Can boxes make pages (thats a good title)!

[silky]

Hi all again,

Ok i have changed my template to "smart" specific template. I think it does the job a bit better than curves (for what i need anyway).

AND i found there are boxes down both sides of the page!

What i would like to know is this. can i use these boxes and how do i use these boxes (more importantly). to display brochure pages.

So in effect what i would like to do is this.

Have one box titled community. Then inside that boxes a few labels like "features" "news" etc that the customer could click on and get to that particular brochure page.
Sounds too good to be true. but hey! it's always worth asking right?

can it be done? or am i going to resign myself to tears and chain smoking!

[jont]

Yes - this is a standard use of the side boxes in that theme. You specify the details under Design | Options | Site Defaults

In the value you will need to put something like

<a href="http://www.site.com/news.html">News</a>

to create a link through to the news page

Worth doing a serach on the smart theme and boxes as there has been lots of discussion about their use, moving, adding more etc

[silky]

hooray! at last i got something i can work with! thanks Jont

[silky]

ok so it's not quite hooray.
i did what i was told to do in the post above but the link fails
could it be my page called "What's been happening"
i at first copied and pasted the code above where i was told to put it. and the link failed then i changed the last part of the code >News</a> to
>What's been happing</a> again it failed so i looked at hte whole line and changed the line accordingly to:
,a href="http://www.site.com/What's been happening.html">What's been happening</a>
i tried it with spaces and with out and it still fails.

What am i doing wrong?

Also can i add more than one page/link to a box?
Thanks again

[jont]

you need to substitue www.site.com with your actual site name so if you want to link to the actinic index page you would use:

<a href="http://www.actinic.co.uk/index.htm">Actinic Home Page</a>

the index.htm has to be an actual page on the site you are linking through to ... the best way to get the whole http:// part is to browse to the page in question in your web browser and copy and paste the URL from the address bar.

Jont

[silky]

ok i will try it, thanks again will let you know how i got on.

I may be back for more help!

[silky]

Hi, can i do this from the online preview?

[silky]

oh, yeah and how do i add more pages to one box?

as panel says i cant add anymore boxes

[wjcampbe]

It may help you later if we get the terms right. You are actually adding page links into the side box, presumably by typing the text jont gave you on the Design | Options - Site Defaults tab.

After the first link add

<br /><a href="http://www.actinic.co.uk/index.htm">Actinic Home Page</a>

(obviously vhange the code to point at your pages) and keep doing that till the box fills up.

You can add more boxes - search for "side box smart theme" on this forum.

[silky]

Thanks William, and everyone for your patience.
Still having problems with this one though.

when i have to change the code point to the pages that i want displayed (brochure pages). I had to find the URL. I tried this on the online preveiw but to no avail. i guess i am going to have to bite the bullet and launch it or at least test launch the site...Which leads to me my next question... how do i do a test launch? and would you wonderful people be able to see where and how i am going wrong on that?

[wjcampbe]

You could talk to Actinic about trial space, and yes, if you tell us the browser path to that space, we would be able to see the code on any pages you upload.

What we are trying to do here will not work properly until you do upload to webspace. Until then, the pages don't really have a web address to create links to.

[silky]

Right-o when i have finished reloading all the images back into actinic i will launch.

Be READY around about sunday monday my very helpful friends, there will be lots of help required. Though with all the help i have had i shouldn't percieve it being too hard for us all!

[wjcampbe]

If you already have your own web space, you can upload a test site there. You would need to get all the information collected together and put it into Advanced | Network Settings, and read the help on Getting online in Help | Help Topics.