Navigation Links

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Because I am editing my page design in Dreamweaver it would be handy if I could insert some normal href text navigation links into the design. Is it ok to do this without using the Insert Actinic Content function?

Does it have any effect on cookies etc?

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Another related question:

How can I make an image in a fragment link through to the main shop index page? The shop index page is not listed in the Section drop-down box on the Links page of the Fragment Details area.

[TraceyG]

Hi,

Because I am editing my page design in Dreamweaver it would be handy if I could insert some normal href text navigation links into the design. Is it ok to do this without using the Insert Actinic Content function?

Yes, you can add your own links in Dreamweaver. Just note that if you have a site where people can log in then your links to sections need to go through a perl script so that the site can determine whether a customer is logged in or not. This is in the form of:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?...html&NOLOGIN=1

Where:
· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN
· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number
· Section%5fPage%2ehtml is the filename of your desired page. Note that you have to encode any non-alphanumeric characters so an underscore '_' becomes '%5f' and a full stop '.' becomes '%2e'.
· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential thing to add to the end of the URL to order to bypass the login page

If the links are on your home page then you also need to add:

&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://your.URL/acatalog/

onto the end of the link above.

How can I make an image in a fragment link through to the main shop index page?

You would have to use the 'URL' field on the 'Links' tab and type in the full address to your shop index page.

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Hi Tracey,

Thanks for that. If there is no members login I can bypass all of that though can I?

Rob

[TraceyG]

Hi Rob,

Yes, you can then just use normal links.