I am using site nav bars. Is there any way to be able to have them in different places on each page? By default they seem to repeat on each page in the same position. This is not always convenient.
Many thanks,
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I am using site nav bars. Is there any way to be able to have them in different places on each page? By default they seem to repeat on each page in the same position. This is not always convenient.
Many thanks,
while on the page where you dont want the nav bar in the same place. right click and select 'stop updating' - then you can move it where you wish.
You will of course thereafter need to remember that when you update the navbar that you will also have to update it on the page/s where you have selected 'stop updating' for that object.
Thanks TX, I knew there must be some way of doing it.
You can also create more than one navigation bar. So, for example you can have a vertical and a horizontal one, or one at the top and a different one at the bottom of the page.
Hi Gary,
Is there an easy way to have 2 different nav bars on one website? I did a French/English site once where I had 2 groups of pages - one French and one English. I had different nav bars for each group. The groups were brought together to a common welcome (index) page. I managed it but it seemed a bit messy at the time. I think that I had to create the second (French) nav bar, put it on all pages and then delete it from the English pages. It worked but is there a better way?
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.
Many thanks Garry. I never thought of that but it sounds like a good idea. So are you saying that I should put say the English site and the link page into my basic site and the french site into a subfolder? What is the form then for linking say the French flag on the link page to the new french folder? I think that I know the answer but until i give it a try ..........................
Best regards
Please, I'm new on Web Designer and I have a link related problem: All links of my website works fine on Xara browsertest, but when published it not open the linked page. What is this? how can I resolve it?
Many thanks for some help.
Cheers,
Polinesio
Peebs24 - one r Gary :)
Polinesio - Welcome to TalkGraphics
Can you give us a link to the page with the links that don't work?
Many thanks for your attention.
My website is www.polinesio.net, it is running by now, but aleatorily the links on navbar and some others don't open.
By now, while I looking for some help, I visit your website www.gwpriester.com and , for my surprise, occur the same: links do not open by click.Quote:
Originally Posted by Polinesio
But it works if I use a right click and "open new window".
If the problem is in my computer, have you some idea to try?
Many thanks,
Polinesio.
I am going to take a guess and say that you are using Chrome?
If so this happened to me a while back - it's a problem that I found with a number of websites, including some created in Web Designer (not only Web Designer created sites!).
Uninstall Chrome and then re-install the latest version of it and see whether that resolves it for you.
Dear PeteS,
Yes I use Chome. But I already run uninstall it and back to IE. This procedure do not solve the problem. IE works at same way... links do not open.
Check what browser plug-ins you have got installed. I'd suggest disabling all of them and then see whether it works.
Re-enable 1 at a time until you find the one which causes the problem.
where I find it (browser plug-ins)? please!
After long hours looking for a solution, I disabled the complement "Yontoo" and every things back to works fine. My site and gwpriester.com.
I'll reinstall Chrome.
Thanks to Gary and Pete. You help me to think.
Now I'm very excited with Xara.
Cool. Glad we could help.
I've just linked to your site and every time I click a link to a page it opens it in a new tab in my browser(chrome). Have you been selecting the open in new window in the properties section for the pages?
Ken
Yes, I did selection to links open in new tab.
Many thanks.
Polinesio.
You don't need to link to new tab since this is your website and if a visitor goes to many pages, soon his browser is filled with tabs. :-O
Use Link to Tab or Link to New Window if you are linking to another website. If your visitor goes to another website, your website is still open.
Hi Gary,Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
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,
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,Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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
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Hi CSEHZ,Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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
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,
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,Quote:
Originally Posted by 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,
Try using relative linksQuote:
Originally Posted by Peebs24
Hi Sledger,
I would if I knew what they were!!!
Regards,
You would if you clicked my link (in both posts) ;)
Sorry Sledger - i didn't see the link.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledger
Well I did read it and change the link in the .xar file to read 'html_eng/index_eng.htm' - for the English link. To me that says go to the folder html_eng and get file index_eng.htm. I still get a 404!!
Hi Sledger,
Yes, I finally got there but only by going into the code and modifying what the.xar file put there. The exported .xar file kept putting in the extra folder so the link could never find the file. By editing out the code I got it to work OK.
I still don't understand why but anyway thanks for your help.
Regards,
Have you unchecked 'Correct automatically' in link properties?
You're not supposed to be editing the exported code..
Hi Sledger,Quote:
Originally Posted by sledger
Re Uncheck Auto correct: No ............... I didn't know that that was necessary.
Re You are not supposed ................ Yes I do know that but it was the only way I could get the thing to work.
I had previously tried The relative link - without knowing what it was called - it just seemed logical but it kept adding in the ref to the files directory so I moved on and tried everything else!
What I have done in the past was to make one big .xar file - mess about with the navbar so that I had 2 navbars -French on the French pages and English on the English pages and have the index page jump to the appropriate page. It always worked but it was not very elegant so this time I though I would try the separate folder approach - much easier to maintain.
Thanks for all your help.
Regards,