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[erix]

The time has come...

I've been trying to create a home page, using Brochure pages, and adapting them via Dreamweaver.

So far so good.

The main change was the positioning of the brochure pages - I've dragged them over so that they are side by side, rather than below eachother.
The plan is to to add lots of boxes via dreamweaver, with text etc.

I've then tried to import them back into actinic somehow...and im almost tearing my hair out , so the time has come to ask for help.

Is this at all possible? I thought I'd just be able to copy the html back into actinic, but i have no idea where.

Please could someone point me in the right direction...

[gabrielcrowe]

after you fiddled with the html in dreamweaver, you should make a single empty fragment.

use this:

!!<

<yourhtml here />

>!!

to get actinic to display it.



also, consider enclosing your content in left flaoting divs, like this:

<div style="float: left; width:100;">bleh</div>
<div style="float: left; width:100;">bleh</div>
<div style="float: left; width:100;">bleh</div>

to make them all left aligned, like you wanted.

[I-CC]

You could create a fixed brochure page with the content fixed in the way suggested, but for more flexibilty, would suggest a slight customized approach as used in the Advanced User Guide (Actinic site download section) that explains Brochure pages and Side by Side Fragments (which is one of normans inventions).. This then allows fragments in the normal way, but side by side (2 x 2, 3x3 etc etc).

Get the AUG from the Actinic site and look through that, which will cover what you need I think.

[erix]

thanks guys,

unfortunately im not proficient in HTML (acutally just a novice).
I've done some fiddling in dreamweaver, and then copied the dreamweaver code into the homepage (clicked on edit).

now im uploading the site and i got the following warning :


"Warning: The HTML templates specify source files (with "SRC=" commands) that reside in directories other than the acatalog directory on the web site. Actinic can not handle these files and they are being omitted from the list of files to upload.

No source files in the templates should have a path. Store them in the site specific directory locally, and they will be uploaded to the Actinic web directory."

what did i do wrong? is this going to be a problem?

[erix]

New problem - ive uploaded the front page, i called it home.
when i go to the website, it seems to go straight to the first brochure page.

two possibilities that i guess: -
1. i've currently got a redirect from www.oneshoelane.com - would this have made it go to the first brochure page instead of the homepage?

2. the warning in my previous post had something to do with this?


support at techno - what page in the AUG? I havent found it..

thanks
Erika

[EdwardMartin]

Source Files

The html code pulls in files from other sources on your computer, for example pictures may be in your my pictures file. Actinic cant find these so you have to upload the files to the site by adding them, you do this in the advanced menu "Add files"
Then you have to change the source code in the html to target its place on the web, ie
www.yoururl.com/acatalog/nameoffile

I was up to 2am figuring this out!

Regards
Edward
www.thehoneydoctor.com

[erix]

Im still getting the message - but i cant figure out what i need to be copying to the Add Files section - any ideas?

also, how do i get the button to the homepage appearing? its greyed out in the design options>navigation tab.

thanks for your patience...still a noob here...

[EdwardMartin]

Source Files

You need to look through the html text and chancge any "src=" files to ensure they point to a file on your site.
Regards
Edward
www.thehoneydoctor.com

[Guest]

Hi Erix,

This is a commom error when you add an image directly into the template or choose an image that resides outside the /Site1/ folder. You can copy the images either to the /Site1/folder or just ignore the error if you know the images are being uploaded and displayed properly.

[erix]

Hi Erix,

This is a commom error when you add an image directly into the template or choose an image that resides outside the /Site1/ folder. You can copy the images either to the /Site1/folder or just ignore the error if you know the images are being uploaded and displayed properly.

well i guess all the pics are there - thanks for that - i know what to look out for now - missing pictures...

Edward - what do i change src= to? or should i just be identifying the pictures that arent in the site1/folder?

Also - any ideas about the homepage link?

[EdwardMartin]

src files

I think images will work if they are in site one folder and are also used as part of an Actinic module ie item photo. If not then they need to be uploaded to the site using the advanced menu.

Ill have to give the homepage problem some more thought!
Regards
Edward