Adding boxes to left/right of screen

[jont]

Did you keep the filename extension eg paypal.gif or paypal.jpg? It will not work if you just have paypal

[silky]

ok, i got a copy of the logo from paypal, not very forthcoming with nice ones but there you go! and added it to my site 1 folder (it's in there with all the other images) and i renamed it as "paypal" but all i get in this box is the red cross thing with paypal logo on it! what am i dong wrong?

[silky]

hi, i had the extension of paypal.gif, as it's a gif file. still not working.

[Matthew Brown]

Images as Links

Hi,
You need to set up a CUSTOMVAR - go to Help, Help Topics and and type customvar in search box, and go from there.

Can anyone help me?
The Image Clickable box in my Links tab on my product entries I can't click on - I need to use this to make the image clickable.
I want to have an advanced link to a particular page but it only lets me type in text for the link. Anybody?

Thanks
Matthew
http://www.jamcomm.com

[wjcampbe]

Matthew, apart from chastising you for hijacking someone else's thread and diverting the topic? A search on here for make image clickable will yield a multitude of answers.

[silky]

Ok so i am going to quit trying to get a link to paypal, and just use their graphic, does this code allow me to do that? and where do i put it? i am thinking that i put it in the wrong place!
I added it to Design|options|left bar text.

You lot know what i am like, probabley added it to the wrong place as usual! Tch!

<img src="paypal.gif" alt="PayPal logo" title="PayPal logo" />

[silky]

ok i have another question for you good people as well.

I have my side boxes, and i have info in those now (thanks jont) but the brochure pages still appear in the top bar as buttons, is there a way to hide/remove them?

[Bruce]

You can do that by hiding NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE in the Brochure template. Take a look at the Advanced Users Guide page 14 for inserting individual navigation buttons.

Kind regards,

[silky]

thanks will look into it

[PeterThake]

Images as well!

Excellent thread but I was still stuck on how to get images to appear in the side (margin) boxes. Finally realised I need to use code like this:

<img src="../test.gif" alt="test" border="0" />

the ../ path was important!

Pete

[wjcampbe]

the ../ path was important!

May have been, but should not be necessary. When you upload to the web, Actinic normally puts all the images inside the /acatalog/ folder. From the Brochure pages, the path is "/acatalog/test.gif", from catalog pages it is "test.gif" - you may need to look again.

[PeterThake]

Boxes...

Thanks Bill, you are right. The ../ works for me but not for both pages. This means you need different paths when using an external text file containing the links and images you wish to display in the brochure and shop? Its getting confusing now ;-) I will surf the forums....
Pete

[wjcampbe]

Yep, you need to remember that normally the brochure home page is in the root - so it is at the same level as the acatalog folder. All the other pages are inside the acatalog folder and that folder is in the root.

To reference an image file in the webspace root from a catalog page inside the acatalog folder you would need to use ../ which means go up one level. from the brochure page, the image in the root folder is at the same level so you just need the filename.

But if actinic loads the images, they will be in the acatalog folder, not the root, so the path from brochure will be /acatalog/filename and the path from catalog pages will be filename only.