Menu Maker in Web Designer

**Wilshep** · 20 March 2009, 05:31 AM

Many thanks Bill - I'm just catching up after a couple of days away. I appreciate your response and guidance.

**DigitalJeweler** · 20 March 2009, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by BQ

I was able to successfully add a NavBar from MenuMaker into Web Designer.....

I tried the exact same thing and nothing shows up.

I'm not sure if I totally understand about the copying of the Menumaker file into the Index Html folder. I tried that and still nothing shows up...

here's the file if anyone wants to take a peek. It shows the menu script in the html code...

My feeling is that I'm not getting how to get the menu maker file(s) into the proper place. It's such a mess of files and terms! This is why I'm a jeweler and not a web designer.

**Soquili** · 20 March 2009, 12:51 PM

Looking at your placeholder text the javascript files created by Menu Maker should be in the same folder with your Web Designer created htm file.

The graphic files probably should be in that same folder unless you specified another folder when you saved you menu while still in Menu Maker.

BQ · 20 March 2009, 12:59 PM

what Bill says.....save menu maker and web designer files in same folder.

**DigitalJeweler** · 20 March 2009, 08:18 PM

YES, Thank you for the great visual, that's how I learn.

Now, I've checked to see if the button Html works fine which it does as a stand alone when I double click it for browser preview.

However when it's combined with the rest of the website, the mouse over colors and the drop down sub menus don't work. All the files are there.

I'm confused now although happy I got them to show up. That was a GREAT TIP...Many Thanks!

Mark

**Soquili** · 20 March 2009, 08:47 PM

Have you actually Exported the website to the folder where you MenuMaker files are located?

Did you assign links to your buttons and submenus in MenuMaker? You will need to do that for the navbar/menus to work.

**DigitalJeweler** · 20 March 2009, 08:56 PM

I have all the files in that zipped folder part of the overall folder where I've been exporting the website in progress so if I understand your question properly, it's all in the same general folder.

Why would the browser preview work of the nav bar/buttons. I do not have the links and pages assigned to the buttons yet.

That's another task to wrap my brain around.

**Soquili** · 20 March 2009, 09:11 PM

I misunderstood your previous post. I thought your buttons were not working or showing in the browser preview.

The navbar and menus show in the browser preview and look good.

**DigitalJeweler** · 20 March 2009, 09:30 PM

I think we're getting closer her for sure, thanks to you Bill and the others that have chimed in...

Here's a pic of the overall file structure. Hopefully I have illustrated my overall problem well.

When clicking on the PPJ Button (Firefox Icon file) it does a browser preview of the Menu Maker Nav Bar and all the drop down menus I did. It even calls up the pages that were assigned (Still working on finishing that).

But when I go to say page 2 of the website and try to click on the nav bar from within the site preview, the navbar is dead.

I've exported the most current nav bar settings into the master file, and when I'm ready to preview, I double click on the index icon to see how it all is laying out.

Hope my rambling is making sense, I can smell it now, we're getting closer!

Thanks heaps!