site nav bars

[Peebs24]

I would create two separate sites. Have the two small flag icons which will link to the appropriate site.

If your site is mysite.com, create a sub-folder and name it mysite.com/french Publish your French version to this sub-folder as it is a new website. So it will have an index.htm(l), a index_htm(l)_files folder and all the HTML pages.

Hi Gary,
When I first read this I thought that I understood! Now, when I come to try it out I realise that I don't. On my hard disk I have two folders - HTML_fr and and HTML_eng. These each contain all the files and folder to make a site. Then there is a 3rd folder containing the files for a single page - my Index page which contains two links One to the French version and one to the english version.
My question is:-
A .................on the single page, how do I link the two links - french & English - to their respective sites?
B ................. How do I organise the folders for uploading onto my website?
As I understood your post, it is possible to have all three - the link page, the French site and the English site all on the same website - I hope!!
I bow to your greater knowledge and plead for help!
many thanks,

[csehz]

Assumingly so you have one .xar file and trying to have the two languages in one file?

Maybe you would consider to have two .xar files, an eng and a fr version, where the navigation bars can be repeating objects.

At the publishing then uploading one .xar file to the domain root directory, that would be the main the default language version, and the second one to the subfolder.

[Peebs24]

Assumingly so you have one .xar file and trying to have the two languages in one file?

Maybe you would consider to have two .xar files, an eng and a fr version, where the navigation bars can be repeating objects.

At the publishing then uploading one .xar file to the domain root directory, that would be the main the default language version, and the second one to the subfolder.

Hi csehz,
Thanks for your reply I actually have 3 .xar files exported into three html folders at the moment. What I would like if possible is to have the smaller single page - which has two text links -ENGLISH VERSION and VERSION FRANCAIS - this will be my index file. Then have the other two separate larger files - one for each language connected to the links on the index page.
What I am not sure of is A) how to address the links in the index page and B) How to set up the subfolders on my site.
If it is not possible to have 2 subfolders then I suppose that I could collapse the index file into one of the language files but my questions A & B would still apply.
Man thanks for your help.

[csehz]

Hi Peebs24,

A) If there are 3 .xar files then I think the links should be entered on the index page in Xara file in the pattern domain/subfolder/page.html, so for example http://www.mydomain.com/en/page_en.htm

B) Relating the subfolders that should be created by Xara with the upload, at the publishing entering the subfolder name and it will publish there, so concretely en or fr should be written there

[Peebs24]

Hi Peebs24,

A) If there are 3 .xar files then I think the links should be entered on the index page in Xara file in the pattern domain/subfolder/page.html, so for example http://www.mydomain.com/en/page_en.htm

B) Relating the subfolders that should be created by Xara with the upload, at the publishing entering the subfolder name and it will publish there, so concretely en or fr should be written there

Hi CSEHZ,
Thanks for your reply - I am still a bit confused:

A) if all the subfolders are on the same website is it necessary to put the full path in the links from the index page - http://www.mydomain.com/en/page_en.htmhttp://www.mydomain.com/en/page_en.htm ?
B) I use Cute Prf8 to upload rather than the inbuilt Publish. Just how do I structure the upload with the other folders?

Sorry to be so thick this morning but thanks for your help.

[csehz]

A) My first association was to put absolute links, but yes probably that would work also through relative links so relative to the location of the index.html. That needs some testing probably but sure has to work

http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/linking.php

B) If that is with third party FTP tool, I would create subfolders /en/ and /fr/ with that program on the domain and would copy all your HTML_en and HTML_fr folders from the computer to there.

In summary there would be an index page in the root as http://mydomain/index.html as a single file, containing entry links to folders and start files http://mydomain/en/page_en.html and http://mydomain/fr/page_fr.html

[Peebs24]

Hi CSEHZ,
Still confused and the site is not working!!

My website - www.chezmoi.pw - has the following:-

A) Folder - html_eng which contains the index_eng_files PLUS the .htm page files. The top file is index_eng.htm
B) Folder - html_fr which has the same equivalent files for the french site. The top file is index_fr.htm
C) Folder - index_htm_files
D) File - index.htm (this is my language selection page)

index.htm has two links - one for each language.
The links are:
http://www.chezmoi.pw/html_fr/index_fr.htm
http://www.chezmoi.pw/html_eng/index_eng.htm

When I go to the website the index page opens OK but both links produce a 404 Page not found error.

Help please! What am I doing wrong??
best regards,

[steve.ledger]

Because your linking is wrong

<span class="xr_tc xr_s1" style="left: -71px; top: -14px; width: 143px;"><a href="index_htm_files/http://www.chezmoi.pw/html_eng/index_eng.htm" ◄◄ this is wrong!

What are you actually entering into the Link properties???
You should be using relative links

[Peebs24]

Because your linking is wrong

<span class="xr_tc xr_s1" style="left: -71px; top: -14px; width: 143px;"><a href="index_htm_files/http://www.chezmoi.pw/html_eng/index_eng.htm" ◄◄ this is wrong!

What are you actually entering into the Link properties???
You should be using relative links

Hi Sledger,

What i am ACTUALLY entering into the links is:- http://www.chezmoi.pw/html_fr/index_fr.htm for the French link and http://www.chezmoi.pw/html_eng/index_eng.htm for the English link. I do not understand why it is going to the Index_htm_files folder. I guess I don't know enough about this. Please advise further.
Regards,

[steve.ledger]

Please advise further.
Regards,

Try using relative links