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The MouseDown button effect occurs when the visitor actually clicks any of the buttons. For our mouse down effect, the text will slightly bulge out. Kind of like it was flattened by the cursor. We'll use one of the new Live Effects Tool effects, Fisheye Perspective, which can be applied to vector objects such as our buttons, as well as bitmap objects.

Select the HOME button on the MouseDown layer.

Switch to the Live Effects Tool (Ctrl F2). Press New > and from the drop down list select Deformation Filter > Fisheye Perspective.

Key in or move the slider to 20. This produces a slight bulge to the text. Press the red X to close the window.

Apply this Fisheye Perspective effect to the other four buttons.

Select all five MouseDown buttons, copy them to the Clipboard (Ctrl c) and Edit > Paste in Place on the MouseDown layer on the other two pages.

There is one important step left before we publish our website, and that is to add a page title. A page Title is not visible to the visitor but has two important functions, it helps identify the page to search engines, and it appears on a list when the visitor book marks the page.

From the File menu, select Document Info... Add your page title in the Comment: text entry box. Make your title descriptive and try to include words that will help search engines find your site.

The page title will be added to each page of your website between the TITLE tags.

All that is left at this point is to export the website and preview it in your web browser.