Another Noob question about index page layout,

[Anterweb]

I have orinted out all 196 pages of the advanced user guide and spent the last week absorbing as much as possible,

I am making steady progress and starting to get the feel for how teh design aspect of actinic works, however I am now stuck again

I am trying to have on my index page Images ( with links ) to my catagories,

Like in this image here http://www.bigpinkhippo.com/cats.jpg

I know thisn is possible as I have seen many actinic users using the same kind of layout.

If anyone could give me an idiots guide on how to achive this or point me in the right direction I would so much appreciate it.

My current build looks like this

www.digi-com.co.uk

Thanks in advance

[Firecom]

What i did is make the images as banners in photoshop (so as to look nice)

Then created fragments on the home page for each product or section.

attached the images to the fragments (had a layout problem so added them as image only without the fragment title showing. With the title showing they displayed off centre. title wasn;t needed anyway as the banner explains all re the product.

then set the fragment as linkable (links tab on fragment, tick image is clickable, click url and add the url to the the box next to it. ie laptops.html for a section or dell_netbook.html for a product).

You can find the url link in the section page or product section page.

All done

did this for linking to info pages etc too and for building our own store nav bar.

hope this helps.

[Anterweb]

Thanks for that dude,

Took me a bit of messing around but my first test using your methos worked a treat!, I can now go back and spend some time getting it to look how I want it,

Thanks again dude!!

[fergusw]

You could also use an image map utilising HTML in a fragment text field, for example, to achieve this as well.
Simply surround the image map html by !!< and >!! in the fragment text field to identify the contents as HTML to Actinic.
e.g.

!!<
<img src ="planets.gif"       width="145" height="126"       alt="Planets"       usemap ="#planetmap" />
      
      <map id ="planetmap"       name="planetmap">
              <area shape ="rect" coords ="0,0,82,126" href ="sun.htm" alt="Sun" />
              <area shape ="circle" coords ="90,58,3" href ="mercur.htm" alt="Mercury" />
              <area shape ="circle" coords ="124,58,8" href ="venus.htm" alt="Venus" />
      </map>
>!!

Hope this gives you another option.

Incidentally, I couldn't resist....... dude

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Dude (dūd, dyūd) n:

a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Synonyms: dandy, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
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[Duncan Rounding]

...
Dude (dūd, dyūd) n:

a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Synonyms: dandy, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse...

clotheshorse??

[Darren B]

clotheshorse??

When i was younger thats what i resembled when i wore a suit, these days with the extra pounds they fit just fine

[Anterweb]

erm, Sorry about the "dude" thing, I kinda just type as I speak and I still think Im an 18yr old skateboarder not a 32 yr old fart!

[fergusw]

No apology needed.
It was the

Thanks for that dude,
Thanks again dude!!

reiteration that made me look it up in the first place.

Just like HTML there are many ways to say and do things. As long as the message get across.......