## What actions do

Actions are items that you can add to your Web pages to perform extra functions or create dynamic effects. Each action adds special HTML or JavaScript instructions to the page to achieve results that would normally require sophisticated programming on your part. Here are some examples of what actions can do:

### Dynamic buttons and text

You can create dynamic buttons that change appearance when the user moves the mouse over them in the browser; this is called a rollover. Rollovers make the site visually dynamic and give the user useful feedback about where to click on the page.

### Slave images and layers

The slave image and layer actions allow you to define items on a page that are shown or hidden when the user points to a graphic, or clicks a button or link.

### Pop-up windows

A pop-up window can be opened automatically, or when the user clicks a graphic, button, or link. Pop-up windows are useful for providing subsidiary information relating to the main page.

### Animation

The animation actions let you define events that happen automatically as the user is viewing the Web page, such as scrolling text, or animated graphics.

### Navigation

The navigation actions allow you to provide alternative ways of navigating around your site instead of standard hyperlinks, including a navigation bar, site map, navigation map, and menu bar.

### Image effects

Freeway provides a range of image effects that you can apply directly to graphics on the site, including blur, sharpen, color, brightness, and contrast corrections.

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