iPhone Button

• The iPhone Button's visual aspect is simple and sleek
• Can be used replacing the links in a web page by a more semantic and aesthetic control
• Has been developed as a Dreamweaver extension, that fact simplifies insertion and does not require any further web programming knowledge for its use.
• The element is functional inclusive with the Javascript disable in the browser

The requirements for using iPhone Button are minimal, you only need Adobe Dreamweaver MX 2004 or newer (including Dreamweaver CS4 and CS5).

To install iPhone Button, like any other Adobe Dreamweaver extension, you will require the Adobe Extension Manager, which is distributed along with Dreamweaver. Run the "Install" option in Adobe Extension Manager and enter the path to the downloaded .mxp file.

iPhone Button creates two new entries in the "Insert> iPhone Elements" menu of Dreamweaver, "Insert iPhone Button" and "Insert iPhone Button Push"; through these new options you can insert an iPhone Button (similar to the buttons on the iPhone top bar) or an iPhone Push Button, respectively (Fig. 1). The same occurs via the "iPhone Elements" insertion bar, which creates two new entries, one for insertion of the iPhone Button and the other for the iPhone Push Button (Fig. 2)

Fig.1 Menu options

Fig.2 Insert bar options

Use

To insert iPhone Button into a website you will need to load the webpage in the editor mode in Adobe Dreamweaver. Then place the cursor at the location where you want to insert iPhone Button and click "Insert iPhone Button" or "Insert iPhone Button Push" either on the toolbar or the "Insert" menu. iPhone Button will show a setup window described below.

Interface

Button Text: Enter the text to be shown on the button.

Link: Select or enter the website or bookmark to be redirected to when button is pressed.

Target: Select or enter where to open the linked website.

Title: Enter text to be displayed when mouse is positioned over the button.

Button Position: Select whether the button will be right, left or central. The design of the button will depend on this option. A button identified as left shows a design where the left side is the most representative, so does the button identified as a right. In the case of button defined as central, both sides are equally representative.

Button Color: In the current version of the product we offer two possible colors for each of the buttons: blue and black for common buttons, blue and gray for push buttons. These colors have been selected by being the most widely used within the iPhone design guidelines.

Access key: Enter a "letter" that will allow a shortcut to the button. In Windows it is done by hitting Alt+"letter"; in Mac, Ctrl+"letter" when in a browser.

Tab index: Enter a number for the tab order.

Once an iPhone Button is inserted in the website, if you want to edit some of its visual features, such as position or color, select the button (more precisely, the <SPAN> label within the "iphone-button-mark" class) and change the desired option in the Property inspector.

To modify the link, target or any other button options, simply click on the link found inside and modify its properties in the property inspector.

Remember that at the end, both the modified web page and the folder structure generated by the extension should be updated on your Web server.