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**completerookie** · 12-Oct-2006, 06:31 AM

It depends how you want to do it.
there is a variable you can use called "FooterText"
which equates to

Code:

"<actinic:variable name="FooterText" />"

this is set in the Settings, Site-Options, and then in the General-Tab
Look in the Site-Section, its the third entry down. whatever you put in here comes out on every page.
look in the help text for "Embedding html" if you have specific html code to use,
Alternatively, you need to create a new layout for the bit of code you want at the bottom of the page - this layout is held within the Design Library in the section called "Layouts", look for "Page Areas" and then look at "Footer Area"
If you want to do it slightly more interactively, then select one of your product pages, click on the design tab, and then use the icon in the bottom left hand corner of the Layout Code pane, keep click on this until you can't go further, (this gets you to the page layout template), then scroll down to the bottom of the code and you will see the variable called "Footer Text" being used, make changes here.

**EdSearancke** · 14-Oct-2006, 08:05 AM

Thanks Kevin for this advice. I have tried to do this by inserting the code in design view as a test at teh end of the html code

<actinic:variable name="HeaderFooter" value="Footer Text" />
</div>
<body>
<p>This foot is a test</p>
</body>

However Actinic positions this footer text in the top left hand corner of the page. I think this must be because I have designed the main look of the page in Dreamweaver and have used layers to insert the design elements where i want to see them.

I am wondering if I should be positioning the footer in the correct place on the page by definining another layer in Dreamweaver. However the problem is that the bottom of the page can be in a different position depending upon the number of products whereas I think I can only use layers in Dreamweaver to define a specific point on the screen rather than a relative point on the page.

Hope this makes sense, and I do really appreciate your assistance.

Regards,Ed.

**wjcampbe** · 14-Oct-2006, 01:29 PM

Your code needs to come before the </body> tag - that tag marks the end of the page content. It's a miracle [and an error] that your code is showing up anywhere.

**Bun** · 15-Oct-2006, 06:32 PM

Okay, I'm trying to do as instructed above but instead of getting the footer text I put in via the settings/site options/general/footer text I end up with the navigation bar/text I have at the top of the page appearing at the botton as well

Can anyone help out?

Thank you for your time and patience

**RuralWeb** · 15-Oct-2006, 06:53 PM

Why not just put the footer into the outer layer in DW.

**Bun** · 15-Oct-2006, 07:29 PM

I was under the impression that I could not use DW to alter layouts in V8?

I'm after creating a new list of suppliers at the bottom of each page. I've done this with V7 by creating a new fragment and creating text links into the site.......but, I'm getting a bit cheesed off with doing this for every page (even though it's just a case of copy & pasting) plus everytime I add a new supplier I've got to go through the full site copy & pasting again

**pinbrook** · 15-Oct-2006, 07:47 PM

I was under the impression that I could not use DW to alter layouts in V8?

OUTER Layout is different to layouts.

You can create an outer layout in DW this will then govern the overall design

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