actinic 6 - menu items

hi all,

i wish to copy the "specials" and "contact" html page links from the a6 brochure page menu to the main acatalog page menu.

the 2 reasons being that [1] i want to show the special offers on the main site as the vast majority of visitors come from spidered links to /acatalog/*html pages and not the front index.html brochure page and [2] customer feedback tells me that people wish to see a contact.html page with postal address and phone number in the main catalog as on the brochure page, not a simple mailto: hyperlink.

i have been previously told to edit the Act_Primary.html template and hard code the link html beneath the "NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE". i have done this, but there are two problems being [1] i now have two contact pages, one a mailto: and one the contact.html page plus [2] when i click the specials.html page, i get a page with the 'brochure' menu.

may i ask, can anyone tell me what specific files and / or html i need to add / edit where to change the menu if the mail catalog?

sorry for perhaps such a novice question, but i'm still not up to speed with actinic formats and netquotevars

cheers,
mark

[garyhay]

Mark

I think what people mean is that you need to hard code the complete menu bar and have the contact button point to where you want.

Add you specials section to the Act_Primary then it will show on all pages.

[m@rk.to]

Hi Gary,

Yes, but that's the problem. I can hard code under the NETQUOTEVAR, but it polls the wrong menu. Is there a way of editing the menu itself?

Cheers,
Mark

[garyhay]

Check the code in Act_Primary.htm in the Program Files/Actinic V6/Formats/Hyper theme you will see how the buttons are refrenced.

This will be in the Advanced User Guide which you can download from www.actinic.com

You will have to provide a refrence similar to these

NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOGLINK (Takes you to the store front page)
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSITEMAPLINK (TAKES YOU TO THE SITEMAP)

i HAVE POSTED A COMPLETE LIST OF THESE IN THE PAST

[garyhay]

Check the code in Act_Primary.htm in the Program Files/Actinic V6/Formats/Hyper theme you will see how the buttons are refrenced.

This will be in the Advanced User Guide which you can download from www.actinic.com

You will have to provide a refrence similar to these

NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOGLINK (Takes you to the store front page)
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSITEMAPLINK (TAKES YOU TO THE SITEMAP)

i HAVE POSTED A COMPLETE LIST OF THESE IN THE PAST WITH A FIREWORKS/DREAMWEAVER LIBRARY FILE

[cdicken]

That's what I would suggest as well.

Don't use NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE or NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE. Instead, just put your own images into the Act_Primary.html template for your navigation items.

For the store navigation items (cart, checkout etc.) you can use Actinic variables for the the hrefs to ensure they link to the correct place. These are detailed in the AUG. For the links to the brochure pages, just use fully qualified URLs that point to the correct brochure pages.

What I do then, is once I have got a fully working navigation bar in my store pages I copy and paste the fully-generated navigation bar code into my Act_BrochurePrimary.html template.