Netquotevar:footerguide?

[Dragen]

Hi,
I'm pretty sure that NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE is the part of code that sets the menu for my sctinic site and I really want to edit how it's displayed.. can anyone tell me which file contains the variable or whatever for NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE? or if there is another way of changing that bit?

Thanks,
Lee

[jont]

Take a look in the site1 folder for templates starting Act_Navigation??.html .. there are several depending if using text of images.

[Dragen]

thanks!
this may be a simple question, with a simple answer, but how do I switch from using images in my menu, to using text?

thanks,
Lee

[jont]

If you look in the template the image version (or the text version) will be shown commented out .. simply swap them over to use the other it its place

[Dragen]

Thankyou again.

I've switched it round so that it's now text instead of images, which is better suited to my needs.
I still can't figure out how to do exactly what I need though..
basically I would like each item on the menu in a seperate <td> of a table, which is simple enough. I just add thte <td> around the text code within the Act_Navigation files.
The problem is that I want each <td> to have a different background to it..
for example..

<tr><td style="background-image:url(image1.gif);">menu item1</td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-image:url(image2.gif);">menu item2</td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-image:url(image3.gif);">menu item3</td></tr>

I don't want to set the menu items as images, with the backgrounds, because the menu items have a tenencie to change places depending on what page your are viewing... Moving up or down as different items are displayed.
What I'm trying to do is set it so that the first table cell has a certain background no matter what item is in it...

Sorry about the long message. I hope someone can help me.
Thanks

[jont]

To change the background dynamically you are going to need some form of script in there to query the page and set the background accordingly - this would be a snip in v8

[jont]

You are best wrapping the image name between single quotes 'image.gif' so Actinic should pick the image up as part of the upload proceedure and save adding to the additional file list

[Dragen]

Thanks for the help!
I've sorted the problem, by creating a seperate image and placing it in the background of the entire menu. I didn't want to do this originally, because I wanted to use the same images as on the rest of my website for cacheing purposes, speeding up loading time.

Thanks again for all the help.
Lee

[Dragen]

oh, I've just realised that forsome reason, whenever I view a page.. such as 'contact' or the homepage, it then displays an image in place of the link to the page I'm viewing. I'm not quite sure why it's doing this, as I'm sure I set it to text on all of the appropriate files...
You can see what I mean here: www.shop.gimppro.co.uk

[jont]

Check the Act_BrochurePrimary into which navigation you are using

[Dragen]

is that the NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE part?

[jont]

Try swapping to the FOOTERGUIDE and see what happens

[Dragen]

that's had a funny effect..
It's worked in the way that it's always text, but now it's showing the site map link, which I've selected to not show. And it's also not showing the link to the actual catalog. I'm not sure what's happened there..

[jont]

You can sidestep the whole FOOTERGUIDE malarky using NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBn ... check out the help or the Advanced User Guide .. each link such as CART, CHECKOUT etc has it's own NAVB variable ... this may provide a more static solution for you across the site as a whole but is still maintained under Actinic (and sometimes easier to style)

[Dragen]

ah, thanks. That's much better. The seperate codes are what I really needed.
Thanks ever so much for all your help I think that's everything sorted now.