Nav Button linked to external Site (forum)

[MASTERforge]

Hi,

I have searched on the forum but I cant find any info on this. I am sure (hope) its quite simple and straight forward.

I want to create a navigation button to go next to my other nav buttons. But this one is linked to a forum (external site).

I am not sure how to do this. I understand that I will have to create the gif icons for the button. But much more than that I am quite confused.

If someone could point me in the right direction or give me a link to the answer it would really help a lot.

Thanks

[Duncan Rounding]

It's hard to describe how to add another navigation button on a Friday. Maybe someone elses brain is functioning better...

But, depending on the size of forum pages; one easy way would be to add a new brochure page and include one text only fragment. Inside this fragment place an iframe to hold your forum. Like this (just modify the pixel sizes):

<iframe src="http://myforumurl" width="890" height="550"></iframe>

Otherwise you could just add another link in the fragment to the forum page with a message saying something about the forum etc. The link would be something like this:

<a href="http://myforumurl" target="_blank"><img src="forumimageifyouwant.jpg" alt="alternate text" width="asneeded" height="asneeded" border="0"></a>

Or replace the blue with text.

[MASTERforge]

I know what you mean about friday afternoons

I did a little more delving and found in the knowledge base:

To insert your own custom navigation buttons, with image rollovers, you can recycle the code from any of the existing navigation image layouts.

1. Go to 'Design | Library | Layouts'.

2. Locate the 'Navigation Icons' group and click on any layout in the list whose name ends in 'Image Navigation Button'.

3. Right-click on this layout and select 'New Layout'. Call your new layout whatever you want.

4. Customise the code as you see fit.
Image navigation button layouts have the following format:
<a href="http://url.to.link.to/" target="_self" onmouseover="SwapImage('image_name','rollover_image.gif')" onmouseout="RestoreImage()"><img src="normal_image.gif" alt="Some alternative text" border="0" name="image_name" /></a>

Substitute the placeholder values in there with real relevant values for you.
· normal_image.gif - the normal button graphic
· rollover_image.gif - the highlighted button graphic
· image_name - a name for the image.
Each button needs to have a unique name.

I am now having a go to see if it will give me the results.