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I have tried to create relative links (E.g. /home.html), but when I mouse off the URL field in the design tool, it changes it from a forward slash to a backslash, and causes my links to look like this: http://my.site/menu/file:////home.html.
I tried looking through the online help system, but didn't see anything addressing this. Any help is appreciated.
I have tried to create relative links (E.g. /home.html), but when I mouse off the URL field in the design tool, it changes it from a forward slash to a backslash, and causes my links to look like this: http://my.site/menu/file:////home.html.
I tried looking through the online help system, but didn't see anything addressing this. Any help is appreciated.
Relative works fine for me... look for the relative links under button 1
http://www.draginet.com/loricanon/index.html
../index.html
index.html
I'm not sure I used the correct wording in my question. When I say relative link, I mean based from the webroot, and not from the current folder.
For example, I usually create a navigation menu that has links to various sections from the root of the site, like so:
Home = /index.html
Stuff = /stuff
Work = /stuff/work/foo.html
This way, the links work regardless of what folder you're currently in.
If you could take a moment and open the link above, you see a tool bar. Under button 1, there are several links. the last two are relative links...
index.html
and
../index.html
The first one takes you to where you are, the second takes you to the root index page. So, yes relative links do work in MM. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
PS... Welcome to talkgraphics. I try to help, but I am a smart A$$... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Just ask anyone here.
Yes, I saw the two links.
However, I still don't think you understand what I am asking.
The ../index.html link will take you to the root index page, but if I put that in an include, and it is on a page that's three folders deep, it no longer takes you to the root index. I need /index.html, not ../index.html. In other words, the links need to be relative to the root, not the current page.
Thanks for your help.
Hi LqdEngineer,
Did you try ummm 3 dots? .../index.html. If that doesn't work, try a base tag. <base href=http://www.disisroot.com >
Nope, unfortunately neither of those methods work either. I e-mailed support, hopefully they will be able to clarify whether MM supports this functionality.
How Many Levels of nested directories do you do?
I don't know specifically how many I will use. I am just trying not to lock myself into using only X amount of nested folders. If I come back in a year and decide to add a new subfolder, the menu shouldn't have to be remade, or if I want to use a similar menu on another site, the same applies.
I just don't see how you could add the menu to a page via an include and not need to have the links be relative to something other than the current URL, since you really have no idea what the current URL is going to be.
Well... I was thinking. to put pages into sub level directories and sub-sublevel directories is not very wise. Every time you add or delete a page you will have to rebuild the menu for that directory. If you have four levels then you will have four separate directories.
It is far better to put you graphics in as many subdirectories as you desire and keep all your HTML for the root. Then you could usea nd call just one menu.
Personally, I have had about 5000 HTML pages in the root with no problem.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
It prevents you from organizing the site by grouping related pages together. I'm still not sure you completely understand my request, because you reference multiple menus. I only use a single menu for the entire site, and include it in all pages.
I don't want to have multiple menus, and have to update each one individually if I want to make a change, because I can use an include file and change the whole site's menu with that single file.
>> It is far better to put you graphics in as many subdirectories as you desire and keep all your HTML for the root. Then you could usea nd call just one menu.
I have one menu now. I thought I'd give Menu Maker a shot, but it seems to be the only program I've used that can't support a link from the root. I figured since it's part of the W3 HTML spec, MM would support it.
hi LqdEngineer,
A computer does not need to have files nested in subdirectories to work better, only people need that. You will also find that it makes uploading changes a royal pain when you nest pages in subdirectories. An example of what I am saying is here... BHD There are about 1500 pages in the root and it takes about 10 minutes to update all the pages in the site (22 Meg).
As an example. Create 10 subdirectories and 5 sub-sub directories in each subdirectory. For a total of 50 directories. Create 10 blank pages in each sub-sub directory and 5 pages in each directory,for a total of 550 pages.
Now upload all these to the sever...
After that...
change every other page to say "hi". Now try to upload all your changes 1 directory at a time. You will still be posting changes tommorrow!
On the other hand... If the modified files where all in the root, all you have to do is sort by date, and upload the latest ones only... 3 minutes tops...
Do not make things harder than they need be.
Maybe, then, that doesn't make sense to me because I don't develop locally. I make my changes on the server, and I have never really had a need to update more than a few pages at any given time. My server is on my LAN, so throughput is a non-issue for me anyway.
It is much easier for me to manage pages using folders, because if I need to change something, I can open the folder, Ctrl-A and open all the files at once. All the files in that folder are all related, so I don't get anything in my editor that I'm not interested in. Otherwise, I'd have to scroll through all (1500 in your case) files in the root and manually select the pertinent ones (ASSuming, of course, that they're all named appropriately so I can find them easily).
Really though, to each his own. How you do it shouldn't make a difference because they are both acceptable methods. I just think Menu Maker should support both instead of forcing someone in to doing things a new way when they've been doing it their way for XX years.
NEver seen this post... Sorry... Nothing came up new for a few days. Try the following... To navigate out of the sub-sub-sub directories...
../../../yofile.html
That might help you a bit more. One of the other posts, here in the forums had one guy post the page out of the manual. That stuck in my head. If I can find the post, I will post a link here for you.