CSS Nav bars...

[lagom]

I would like to edit the default horizontal brochure nav bar to a more SEO friendly text menu than the version with rollover Gifs.

I cannot find any documentation on how to replace a default Actinic menu with a third party one (in my case I would like to insert a CSS menu).

Can anyone offer a link to a tutorial or kindly have the time to offer some advice? I am new to Actinic but familiar with html/css etc.

Thanks,
Ben

[leehack]

Remove the actinic one and create your own instead, much easier if you know html and css.

[Darren B]

on a side note this thread shows how to customise you navigation http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=35767

[lagom]

How to find the URL of a page...?

Remove the actinic one and create your own instead, much easier if you know html and css.

Thanks...

If I were to create a page called 'products' how do I find out what the URL to that page would be in relation to my domain? In other words how does the naming schema work?

Do the links need to be relative?

For example if my domain was www.mydomain.com what would the URL for the page I created called 'products' be?

Ben

[NormanRouxel]

the default horizontal brochure nav

If you're talking about the "Home, Site Map, Search, Checkout, Store, Top Contact Us" list, that's Theme specific and there are about 50 Themes. Many (like Hotshot) use plain text links for this menu.

You could look in the Library for layout "Works Best With Hotshot" and lift the code from there.

[leehack]

If I were to create a page called 'products' how do I find out what the URL to that page would be in relation to my domain? In other words how does the naming schema work?

Look at the page name field on that brochure page or section itself?

Do the links need to be relative?

They can be either.

For example if my domain was www.mydomain.com what would the URL for the page I created called 'products' be?

Depends if you name the page yourself, if not it would generally be what you had called the section + .html of course.

Why not take a few minutes and study the various parts, you won't need to ask silly questions then. When you select or create a section in actinic and there are a number of different tabs for that section, does your curiosity not want to select one or two and have a mooch? If not i'd strongly suggest you leave things bog standard for the time being.

[lagom]

Not using a theme

If you're talking about the "Home, Site Map, Search, Checkout, Store, Top Contact Us" list, that's Theme specific and there are about 50 Themes. Many use plain text links for this menu.

Hi Norman,

What I want to do is to create a css menu from scratch that has nothing at all to with any of the themes. To do this I need to know the naming schema for the links as I am not familiar with the naming schema.

For example if I created a page called 'test.html' would the URL be:

www.mydomain.com/SiteHTML/test.html
/SiteHTML/test.html
/test.html

Or something else!

Cheers,
Ben

[lagom]

Learning...

you won't need to ask silly questions

Thanks for your response but I can't see how it was a silly question! Sure I could spend hours getting to know the site structure etc but I have no intention of becoming an Actinic specialist so I thought I'd just ask as I thought that was what the forum was for!

Of course the name of the page is obvious but in the local site the pages sit in a folder called SiteHTML, which also includes the index page. This would suggest that in the remote site the structure is different?

Therefore the schema for writing URLs is not immediately obvious... so I thought I'd save time and ask!

Ben

[leehack]

Thanks for your response but I can't see how it was a silly question! Sure I could spend hours getting to know the site structure etc but I have no intention of becoming an Actinic specialist so I thought I'd just ask as I thought that was what the forum was for!

Hours getting to know a site structure? oh come on that's something you convince yourself of to excuse not spending any time learning. Upload a site, look at it online, if you are the html coder you say you are, surely you understand that its the location and pagename online that you code a URL to.

Creating one brochure page, one section and uploading to a test space would take 5 minutes max and answer 95% of your questions. The forum is for helping people who get stuck or need a push in the right direction, not for lazy sods who want to put in nil effort to learn.

[lagom]

Point taken...

Creating one brochure page, one section and uploading to a test space would take 5 minutes max and answer 95% of your questions. The forum is for helping people who get stuck or need a push in the right direction, not for lazy sods who want to put in nil effort to learn.

Point taken but I am waiting for a domain to be transferred to a new host so that I can point it to and properly set up hosting on an Actinic server... So at the moment I am only working locally and I haven't discovered a stand alone test server for Actinic!

[leehack]

Domain Name + acatalog (unless changed in network settings) + pagename is your URL for ALL brochure pages (except for the home page which is loaded to site root) and sections created in actinic.

Code your own navbar for brochure pages, but leave actinic to create its own section list. I presume this site is for a client in which case you cannot provide a non-automatic section menu, that is suicide. You need to get to grips with how actinic creates its section menu and style that accordingly, leaving the core function in place. Its called the top level section list and you have a few options to change it in site options already.

[RuralWeb]

When you installed the software you will have been offered free test websiace by actinic. Sign up on thier website