cant find menu

**jen0dorf** · 14 October 2006, 07:22 PM

Hi

It's not a bother, We all get these problems I'm ok on html but graphics yuk!

Anyway I've just robbed the poor and given to the rich and I'm about to win 30million on the lottery!. No begging letters please

Lets cut to the proverbial quick as they say and get this sorted.

Go to your site folder ie the folder where all your files are. Zip it up and email it to me.

i.edwards@edwards-micros.co.uk

I'll take a look etc and get back to you. You can then compare coding and we can take it from there

Ian

**Availor** · 15 October 2006, 02:20 PM

Cheers Dave, I'm back.... here's a link for you.

4.77Mb movie avi format.

**-=Drifter=-** · 15 October 2006, 03:35 PM

Excellent tutorial, Availor!

**Availor** · 15 October 2006, 03:40 PM

Thanks Drifter! I trying to improve... the moment I'm just dying to finish my college website at least partialy so I can start working on my own website! If everything goes as planned.... there will be lots of goodies

**daveball** · 15 October 2006, 04:35 PM

Thanks so much availor that is a great tutorial.
Below I have the html cde from the site and I was wondering would u be able to highlihght the area in which I have to change so taht the menu can be seen, many thanks for you r help , I owe you big time....
Do I have to change the HTML evry time I use this menu maker to create a menu , thanks again .

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="Layer1">
<div id="Layer2">
<script webstyle4>document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="xaramenu.js">'+'</scr'+'ipt>');document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="../../../../DOCUME~1/DAVID/LOCALS~1/Temp/WS3/contact_us.js">'+'</scr'+'ipt>');/*img src="../../../../DOCUME~1/DAVID/LOCALS~1/Temp/WS3/CONTACT_US.gif" moduleid="BUTTONS FL;ASJ (Project)\CONTACT_US_off.xws"*/</script>
</div>
<img src="images/IRISH_WEB.gif" editor="Webstyle4" moduleid="BUTTONS FL;ASJ (Project)\IRISH_WEB.xws" border="0" /></div>
<div id="Layer3"><img src="images/OPEN_DESIGN.gif" height="76" border="0" editor="Webstyle4" moduleid="BUTTONS FL;ASJ (Project)\OPEN_DESIGN.xws" />
<div id="Layer7">
<div id="Layer9"><img src="images/Graphic.gif" width="652" height="13" /></div>
</div>
<div id="Layer8"></div>
</div>
<div id="Layer6">
<div align="center" class="ABOTTOMTXT">HOME | WEB DESIGN |COMAPNY | HOSTING | CONTACT US | </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

**Availor** · 15 October 2006, 04:46 PM

Code:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#Layer1 {
	position:absolute;
	width:677px;
	height:100px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 179px;
	top: 13px;
}
#Layer2 {
	position:absolute;
	width:122px;
	height:363px;
	z-index:1;
	left: -114px;
	top: 105px;
}
#Layer3 {
	position:absolute;
	width:139px;
	height:96px;
	z-index:2;
	left: 32px;
	top: 8px;
}
#Layer4 {
	position:absolute;
	width:805px;
	height:490px;
	z-index:3;
	left: 162px;
	top: 137px;
}
#Layer5 {
	position:absolute;
	width:804px;
	height:28px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 1px;
	top: 462px;
}
#Layer6 {
	position:absolute;
	width:791px;
	height:25px;
	z-index:3;
	left: 155px;
	top: 562px;
}
.ABOTTOMTXT {
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
}
.aborderimages {
	border: medium inset #0099FF;
}
#Layer7 {
	position:absolute;
	width:310px;
	height:456px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 161px;
	top: 107px;
}
#Layer8 {
	position:absolute;
	width:315px;
	height:452px;
	z-index:2;
	left: 479px;
	top: 113px;
}
#Layer9 {
	position:absolute;
	width:628px;
	height:14px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 17px;
	top: 432px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="Layer1">
  <div id="Layer2">
<script webstyle4>document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="xaramenu.js">'+'</scr'+'ipt>');document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="../../../../DOCUME~1/DAVID/LOCALS~1/Temp/WS3/contact_us.js">'+'</scr'+'ipt>');/*img src="../../../../DOCUME~1/DAVID/LOCALS~1/Temp/WS3/CONTACT_US.gif" moduleid="BUTTONS FL;ASJ (Project)\CONTACT_US_off.xws"*/</script>
  </div>
<img src="images/IRISH_WEB.gif" editor="Webstyle4" moduleid="BUTTONS FL;ASJ (Project)\IRISH_WEB.xws" border="0" /></div>
<div id="Layer3"><img src="images/OPEN_DESIGN.gif" height="76" border="0" editor="Webstyle4" moduleid="BUTTONS FL;ASJ (Project)\OPEN_DESIGN.xws" />
  <div id="Layer7">
    <div id="Layer9"><img src="images/Graphic.gif" width="652" height="13" /></div>
  </div>
  <div id="Layer8"></div>
</div>
<div id="Layer6">
  <div align="center" class="ABOTTOMTXT">HOME | WEB DESIGN |COMAPNY | HOSTING | CONTACT US | </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I wonder why your code is so messy... try linking your css into an external file (ask me if you don't know how). If you've seen in my tutorial I get only 1 line of code, not more... maybe you've messed with the "guts" of your code?

EDIT: If you still mess up zip your website and post it on the forum (considering it's less than 1MB file).

Edit 2: Yes you have to change your HTML if you want to put your menumaker files in a different folder.

**daveball** · 15 October 2006, 08:27 PM

Hi again I have attached the file for my website in zip file.
I have a few differant things in the webpage , which i s a banner and a logo, maybe its so messy as I am usig layers.
I am sure I am doing things right but obviousley I am not , its very frustrating, maybe it will jump out when U see the files , many thabnsk

**daveball** · 15 October 2006, 08:29 PM

one more thing when you cliclk on the file marked java script, there is an error that comes up , do you have idea what this means , thanks Maybe this is the problem, many thansk

**-=Drifter=-** · 15 October 2006, 08:55 PM

Availor, how are you (and the guys in the Linux threads) inserting those scrolling boxes into the forum?
Is it possible to also do that with pictures?

**jen0dorf** · 15 October 2006, 09:32 PM

Hi

In your code you are still calling a local file as in the line

scr'+'ipt src="../../../../DOCUME~1/DAVID/LOCALS~1/Temp/WS3/contact_us.js">'+'</scr'+'ipt>');/*img src="../../../../DOCUME~1/DAVID/LOCALS~1/Temp/WS3/CONTACT_US.gif" moduleid=

So when you upload contact_us.gif and contact_us.js are not there. I would suspect that is where youjavascript error is coming from. You must get this path error correct as you have elsewhere.

As an aside a layer is just a div. Using them is for many a contentious area with some designers advocating tables and other divs either can be controlled using css scripts. Personally I use whatever is appropriate for the job.

I would suggest that you go back to basics and get one element working at a time rather than build on something that has errors.

I'll take another look tomorrow

Ian