Xara Web Designer MX Premium 8 Video Tutorials and Xara Web Designer 7 Premium

[Tom Elledge]

I have just watched the tutorials on navbars and it's helped a great deal in understanding where I have been messed up previously. But I am still stuck, as I have a site I have been asked to build and the drop down links on the sponsors page are supposed to link with the catagories listed on the sponsor page, ie:attractions, restauraunts etc. Can this be done with xara? I am really struggling for some reason to figure it out and my deadline for the project is drawing near. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[champ]

I have just watched the tutorials on navbars and it's helped a great deal in understanding where I have been messed up previously. But I am still stuck, as I have a site I have been asked to build and the drop down links on the sponsors page are supposed to link with the catagories listed on the sponsor page, ie:attractions, restauraunts etc. Can this be done with xara? I am really struggling for some reason to figure it out and my deadline for the project is drawing near. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I am understanding correctly you want to link the sub menus to those categories. If yes, I would go to your navigation menu bar properties by double clicking on your navigation bar you created. Then I would check the settings category and make sure you have the "automatically link to all pages" option unchecked. That way when you create a new page it doesn't automatically create a new tab in your navigation menu bar. Once you do that when you create a new page go back to your navigation menu bar and create the sub-menu you want and link it to the new pages you create. Let me know if that resolves your problem.

[trukkerz]

I suppose its a preference thing because I would much prefer this layout of layers - as I dont think it affects the operation of the website I suppose its down to the individual on how they work


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[champ]

I suppose its a preference thing because I would much prefer this layout of layers - as I dont think it affects the operation of the website I suppose its down to the individual on how they work


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cheerz

I wish I had an example I could show you but its been years since I had any problems with the layers. I remember awhile back I had problem with layers but I think that was with like version 6 of the program, which is when I started using the method I showed you. I tested it the way you mentioned and it seems to be safe so I would stick with what you have been doing. I will have to make an update tutorial on that subject or add a note into video.

[trukkerz]

I would nt bother with an update video as your method works well - and teaches people to do things in an orderly manner - me i,m just lazy lol - .

[champ]

I would nt bother with an update video as your method works well - and teaches people to do things in an orderly manner - me i,m just lazy lol - .

I can be lazy too but for efficiency purposes only lol I tend to use all the short-cut keys instead of actually going to any of the menus... that's one of the first things I practiced when I started using the xara web design software. I try not to use the short-cuts in the video because not everyone is going to remember them when starting out learning the program. However I might start using them slowly just to get everyone one the same page and moving faster so that my tutorials can be shorter and faster to the point.

[Tom Elledge]

Thanks so much Steve for helping me out. I previewed yours and it worked great. I set mine up the same way and it checked out great twice, but now for some reason, both your file and mine in preview mode try to got to "lost webpages" page on the web. I am hoping this is my computer but won't know until I get the site uploaded. Thanks for TALKGRAPHICS and all your help.

[steve.ledger]

In WD, make sure you are previewing the website and not the page because all pages need to be exported to Xara's temp folder when previewing.