Sub folders

I would like to create a sub folder but don't see a way of doing it. I.e. I want to create a specialoffer/index.htm page so that people can type webpage.com/specialoffer and it will load. If I create a separate/copy of my current web pages then upload to a sub directory I assume it will mess up the page links on my menu. I tried a filename of specialoffers/index but it does not like the back slash char!!

I could create a separate page and hard code all the menus - but as that is a lot of work I hope that is not the only answer.


Thanks,


Turan

Long time, Turan. :)

Create a sub-folder on your web hosts server, for example special-offer. Publish your special offer page just to that folder. If you save that file as index.htm or index.html then the link is www.mywebsite.com/special-offer

Or, you can create a special offer page on your website. You can even have a button on your navigation bar SPECIAL OFFER. You can change the content of the page as the offer changes.

Don't overthink this. :)

Thanks Gary, I've went old school and paid for a newspaper advert so can't link to it :-). My website has 33 pages!! I would need to create a duplicate doc with just one page in it, but then my nav bar would not work - unless I hard code the full URL for that one page (prone to human error) OR drop the navbar all together (but I want this page to look like all the others). Given wed designer is supposed to automate work flow - thought there would be a nice solution like adding a filename special-offer/index :-(

Am I missing something simple or do I need to do what I said above and duplicate my Xara page, delete all but one page and rename it index the hard code all URL's?

And thanks for remembering me :-)

Not sure. Let's wait and see if someone else comes up with a better suggestion.

Thanks - bottom line is I know how to do the slow way. But if I ever update my nav bar I need to now remember to go in and update the standalone page.

You should be able to create a one-page site (copy a page from your current site and paste it into the new one), then upload that to a subdirectory on your server (speacialoffer for example) and then when a user types in www.yoursite.com/specialoffer it should open that one page (which by default will be named index.htm or .html depending on your settings).

Hi Turan,
1: Create your special-offers website (just a single page) and publish it as index.htm to a subfolder named 'specials'.
2: On your main site create a page and in it place a placeholder with the following code in the Body:

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<iframe src="http://your-site.com/specials/index.htm" width=680 height=630 scrolling=no frameborder=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0></iframe>

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EXAMPLE

Hi Egg, just for reference, tried viewing your example on an iPad and noticed I had to tap each menu button twice to open a page. The first tap changed the button colour, the second opend the page.

Cheers Jono. It was intended as a 'how-to' so I'm not really concerned about iPads but just to confirm I get the same ;)

Oh! Egg you're a star - that works, and a very nice way to do it. Big thanks. Sorry for delay in getting back to you, thought it was set for notifications but it was not.

Turan

Actually I think I need the reverse! I need the subfolder single index page to have the placeholder and pull in the page form my main site. As with your example if the user reads the newspaper and types http://parkeston.com/turan/specials/ they will see the inner page with no navbar!!


No! Just did that and the problem is now - while the sub page looks cool, if I navigate to say "contactUs" page it has a border around the box and scroll bars appear :-(


Here is what I have so far (the news paper is called the advertiser - so the sub page is "advertiser" not specialoffer :-) ):

http://www.feel-good.today/advertiser/

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http://www.feel-good.today/advertiser.htm

Any thoughts, think I'm close.

The first link leads to an empty page.

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http://parkeston.com/turan/specials/

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But why would a visitor type in that url Turan ???

Before moving the to Xara I had the structure "website.com/aboutUs/index.htm", "website.com/contactUs/index.htm" etc so the htm was never typed, if oyu e-mailed a link it looked more user friendly "If you want to find out about us go straint to website.com/AboutUs" etc. I think that was the default structure for dreamweaver? Can't recall why. I have to say I feel this old way is better - all images for that page are in a subfolder of the dir etc.


As peopled were reading the local advertiser, I thought it would be nice to direct them to feel-good.today/advertiser I thought it looked shorter & cleaner than telling them to type feel-good.today/advertiser.htm or feel-good.today/advertiser.thml

So that is the why. Any thoughts?

There's nothing stopping you doing that in Xara Turan but your site currently has 17 pages. You are suggesting just for the sake of changing a url from:

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feel-good.today/advertiser.htm

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to a very slightly shorter user friendly:

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feel-good.today/advertiser

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you'll need to create 16 sub-folders (sites), each of which has it's own page index_htm_folder.

The problem with using this approach is Xara doesn't create an dedicated 'images' folder. Each sub-folder (site) would have a unique folder:

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index_htm_files

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such that every sub-folder (site) would need to hold each individual image etc and on loading will need to download the image anew, even if they are identical across all pages, as the browser see's them as different images.

You can circumvent this by creating your own universal 'images' folder for reference by all sub-folders but again this leads to more work.

It may be possible to change links from one url to another via the .htaccess file but I'm unsure how this redirection would be looked at by SEO's.