Quicky re Logo's

[TBird1]

Hi there,

I'm having trouble finding where in Actinic to set the URL to make the Corporate Logo clickable (so that it returns you to the homepage)?

I'd like to set this both for the Brochure and the Catalogue.

My site is under devleopment here if it helps for reference.
http://trials.actinic.com/trials/trial28121/Hair.html

Cheers,

TBird1

[Duncan Rounding]

For catalog wrap a link around NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE</a> in Act_Primary.
For brochure wrap a link around NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO</a> in Act_BrochurePrimary.

[TBird1]

For catalog wrap a link around NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE</a> in Act_Primary.
For brochure wrap a link around NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO</a> in Act_BrochurePrimary.

Sorry Drounding - I'm an HTML/Actanic Novice. Would you mind spelling out a little more detail for me - step-by-step fashion ?

I know how to locate and open an Actinic html file for editing in Notepad and to copy/paste etc - but entering my own html coding is still a no-no for me.

TBird1

[Duncan Rounding]

First make backup copies of Act_Primary.html and Act_BrochurePrimary.html in the SIte1 folder. Then in notepad:
1. Open Act_Primary and search for NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE then replace that with:
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE</a>
Save and close.
2. Open Act_BrochurePrimary and search for NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO then replace that with:
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO</a>
Save and close.

If you have a different page name for your acatalog homepage then replace index.html accordingly. (perhaps shop.html)

[TBird1]

First make backup copies of Act_Primary.html and Act_BrochurePrimary.html in the SIte1 folder. Then in notepad:
1. Open Act_Primary and search for NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE then replace that with:
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE</a>
Save and close.
2. Open Act_BrochurePrimary and search for NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO then replace that with:
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO</a>
Save and close.

If you have a different page name for your acatalog homepage then replace index.html accordingly. (perhaps shop.html)

Chears Drounding - I'll give this a go now.

TBird1

[Martin]

First make backup copies of Act_Primary.html and Act_BrochurePrimary.html in the SIte1 folder. Then in notepad:
1. Open Act_Primary and search for NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE then replace that with:
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:LOGOIMAGE</a>
Save and close.
2. Open Act_BrochurePrimary and search for NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO then replace that with:
<a href="index.html">NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO</a>
Save and close.

If you have a different page name for your acatalog homepage then replace index.html accordingly. (perhaps shop.html)

Hi

I tried this and got a page not found error, so put a / before index, i.e. "/index.html.

This improved things, except when already on the home page. If the logo is clicked then that gives a page not found error.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks


Martin

[jont]

Martin - this is a paths issue ... the /index.html works fine as the / tells the browser to look in the parent directory for the homepage (ie the root of the site) ... when you are in the root of the site on the homepage it is trying to find the page at a higher parent level still .. which does not exisit.

The quickest solution to avoid multiple templates is to use a full link to the page eg: http://www.domain.com/index.html which is known as an absolute path and not a relative path as you have at the moment

HTH

[Martin]

Martin - this is a paths issue ... the /index.html works fine as the / tells the browser to look in the parent directory for the homepage (ie the root of the site) ... when you are in the root of the site on the homepage it is trying to find the page at a higher parent level still .. which does not exisit.

The quickest solution to avoid multiple templates is to use a full link to the page eg: http://www.domain.com/index.html which is known as an absolute path and not a relative path as you have at the moment

HTH

Thanks for your reply.

Is this an OK thing to do in regards to Actinic, and the way it generates pages from the templates.

I know it will work, just worried it may cause problems in the future when I have completely forgotten about what I've done here.


Cheers

Martin

[pinbrook]

absolute paths are fine.

I often use them to reduce the confusion of relative paths

[jont]

Absolute link paths are fine as Jo says - it is absolute links to images that Actinic will throw up a warning about .. even they are OK so long as you ensure your path is correct and remember a snapshot will not add in the image.

All my navigation links are absolute to prevent the cgi-bin in the URL and to cut down on the number of templates that need maintaining at different levels of the site

[Martin]

Thanks, that's good to know!

Martin