company logo layout changes

[mountain fever]

Trying to have different company logo imagery in different sections of my site.
Been trying to set it up so that I can choose the layout from thesite/company logo layout drop down tag within the section details.
Does anyone know if this is the best way to go about this and how?

[los_design]

You can do this as long as each section has its own layout page.

How many different images do you want?

By default, if using internal control, actinic will display what you set on the brochure pages and the section pages (so you could have two set internally if you wished)

HTH

[mountain fever]

is there not a way of just designing headers themed to page content and then just choosing the appropriate header for each page

[los_design]

Yup

you can design the headers per page and 'include them' using php or similar upon upload.

Regards

[jont]

yes - use a custom variable to insert the image "src" and specify this against each section

[mountain fever]

Using a custom variable sounds ideal.
Never actually done this before though could you possibly give me a bit more detail about how to do this. Thanks.

[jont]

Not at a v8 machine at the moment but the process would be:

In the library create a new variable such as MyLogoHeader and assign it to the "section" grouping.... you can also add a prompt such as "enter the section image name"

Against the section click on the tabs and you will see the prompt for the variable .. here you can enter the image name eg: "section2.jpg"

In the design tab locate the code used to insert the company logo. Delete this and enter...

<img src="MyLogoHeader" />

where the MyLogoHeader is inserted as a variable from the bar above the code. Ideally you should also add an alt attribute to the above. This can be again a different user variable (better for SEO purposes) or the same on each page eg ...

<img src="MyLogoHeader" alt="my company logo" />

HTH

[mountain fever]

thanks for this. unfortunately still struggling to get it to work at the moment!

[TraceyG]

Hi,

Jont's solution is the correct one but just to expand on it, when you create the variable, set the 'Type' to 'Filename' and tick the 'upload' box.

If you are copying and pasting his code, you need to have:

<img src="<actinic:variable name="MyLogoHeader" />"/>

instead of just

<img src="MyLogoHeader" />

I hope this helps.