Need help with custom navigation bar

**FluffyGoo** · 05 March 2014, 10:18 PM

Thanks!
It finally worked after I changed the "button" to the front layer.

What I was trying to do was make it so that when you hovered over the text a button appeared over it.
For some reason it won't let you create a navigation bar without a button or box grouped with text though.

Thanks for all the help!

**FluffyGoo** · 05 March 2014, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Hmmm? Quite a mess you created.

OK the attached works.

Here's what I did.

I am not sure how you went about this but the process is much simpler.

Create and group one button (Home in this case).

Copy the group, select the MouseOver layer and Paste in Place. At this point you have only two buttons, a MouseOff and a MouseOver.

With both button state layers visible, marquee select both buttons. The status bar will show two groups on two layers selected.

From the Arrange menu, select Apply Soft Group. Now you have one button with a MouseOff and MouseOver state.

With this soft group selected, NOW select the Create Nav Bar tool.

Check Adjust Button Widths to Labels. Un-check All Buttons the Same Width.

Check Site Navigation Bar (this adds the navigation bar to all pages you have created).

I added 6 pixels Button Spacing.

Perfect!
It finally worked after I moved the "button" to the front layer.

I was attempting to create a navigation bar of only text so that the mouse-effect would bring up a button over the text.
It won't let you create a navigation bar without grouping a button and text together though.

Thanks for all the help!

**gwpriester** · 06 March 2014, 01:00 AM

The rectangle or other shape, can be the same color as the page or transparent. As long as it is grouped with the text you can make a button and nav bar.

**FluffyGoo** · 06 March 2014, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

The rectangle or other shape, can be the same color as the page or transparent. As long as it is grouped with the text you can make a button and nav bar.

Perfect! Thanks again for all the help.

**roly** · 06 March 2014, 10:52 PM

Hello to all, just want to thank FluffyGoo for starting this thread and Gary for post #10. Three years ago I had created a nav bar with an earlier version of web designer but I was never able to recreate it until Gary's instructions in post number 10. It has now all come together.

Thanks again

Roly