Questions about variants and super sites

Hi everyone,
I was feeling frisky and decided to try developing my site redesign as a super site (supersite?). But, of course, I have hit a snag.

First off, is it possible to create a mobile variant as a super site and the desktop variant as a regular site? This is my first time creating a mobile site. Or a super site for that matter.

I like the idea of mobile users being able to use the navigation menu or to simply swipe through the pages at their discretion.

The other question is about a navbar issue (which actually is a variant issue, too). On the desktop variant, one of the main buttons (Departments) was intended to link to a directory/landing page with links to all the individual department pages. This is the only button with sub-menus.

The reason for this design is to allow visitors who don't interact well with drop downs and sub-menus to go directly to a static page to find what they're looking for.

Designer Pro isn't having it. It tells me that (paraphrased) mobile users won't be able to access the sub-menu and no matter whether I click "ignore" it removes the link.

I am going to use the mobile variant which will have its own navigation so I'm not sure how to get around this in the desktop variant.

Thanks!

Just an answer to your first question - it is currently not possible to mix 'n' match Conventional and Supersites together across Variants in Xara v 6.2.
You would have to create two separate sites and cross-link them.

Acorn

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Originally Posted by unfaithfulsfan

The other question is about a navbar issue (which actually is a variant issue, too). On the desktop variant, one of the main buttons (Departments) was intended to link to a directory/landing page with links to all the individual department pages. This is the only button with sub-menus.

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Remove the NavBar entirely and replace each top level button with a similar simpler, rollover button instead with the same links.

For Departments, change this to open a pop-up layer showing a list of buttons to each department instead. Delete the static page.

This is far cleaner.

Acorn

Thanks, Acorn!

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Originally Posted by unfaithfulsfan

Thanks, Acorn!

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Glad it made sense.

Acorn