Brochure pages

[John Jessen]

I would like to make som brochure pages including my own HTML, but I simply cannot see how this is done. The standard brochure pages works well, but the possibilities to elaborate design are rather limited as far as I can see.

Three issues puzzles me:
1) How to address the non-Actinic pages (the "Page filename" in the bruchure page definition is automatically created and uploaded to the website)
2) How to make sure that these pages are uploaded to my website
3) How to include the basic design from the shop automatically.

Thanks for your help

John

[Jan]

The page filename is generated but you can change it, double click on the main page and you will see a field called 'Page Filename' which you can set to anything you like.

If you want to add HTML you have to put it inside special markers, they are '!!<' and '>!!', when you use them don't use the quotes.

If you have non-Actinic pages to upload add them to the additional files list which is setup using the 'Advanced'/'Additional Files' dialog.

If you want to design your own pages but include them in a brochure style page you can do this by creating the main part of the page in the way you wish to (eg with dreamweaver or frontpage), then go to brochure, create a new file and add

NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE <filename>

but put the name of your file where I have put <filename>, then when catalog generates the website it will put your HTML into the brochure page. (See http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Downloads.html for an example of this).

I hope this helps,

Regards.

[John Jessen]

Thanks - that helped a lot! Now I can include a file with my own design and show it within the Actinic design. I am doing this in the text window of the fragment, which I assume is how to do it. Great!

But, I do not quite understand the "page filename" issue. As far as I understand this filename is where the Actinic html is placed when uploaded to the website, so it is created during the upload. If I rename this "page filename" and places my own html document with that name under "site1" nothing happens except that it shows the fragment as usual.

[Jan]

The name that you specify in actinic is the name that it uses for the file that it generates, so even if you give it it's own name you cannot upload a file with the same name because Actinic will overwrite it, can you explain a bit more what you are trying to do, then I might be able to help again.

Regards,