Page transitions

[scruffy.thedog]

Just added page transitions to a new site for the first time - Is it me? My page transitions (fade through back) don't work when you have a drop down menu they work off the heading nav bar fine. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong? Same in ff as ie9

Scruffy

[gwpriester]

Page transitions seem to work best when the pages are fairly small and normally load very quickly.

I had some problems with Google Chrome users whose browsers would freeze when trying to transition to a page with an embedded video.

But I am not sure about problems with drop down menus. Are you referring to sub menus created with the Navigation Bar Tool?

[scruffy.thedog]

yes sub menus that appear when you double click the nav bar they dont work

no videos on the pages just a few pop up pictures

scruffy

[gwpriester]

Can you document this? Step by step. I'll make sure someone at Xara sees this post.

[scruffy.thedog]

Have u tried this gary and got the same result?

Here goes

I have a nav bar with 4 buttons created in wdp6 on two of the buttons there is a sub menu
button 1 home page used drop down top to bottom no problem off the main button
button 2 has one sub menu wanted fade to back for this page i have this effect off the main button and on the one sub menu - the main button effect works the sub menu does not
button 3 has 4 sub menus main button is linked to# so not in use the rest are fade to back none of the fade to back works in this sub menu
button 4 link to another subfolder so no transiton selcted
Any ideas checked layer transitions and none are in evidence

Scruffy

[bb2]

Hi can you provide an example file displaying the problem please?

Many thanks

[scruffy.thedog]

Reply from xara -

Currently, pages that are linked to from a sub menu cannot invoke transitions that are applied to a page being linked to.

I have added this example to the open log for the development team to look at this.

Top level nav bars cannot have a transition applied to the link either, but will invoke a transition which is applied to the page.

Kind regards, xara

scruffy
All a bit grim really

[covoxer]

Keep in mind that page transitions were implemented first of all for the presentations. They are of limited use for a regular websites (unlike layer transitions which are very useful indeed). And there's no point of having navbar in the presentation.

[scruffy.thedog]

Hi john

To me as a a js/jq virgin whats the difference between an effect of a button on a presentation made in xara and a button on a website i.e nav button. If web transitions are to be used would it make sense then to use the nav bars to link to layers and have in effect a 1 page website made with multiple layers now....is there a work round using the nav bar links at your end in the pipeline?

Scruffy