hyperlink from a sidebar box

[Muchi]

Hi,
I have managed to insert a image into the sidebar box, but I would like to link it to another page, any help would be greatly appreciated please

[Nadeem]

Hi there

How did you put the image on the sidebar, was it through a template? If so, then you need to use the href link:

<a href="http://www.domain.com/page.html"><img src="yourimage.jpg"></a>

If not, then please provide more information.

Kind Regards

[Muchi]

Hi Nadeem,
I followed advice from a previous post but have no idea how to link it to another page, please see as follows:-

"Placing an image in the right sidebar box instead of text
Go to 'Design | Options | Site Defaults' and locate RIGHTBARTEXT row.
Within the 'Value' field, enter the filename of an image you want to appear within the design. This image needs to be in your 'Site1' folder.
Select the 'Is File Name' box.
Next, go to the 'Layouts' tab and click 'Edit' next to the 'Default Overall Layout' field.
Search for CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTEXT and change it to read:
<img src="CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTEXT" border="0">
Save your changes and preview the results."

Thanks Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi there

Change the following

<img src="CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTEXT" border="0">

to read

<a href="http://www.domain.com/page.html"><img src="CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTEXT" border="0">

Where the "http://www.domain.com/page.html" is the location of the webpage you want to point to, or you could also just put the pagename, if its in the /acatalog/ folder

Kind Regards

[Muchi]

Hi Nadeem,
Thanks, that did the job , is it also possible to add extra boxes into the left and right sidebars ?

Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi there

is it also possible to add extra boxes into the left and right sidebars

Only if you do it via the template - Act_Primary.html. You would need to know html to do this.

Kind Regards

[Muchi]

Hi Nadeem,
No I do not know HTML, so it will have to stay as it is at the moment if there is no easy way around it, once again thank you for all your help

Mark

[grantos]

Hi,
I have managed to insert a image into the sidebar box, but I would like to link it to another page, any help would be greatly appreciated please

How did you do this mate?

[Muchi]

Hi Grant,
Just look at my previous post and follow the instructions, if I can do it anybody can

[otiz]

If i want to have link sections as below in one of my right boxes like

product1
product2
product3
etc
etc
etc

can i place the below code into notepad and repeat it, then copy/paste into RIGHTBARTEXT

<a href="http://www.PRODUCT1.com/page.html"></a>
<a href="http://www.PRODUCT2.com/page.html"></a>
<a href="http://www.domain.com/page.html"></a>

i have tried to add it anyway but it only lets me add three lines and runs out of space

thanks
Paul

[Sparky]

Hi Guys,

I have been trying to add an image to my right title box following the instructions earlier in the post.
I have checked and re-checked the instructions but all i get in the right title bar is this


GIF89ad

The URL for this is www.kave.co.uk/acatalog

Cheers
Sparky

[jont]

Hi Mark - check you have not ticked the "use file content" when specifying the file in the properties field

[Sparky]

I did originally have the use file content button ticked. It is now unticked and I get the url of the image displayed now.

Cheers

Sparky

Just checked more thouroguhly everything except the home, products and more pages has this image displayed now.

[jont]

Check you have added the correct CUSTOMVAR reference to the template as shown above:

<img src="CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTEXT" border="0">

Then in the DESIGN | OPTIONS | SITE DEFAULTS set the CUSTOMVAR as kave_sales_2004.gif | use as CUSTOMVAR = ticked | file name = ticked |

Make sure the kave_sales_2004.gif is in the root folder of SITE 1

[Sparky]

Hi Jont,

Thanks for the replys, once I found all the releveant files to change I have managed to sort it. Thanks once again!

Sparky