Re: Front Page nav question
I think the way you have it with the one way arrow might work. But my firm belief is the harder you make for your visitor to figure out what she/he is supposed to do the easier you make it for him/her to go elsewhere.
Is the one way sign a coded message e.g. religious? Or is there a specific reason for the sign that his visitors will understand?
If the one way is not justified, perhaps a simple invitation, C'mon In.
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Bill, I would time the page to jump to the real deal after your animation finishes. That leaves not doubt of where to go.
Acorn
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gwpriester
I think the way you have it with the one way arrow might work. But my firm belief is the harder you make for your visitor to figure out what she/he is supposed to do the easier you make it for him/her to go elsewhere.
Is the one way sign a coded message e.g. religious? Or is there a specific reason for the sign that his visitors will understand?
If the one way is not justified, perhaps a simple invitation, C'mon In.
I’ve been trying to th8nk of a phrase like that for about three days. Thanks Gary
Re: Front Page nav question
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Acorn
Bill, I would time the page to jump to the real deal after your animation finishes. That leaves not doubt of where to go.
Acorn
Now you’re talking! And you realize what my next question is …….
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bwood
Now you’re talking! And you realize what my next question is …….
Bill, simplest is put the front page first as 'index' and you main site page as 'splash'. In the the Splash page head put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url='index.htm(l)'" /> and Preview. The Splash page will display for 5 second then automatically jump to the index page. The (l) depends if you publish .htm or .html.
The advantage is those who save the website URL without a page bypass the Splash altogether.
You could set the whole graphic to also have a jump Link to index to short-circuit the process.
It might be better to set up the index page with a Splash pop-up that appears on load and closes on X click.
Here too, you could make the whole Splash have a Close Link.
The advantage is the index page content is loading behind the scenes (sort of).
I would go further and set up LocalStorage to only show the Splash a limited number of times.
Add a Hide the Splash button to also control this.
You could add a Splash it! button on index to reset this.
Acorn
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I'll just leave this here.
>>> index (auzlink.net.au) <<<
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Chris M
Magic as usual Chris!
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Chris M
Chris, question as always. I’m not understanding the length of the first page. Let’s say the page is w-1000, and length is a hero size, I’ll end up with white space after the image. If the first page is simply one image with text and a button do I stretch that image vertically to let’s say h=1000 or something. Mobile is no problem, but desktop and tablet page height is a problem. Thx
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bwood
Chris, question as always. I’m not understanding the length of the first page. Let’s say the page is w-1000, and length is a hero size, I’ll end up with white space after the image. If the first page is simply one image with text and a button do I stretch that image vertically to let’s say h=1000 or something. Mobile is no problem, but desktop and tablet page height is a problem. Thx
Bill, technically you could make the image the Pasteboard image with no Page background and set it up to fill the browser.
I find this does not work.
My approach for a simple web page:
- Create a layer - !Cover
- Put a large image in !Cover:
- Give it an Image Filename
- Select it and add a Link to open the !Cover layer
- Hide !Cover
- Add the following Website Code Body:
Code:
<style>
html {
background-image: url('index_html_files/music.webp');
height: 100vh;
background-size: cover;
}
</style>
Do change the filename to what you have used.
Acorn
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technically you could make the image the Pasteboard image with no Page background and set it up to fill the browser.
I find this does not work.
Rather frustrating Acorn, it works in v19 but not in the current Pro+ version; somewhat a backwards step and should be flagged to Xara. I discovered this a few days ago; I had to go back to v19 to set the pasteboard and then reopen it in Pro +, which does work, even with 5K screens
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Initiostar
Rather frustrating Acorn, it works in v19 but not in the current Pro+ version; somewhat a backwards step and should be flagged to Xara. I discovered this a few days ago; I had to go back to v19 to set the pasteboard and then reopen it in Pro +, which does work, even with 5K screens
gary, I thought it was me!
Yes, do flag it to Xara.
Acorn
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bwood
Chris, question as always. I’m not understanding the length of the first page. Let’s say the page is w-1000, and length is a hero size, I’ll end up with white space after the image. If the first page is simply one image with text and a button do I stretch that image vertically to let’s say h=1000 or something. Mobile is no problem, but desktop and tablet page height is a problem. Thx
Yes, that's exactly what I did. It depends on the picture though, sometimes it crops too much, or you lose something vital.
Make the image stretch to width, resize by dragging the handles down. Make everything a link to the second page. Stretched objects can't have a link, a 99% transparent rectangle on top of the image solves that problem. I put an animation on the road sign when the mouse rolls over because it looks like a button, and I was reinforcing that thought.
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Initiostar
Rather frustrating Acorn, it works in v19 but not in the current Pro+ version
This was my first plan of attack...fill browser window. I thought it was the image. Spent all of 2 seconds wondering, then shrugged and moved on. Your mind is obviously a lot more inquisitive than mine
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