Exporting files manually, which files are affected by certain changes

[Initiostar]

Your site works well already in its desktop and mobile variants, but I will try to answer your questions:

I understand that I only need to publish the main site if I alter it or a placeholder in it. I can just upload/publish the supersite if alter my main website.

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Under each slider directory is an auto-slider.htm and auto-slider-variant.htm with the corresponding directories with supporting files for the supersites.

TRUE AND IT WORKS

I was a little leary at the time to publish to these subdirectories in case I accidentally forgot to change the settings to the correct subdirectory.

TRY: Web Properties, Publish, Save Profile "meaningful name", check Save Publish settings.

If I want to eliminate my subdirectories and name each supersite "htm" when published-where do I do that? (or even if I keep the subdirectories). In my case I would end up publishing ten supersites to the main directory each with a different name. (or I can publish to the subdirectories.) I am using absolute paths/links in the placeholder code.

STAY WITH SUB-DIRECTORIES: Easier to keep track of everything when you have multiple embedded sites, but let me try to explain:

1. You have 10 separate supersites, but there are 5 separate 'variant' sites almost identical to their standard counterparts, but for their navigation controls. Each main supersite already has Scale-to-fit-Width applied; this could be used in both your main desktop and mobile variant, just copy, paste and scale the placeholder. That's 5 less sites to manage!

2. Should you want a different variant for each supersite, you can add that into your supersite by adding a variant to it; you might want to do this if your supersite has a wide landscape perspective and looks squashed in a portrait mobile format. Should you want to add a variant, like any other Xara website, you can design the transition from one variant to the other. You need to ensure the corresponding variant placeholder in your main site is proportionally the same as each variant in the supersite.

SUPERSITE FILE NAMING: provided you are using the supersite as an embedded website, you can change the first page filename from "index" to "anothername". In your case it might be "home", "living", "bedroom", "dining", "mattress" as the first page filenames for each of your 5 supersites.

What you will see published for each supersite is "anothername_htm_files", "anothername.htm" and "anothername.xhl". You can publish each to a sub-directory or assuming the names are unique, you can publish them all to the main website directory. Personally, I would keep them in separate sub-directories as you have done.

Not a big deal, but when I preview one of the pages with the placeholder to a supersite from Xara I can only see the first page of the supersite in the placeholder, with static elements. The actual slideshow doesn't preview or any animation. Is there a way to make that work?

Not that I've found, but it's not an issue.

Rule 1 is not to break what works; if you are going to try these things out, take a backup of the Xara doc and check what works on a test site, not the live site.

Here's couple of sites that have what I would call a "box slider", one auto-scrolls, the other has a custom design navigation control.

https://initiostar.co.uk/projects.htm - scroll down

https://theparsonage.co.uk/


Here too is the demo site where some of the ideas get tested.

https://initiostar.co.uk/demo/zNivo/

Hope it helps,

Gary

[yellowbird]

Thank you Gary all this information it is very helpful and clarifies things for me. I would remove the other post but I don't think I can.