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Menu's and Navigation
Your website will come with pre-designed, pre-installed menu and
navigation elements such as a Vertical Navigation bar.
Your menu bar with be for use with FrontPage, or it will be a CSS text based
menu for Dreamweaver.
We have packaged the FrontPage website with the default FrontPage navigation,
and of course, the Dreamweaver websites with the CSS text based menu.
Here are a list of the common questions that we receive. I've covered most of
these questions in a more detailed video tutorial, but I'll answer what I can in
short form below.
Menu and Navigation FAQ's
Common Troubleshooting Topics
Answers!
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What is the difference between FrontPage menu's and CSS menu's ?
- FrontPage has a built in Navigation or Menu Creation tool called the
Navigation VIEW or window. By dragging and dropping your web pages into
the navigation VIEW, you can create a navigation set up, which is also
used to create a Navigation Menu. There many features of the FrontPage
navigation window that will save you OODLES of time, once you learn your
way around this area of FrontPage.
- The CSS menu, does not require ANY Navigation window, it's just a
'bullet' list, with some CSS styles applied to it, that make it appear
as if it were part of a Navigation system. You can easily replace
buttons in the CSS Text menu, as easily as you can add and remove lines
of text from a list.
- Can I have
different menu's on different pages?
- Yes, with FrontPage you would create a Custom Link bar, and attach
just the pages you wanted displayed in that link bar
- With CSS, you can create as many new or varied menu bars as you
need. Just duplicate the 'include' or lib page, edit and paste.
- How do I add a new
FrontPage menu button?
- How do I remove a
FrontPage menu button?
- How do I
change the name on the FrontPage menu button?
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How
do I edit the Horizontal text links at the top of the page?
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How do I edit the Horizontal menu buttons at the bottom of the page?
- How do I edit the CSS
(vertical) menu?
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How do I change the font (type, size, color) used in the FrontPage menu
buttons?
Common Troubleshooting Topics
My two bits. The most common issues we deal with, are hosting issues.
If your website looks good on your computer, it should look exactly the
same when you publish it. If it doesn't it's a connection of hosting
issue. There's no magic answer, as what you see is what you get, or you
should get.
We've dealt with hundreds of hosting companies, some are excellent,
some I would be happy to print my thoughts about, but won't. What is
fairly common with hosting companies is the various levels of support.
The first person you speak with, might not have all the answers.
Especially in dealing with FrontPage server extension issues. You may
need to press a bit, and ask that any hosting related issues that are
not being resolved be 'escalated' to the 'next' tier or level of
customer support.
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FrontPage: I see my menu buttons on my local website, but when I
publish the website, all I see is text
- All the files in your website did not publish correctly.
This mostly happens when publishing with FrontPage 2000 or FTP
- You will need to Re-publish the website
- You may need to 'wipe' the website clean, and start
again, as some files may not be 'updating' or 'over writing'
old files
- You may need to log into your LIVE site via FrontPage
and:
- click on the Tools menu
- click on Re-calculate hyperlinks
Here are my words of Advice, or Warning
In MANY CASES if you are hosting with a budget web host,
you will receive budget service and support. If you're paying
anywhere from $2-$5 / month (or less) for hosting, there is a pretty
good chance that your web host has 'filled' the server that your
website is on, with, oh lets say, a few hundred other websites. If
you are not able to completely publish your website, try publishing
when 'traffic' would be slower (late a night). If you're on a
crowded server, there is a more likely chance that your files cold
be interrupted when publishing.
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FrontPage: I see my menu buttons on my local website, but when I
publish the website, all I see is a missing image with a red 'X'
- As with the text issue noted above, your files did not publish
correctly.
- You will need to Re-publish the website
- You may need to 'wipe' the website clean, and start again, as
some files may not be 'updating' or 'over writing' old files
- You may need to log into your LIVE site via FrontPage and:
- click on the Tools menu
- click on Re-calculate hyperlinks
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FrontPage: I don't see any menu buttons on my page?
- Do you see anything resembling:
- [Add this page to your Navigation view to display hyperlinks
here]
- If so, change to the Navigation view (click on the 'View' menu
at the top of FrontPage, and select 'Navigation'
- Drag the page from the folder list on the left, and add it to
the 'navigation' tree
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FrontPage: I want the text in my menu button to align differently
than the default settings
- You can edit the theme from the buttons, however there are some
'drawbacks' to changing the alignment
- alignment can be set to left, right or center
- there is no 'buffer' when set to left or right, the text
will be jammed up against the edge of the button
- If Alignment is an issue, then switch from the FrontPage default
menu bar, to the CSS Text based menu bar where you can control the
alignment and padding of the text on your buttons
- You can switch 'menu's buy changing the menu bar on the
'includes/a7A-vertical-menu-frontpage.htm' page. Just open the
a7B-vertical-menu-CSS.htm page, copy the menu and paste into the
a7A-vertical-menu-frontpage.htm page
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