When I base the layout of a new page on an external html file that has rollover images, the rollovers don't get preloaded. If I look at the resultant html code I find that the file has two 'body' sections and the only images that get preloaded are the ones in the main template file (eg Act_Primary.html). How do I get round this? What am I doing wrong?
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I woder how you ended up with two <body> tags? How are you creating your designs? Did you just copy the entire code from Act_Primary.html into your external file? If so, then this will not work.
You need to copy the code in the <HEAD> section in Act_Primary into the <HEAD> section of your external file. You then need to copy the contents of the <BODY> tag from Act_Primary.html into the <BODY> tag in the external file. Finally, you need to copy the bulk area (everything in the main table) from the Act_Primary.html file into your external design. You can then save your new file in your 'Site1' folder and select it as the 'Overall Layout' template for the store in 'Design | Options | Layouts'.
That is how you can turn an external file into an overall layout template. Then, add in your extra preloaded files into the <body> tag of your new file like this.... (extra code shown in bold)
onLoad="NETQUOTEVAR:ONLOAD;PreloadImages('image2.gif','image2.gif','image2.gif','image2.gif','image2.gif','image2.gif')" -
preloaded rollovers cont.
Chris,
Thanks for picking up my thread.. I've realised that my original post was a little ambiguous, so here's a more detailed explanation of my problem:
I'm actually trying to add a custom fragment to my homepage. I have changed both Act_Primary.html and Act_BrochurePrimary.html to reflect my own design.
From within Actinic Catalog, I select the Home icon (ie the top of the tree) and then select "New Fragment". I then change the Layout (ie "image and title", "image only" etc, etc) to point to my own custom html file. This file has the graphics and links that I want to appear on my homepage. The "Home" page is based on the Act_BrochurePrimary. When Actinic creates P_SiteRoot_index.html, my fragment (ie the content of my external html file) is added into the BROCHUREBODY area of Act_BrochurePrimary. The resultant P_SiteRoot_index.html file then ends up having two <BODY>'s, one from Act_BrochurePrimary and one from my external html file.
The reason the images from my fragment don't get preloaded is that they are attached to the second <BODY> in the html file which is of course illegal.
I guess I could change my external html file to not have a body but then how would I specify that its images are to be preloaded?Comment
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You need to set the 'Layout' field of the actual home page to your custom file - not the fragment layout. Double-click on the little house icon in Actinic tree to do this.From within Actinic Catalog, I select the Home icon (ie the top of the tree) and then select "New Fragment". I then change the Layout (ie "image and title", "image only" etc, etc) to point to my own custom html file.Comment
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OK thanks. I'm beginning to get to grips with this now.
A more generic question... Do the images that belong to each of a number of fragments on a page get preloaded?
If not, is there a way to make them get preloaded without hacking the resultant html?Comment
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...correction to the above. I mean rollover images.Comment
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So have you created custom rollover images for your brochure fragments then? This does not make any sense. Fragments are just items on a page. I do not see how these can have 'rollover images' - could you give me a page to look at.
Do you actually mean the Actinic icons for brochure pages? These get automatically preloaded by the NETQUOTEVAR:ONLOAD variable within the <body> tag of brochure pages.Comment
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Yes. I've created custom rollover images for my brochure fragments.
I've used the advice you gave elsewhere in this forum for creating fragments side by side on a page. So I have the first fragment defining a table. The next fragment defines cell1, the next cell2 etc. Then I have a fragment that does a new row followed by a few more cells and finally a fragment that closes the table.
Each fragment (cell) has a different product category. I have used the !!< >!! within the fragment text to insert my html. This html sets up a rollover image for that category.
It works.
BUT the rollover images don't get preloaded.
I can give you a URL to look at that shows this but I'd rather not post it to the forum before our site is complete. Can I email it to you directly?Comment
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You need to open the overall layout template for your brochure pages - this is normally called 'Act_BrochurePrimary.html'.
Look at the <body> tag and find where it says
OnLoad="NETQUOTEVAR:ONLOAD"
Edit this in the way as I describe above (in my original reply) to add in the filenames of your images you want to preload.Comment
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OK. Thanks. I was hoping there was a way that this could be done without editing Act_BrochurePrimary. These images will be changing at least weekly so I'll have to edit the filenames in Act_BrochurePrimary each time.
Is this something that might change in future versions? It would be nice if Actinic recognised the presence of a rollover image and updated the 'onLoad' for that page accordingly.
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