opening a new window
Sometimes its useful to have a link you've placed in a page open a new window rather than showing the new page in the current window. If all you want is for the link to open a new window with the attributes of the current browser window, you only need to make one small change in the Inspector.
Start the link the usual way and then click on the menu to the right of the Target box in the Text Inspector and choose _blank.
On the other hand, sometimes you might want the window to be a particular size with fewer controls. An example of this would be if you wanted to spotlight an event and place it in a smaller window that floats on top of the current window. Making this happen is still easy but does take a few extra steps.
1. Start your link the usual way by highlighting the text or image and then, in the Inspector palette, enter the address or the path for the page.
3. Bring up the Actions palette (in GoLive CS - version 7 - it's the Rollovers and Actions palette) from the Window menu. Click on Mouse Click and click the New Action button (at the bottom of the Actions section.
4. From the Action popup menu, pull down to Link and select Open Window from the submenu.
5. In the box next to Link enter the same URL you used in step 1.
6. Set the configuration with the choices in the bottom of the window:
Target - set if this new page is part of a frames page.
Size - the width and height of the new window in pixels.
Resize - do you want the user to be able to resize the new window?
Scroll - do you want the new window to have scroll bars?
Status - do you want the new window to show the status bar?
Menu - do you want the normal menus to show?
Tools - do you want the browser tool bar to show?
Dir. - do you want the show the standard directory buttons?
Loc. - do you want the location (URL) bar to show?
Your Actions palette should look similar to the one below.
