Navigation bar help

LittleBigMan · Jan 9, 2005

Hi

I've just created a navigation bar in XARA webstyle 4, which is made of several image components. I have uploaded these to my server and placed in one directory. Can anyone advise what code I should put in the web page in order to get this thing to work

Tried what I thought it was, but alas I had no joy.

Any advice greatly appreciated

Thanks

LBM

D@Z · Jan 9, 2005

whats the URL to it?

samscripts · Jan 9, 2005

Hiya,

Difficult to say based on what you've posted. Did xara generate any html for you at all or just the images? Post it here if it did.

If it only generated the images, then you'll have to write the html yourself to include the images on the page and make them navigation links.

For example:

Code:

<a href="firstlink.htm"><img src="first-nav-gfx.gif" border="0" /></a>
<a href="secondlink.htm"><img src="second-nav-gfx.gif" border="0" /></a>
<a href="thirdlink.htm"><img src="third-nav-gfx.gif" border="0" /></a>
...etc...
...etc...

or something along those lines...

Post the code / filenames that xara generated.

LittleBigMan · Jan 9, 2005

Guys

Thanks for responses. When I Had finished creating the nav bar and saved it, these files were all listed as component parts. I know how to point to an image etc, but this is a different ball game... anyway, here are the files

---.gif
DomainProfiles.html
domainprofiles.js
domainprofiles_b1
domainprofiles_b1_over
domainprofiles_b2
domainprofiles_b2_over
domainprofiles_b3
domainprofiles_b3_over
domainprofiles_b4
domainprofiles_b4_over
domainprofiles_left
domainprofiles_right
xaramenu

Cheers

LBM

LittleBigMan · Jan 9, 2005

XARA didn't generate any code to my knowledge incidentally

samscripts · Jan 9, 2005

whats in the DomainProfiles.html file?

LittleBigMan · Jan 9, 2005

This is in html file Samscripts....

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Webstyle produced NavBar</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="BLACK">
<script src="xaramenu.js"></script><script Webstyle4 src="domainprofiles.js"></script>
</body></html>

LBM

samscripts · Jan 9, 2005

Ok, I'm guessing that that html is meant to display the menu - which looks to be completely written in javascript?.

Check that all the files you have uploaded have the correct file names and file extensions:

For example, that the xaramenu.js file exists, and that all the images you've uploaded have the .gif extension.

Also, that your web-browser has javascript turned on - otherwise nothing will be displayed by that html file.

Not really sure what else to suggest...

LittleBigMan · Jan 9, 2005

OK Samscripts

I'll give it another shot

Cheers

LBM

fisicx · Jan 9, 2005

Can I add my two pennorth.

Java script menus only work if JS is turned on. If you use rollover images then this can get really slow as it takes time to load all the images and JS.

The best menus are text based. Even more effective are CSS menus. This is a big hint: get rid of your javascript menues and check out these guys: Listamatic.

If you do persist with your navigation then make sure the JS does not bloat out your page and make sure you have a text based alternative on every page.

LittleBigMan · Jan 9, 2005

Thanks for your contribution fisicx. I'll see how these compare

Regards

LBM

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