control over how Forms are filled in.

When you design a Form, all the Form objects - text fields, radio buttons, check boxes etc. - are automatically enabled or set to read/write unless you manually change their state. In most cases users leave Form objects in their default state.

However, you might want to stop applicants from filling in or selecting certain parts of the Form depending on what button or box they checked, or what text field they filled in. On the other hand, you might want them to fill in parts of the Form. This kind of control can help you gather more accurate customer information and help prevent inaccurate or spoiled submissions.
You also have the option to alter the state of fields on or between dates (Dreamweaver only)

DisableFormObjects can help you control how information is gathered, and reduce the number of validation round-trips to the server, or save you time hand correcting data.

Team this Action with VerifyForm to help you gather even more accurate customer data.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 5.

Buy DownUnder is another way to attract ad dollars.

When you display an Ad or URL as a Pop-Under, it's loaded in a separate browser window that immediately pops under your main window so it won't annoy your visitors. At some point the visitor will take a look at the window out of curiosity.

The big difference between Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders is that Pop-Unders load under the current browser window, so they don’t interrupt or annoy your visitors. Your viewers are the ones who take the initiative. Many agree that Pop-Unders generate more readership than pop-ups.

DownUnder can also pop-up the new window if you need this effect.

Includes many window sizing and positioning options.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.01, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy Favikon

Browsers always display a plain generic icon beside URLs in the Address bar and Bookmark lists. Yaaaawn! Why not stand out in the crowd? Replace that generic icon with your own FAVICON and be seen!

This new Favikon Action does not create icons, you have to do that on your own, but it can help you set up favicon pages without tediously hand stripping HTML or Javascript.

Originally browsers would only recognize an icon if it was a Windows ico file, and named favicon.ico, and stored in the root directory of your website.

This is changing. Some newer browsers now support more graphic formats for icons like PNG, BMP, GIF, and let you select the file name yourself, and store icons anywhere in your website. You can take full advantage of this flexibility and select different icon files for different pages using Favikon.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy FileTabs_DW is used to set up a radio button, rollover image menu system.

Create navigation menus that look like "File Tabs" or "thumbnail images", and act like radio buttons. Click one rollover tab and it stays highlighted while the new page appears in the browser window or frame. Click another tab and it lights up, and the previous tab dims. Supports 2 or 3 state rollover effects.

File tab menus can be set up in a frameset or iFrame layout. In a Frameset, one frame holds the menu and another holds the content. In an iFrame layout, each page has an iFrame linked to the file tab menu page. Menu changes only need to be made to the menu page. Works like a template.

FileTabs can set tab properties like background and text color, rounded corners, drop shadows and linear blends. Unselected tabs can be set to semi-transparent. Demo1Demo2Thumbnail demo (FileTabs was used with DW's Swap Image Behavior).

Compatible with FireFox 3.6+, IE9*, .Safari 4+. Chrome 2+ Opera 11.10, OmniWeb 5.11*.

* Linear blends not available yet.

**Not available for GoLive 9.

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Buy FilmStrip_DW set is used to design scrolling, FilmStrip navigation menus.

The new AutoScroll, FrameSwapnRoll and SwapFrameSet Behaviors were designed to work together as the new "FilmStrip" menu set.

When a thumbnail in the scrolling strip is clicked, a new product page is loaded into the browser's window or frame, and the thumbnail for this page is centered and highlighted.

iFrames on each product page are linked to the same FilmStrip menu. When you add or remove pages, you only have to edit one menu instead of one on every product page. A tremendous time saver.

FilmStrip menus also work in a frameset layout where the menu is in one frame and the product page in another. More information.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy FlipFlop is used to control the visibility of optionally Timed floating boxes. This Action can also change the background colors of boxes and control boxes that are nested or in other frames.

FlipFlop is great for posting Timed Sticky Notes inside the user’s browser window. Notes can be timed to appear or disappear.

Cautions:
Navigator 4 is supported in this Action but this browser has limited support for floating box properties. The Toggle Visibility does not work properly with IE4, and will only work properly with IE5+ and NN6+ when the StylesToDiv Action is used as a Head Action on the page containing the boxes.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy Formatter is used to create a Comma, Tab or Carriage Return delimited data string from all the fields in your Form. The data string can be eMailed or sent directly to a URL. Tab and Comma delimited strings are suitable for importing directly into a data base or spread sheet. A real time saver.

This Action handles text fields and text areas, check boxes, radio buttons, single and multiple selection lists and hidden fields. Formatter is especially useful to those who don’t have access to a server-side Form processing CGI script. Just copy and paste your eMailed forms to a text file, then import them all at once.

Formatter can also be used to perform simple arithmetic using the numeric values in text fields, radio buttons, check boxes and select-one lists. The final result can be formatted to different currency formats for display purposes. Formatter can also be used as a companion Action to only perform arithmatic.

The Dreamweaver version of this Behavior comes with a complimentary Behavior named EasyCheck that can validate user entries before Formatter sends the form.

Cautions:
Most browsers will only send Forms to an eMail address using the user's default eMail client. Formatter also uses a “mailto:” method that opens the user's default Mail Client, then strips the data string into the body of the eMail.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy FrameCop is used on key pages. When that page loads it will check the contents of up to five other frames and load the correct pages if they're not already loaded. FrameCop can also be used in a nested frame layout.

When a user clicks the Back button, only the contents of the last frame that was loaded changes. How can you keep your pages from getting all mixed-up in a frameset layout?

Cautions:
This Action should not be used as an Action Headitem, on any page of a frameset that is loading for the first time. It might report a “File not found” error if the Action starts running before all the pages are loaded.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy FramesetMaster replaces the contents of the present page with an Action generated frameset layout.

You can set the frame sizes, border colors etc. It then populates each frame with a URL. There are eight customizable, 3 frame layouts to choose from. This Action can also resize the frameset window by pixels, percentage of screen size or maximum screen size.

FramesetMaster can replace dozens of frameset pages.

Cautions:
Please read the cautions in the pdf file.

Base Compatibility: - FramesetMaster
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy FrameSwapnRoll will rollover or swap images across frames or iFrames. FrameSwapnRoll_DW will do even more. See below.

Design challenge:
You have many product pages. Each page has a long scrolling strip of rollover images that act as a navigation menu. When a rollover in this strip is clicked, a new product page should load and the rollover for this page should stay highlighted and in view.

Using this FrameSwapnRoll_DW solution, you can include an iFrame on each product page that is linked to the same navigation menu of rollover images. When you add a new product page, you'll only have to edit one navigation menu, instead of one on every product page. A tremendous time saver.

FrameSwapnRoll can also kill the rollover effect so the clicked image stays highlighted and positioned in full view. Scrolling to the image can be done by jumping to an Anchor or by scrolling to the NAME/ID of the image object in the strip.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy FramesetWindow can be used to replace dozens of custom frameset pages by using one or two pre-designed template pages. You can populate the frames in these templates on the fly. A great way to link frame content to menu selections.

Cautions:
If FramesetWindow tries to close the parent window when the browser’s history list includes URLs other than the Template page, Netscape will ask for the user’s permission to close the window. Internet Explorer doesn’t seem to ask.

Base Compatibility: - FramesetWindow
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy FrameTemplate can load a pre-designed blank template page into another frame when a user clicks on a link in one of the frames. This template page can have blank image placeholders, pre-designed content in hidden floating boxes, and blank floating boxes ready to receive HTML content. Use this cool Action to customize content to menu selections, and reduce the number of pages needed in a site.

Cautions:
Will not load the new content into a frame on the template page. The page must be a single window. This Action requires that you change one or more HTML tags in the source view, by hand. Although not difficult, some familiarity with source HTML code would make you more comfortable doing this.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy HideAllLayers will hide or show all the floating boxes on a page at once, or any layer including all its nested layers. You can search for layer names, or all layers whose names contains a string of characters. This Action will give you total control over the visibility of floating boxes in your layout.

Caution:
Will not work with floating boxes that are in nested frames.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy HideHistory is used to erase the current page’s URL from the browser’s history list after a user clicks a URL link. This will prevent the user from returning to the previous page when they click the browser’s Back button. The previous URL will also be erased from the browser’s history pull-down menu.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 3.

Buy iSwapSWF This Behavior first checks to see if your page is running on an Apple hand held device. It can then replace one or more SWF files on the page with an image or another compatible media file such as a QuickTime MPEG-4. Media files depend on the browser having the proper plug-in. iPad, iPhone and iPod users will see the new image instead of the Flash file. The only restriction is: the Flash file must be nested inside an AP Div (GoLive Layer).

Caution:
Not all media files have been tested with iSwapSWF. QuickTime MPEG-4 files seen to work fine. Media files might behave differenty on iPhones, iPads and iPods than they do in computer browsers.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy ImageClickFlop lets you design up to 20 navigation button stacks that can have up to 16 buttons in the stack. Each time the user clicks a button it displays the next button in the stack. Each button can also have a rollover effect. When a user finds a button of interest they just click a "Go" link and they're taken to the page. This one is a great space saver.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

Buy Load6Pack is used as a Head Item Action to cache up to 6 images in the background while the HTML page is loading. Caching will make your rollover images "Snap on" because they'll be in the Browser's Cache and won't have to be downloaded when they're called for. You can even use Load6Pack in tandem - one after the other - to Cache even more images.

Cautions:
Caching many large images can take some time. It's always a good idea do a little arithmetic before attempting to preload too many large images.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3.0.1, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy MagicLantern is a 2 Action suite. It can be used to flip through as many layers (floating boxes) as you like. Layers can contain any content and be placed anywhere on the page. Far more flexible than a slide show using just images.

MagicLantern is used to select the floating boxes in the slide show. MagicLanternSkip is used to set up the Forward and Backward controls.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy MagicStage is a 2 Action suite that is used to flip forward or backward through up to 12 animated GoLive scenes per Action. Use it in tandem for more scenes.

MagicStage is used to select which scenes will be run and in what order. MagicStageSkip is used to set up the Forward and Backward controls.

Use this Action to set up an animated slide show or for other great special effects.

Cautions:
This Action calls GoLive script to control the starting and stopping of animated scenes. This Action requires that the "NN6 Support" files be installed in GoLive 5.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4.

Buy MailPrep can be used in place of a simple mailto: link on your page. MailPrep will open the user’s default Mail application then automatically fill in the optional to:, subject:, cc:, bcc: and body:. This ensures a consistent header for your contact eMail.

Can also be used to set up the eMail Header for VerifyForm.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 3

Buy MailURL makes it convenient for users to eMail the URL of the page they are on, to a friend or associate. You have the option to include the current URL or a default URL in the eMail. The URL can be sent directly when the link is clicked, or you can display a customized recipient info window for the user to fill in.

This Action can handle URLs that have Search Parameters - the string of characters following a question mark. There is also an option to redirect the user to a URL after they have sent the eMail.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4

Buy MenuMaster is used to design multi level Pop-up menus. Simply set up your menu components using layes, then use MenuMaster to easily turn them into a Pop-up menu system. Pop-ups can be several levels deep. Other features include options to keep your menu centered or in place when visitors resize or scroll their browser windows.

MenuMaster can control several menus on a page - one at a time.

The GoLive version of MenuMaster can run animated GoLive scenes that you prepared with GoLive's scene editor. A great way to include attention grabbing menus to your page. This feature requires that the "NN6 Support" files be installed in GoLive 5.

See MultiLink for building multi-level menus using images instead of layers, or see ScrollMenu for building animated menus.

Cautions:
Earlier Browsers like NN4 offer limited support for the floating text box properties. IE4 MAC seems to work fine.

Base Compatibility:
Netscape 6, Internet Explorer 6.

more great Actions

AdCarousel
AdGoRound
AutoScroll
BrowserDirect
BrowserSwitch
BusinessCard
Chameleon
ChangeOnDate
ColorCarousel
ColorCop
CookieMaster
CyberGallery
CopyrightNotice
CopyrightYear
CustomFit
DaiiyTimedWindow
DateImage
DateLink
Datepage
DisableFormObjects
DownUnder
Favikon
FileTabs
FilmStrip
FlipFlop
Formatter
FrameCop
FramesetMaster
FrameSwapnRoll
FramesetWindow
FrameTemplate
HideAllLayers
HideHistory
ImageClickFlop
iSwapSWF
Load6Pack
MagicLantern
MagicStage
MailPrep
MailURL
MenuMaster