Link Bars without Themes??

[Roger]

I am getting back to FP after a few years and decided to go "modern" and use
css rather than themes. I am not using Navigation features either.
Unfortunately I find Link Bars handy. I could go "raw" and just have rows of
text but FP allows you to format them like a theme. This adds in the
baggage of a theme, even though I am not using one.

Is there another way to control the appearance of link bars, to make them
bars with selected and non selected states? Or should I not be using link
bars if I am not using themes?

Roger

 

[chris leeds]

I've gotten some good results by using the "plain text" link bars (there are
several choices) and then surrounding it/ them with a <span> that I mark up
on the style sheet. do one for each hyperlink state within the span and do
one for regular text as the text that represents the page you're on isn't an
active link but just plain text.

you can make them look much more like buttons by using display: block;

I have some button looking ones on a layout I'm working on:
http://contentseed.com/

HTH

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Upgrade to FP 2003 and use interactive buttons




| I am getting back to FP after a few years and decided to go "modern" and use
| css rather than themes. I am not using Navigation features either.
| Unfortunately I find Link Bars handy. I could go "raw" and just have rows of
| text but FP allows you to format them like a theme. This adds in the
| baggage of a theme, even though I am not using one.
|
| Is there another way to control the appearance of link bars, to make them
| bars with selected and non selected states? Or should I not be using link
| bars if I am not using themes?
|
| Roger
|
|

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Roger,

The trend today is to use CSS styled menus such as those found at http://www.websunlimited.com/order along the left hand side. They
are extremely fast, much faster and easier to create than images or FP3 Interactive Buttons, and more design control is possible and
they scale, as the number of buttons increases, very well. In fact scaling was the reason that we went with CSS menus as we
continued to add graphic buttons our pages became slower and slower.

You can create them by hand or we offer a tool called CSS Link Bar Menu Maker. CSS LBMM can take your existing Custom link bars and
convert them to CSS LBMM menu that you can apply styles to.

Please see http://www.websunlimited.com/order/Product/CssMenu/css_menu.htm
--
Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97-'02
http://www.websunlimited.com
Need to have an Ad Banner that allow individual links?
http://www.websunlimited.com/order/Product/navigation/adbanner.htm
FrontPage Add-ins Since '97 2003 / 2002 / 2000 Compatible

 

[Roger]

Thanks for the suggestion. I fooled with them a little and it looks like
they may be very usefull.

Should I put the buttons on a page that I include using and Included Page
component? (I don't like shared borders but could use them.)

Is there a way to have a button which links to the current page come up
specially marked?

Is there some tutorial or faq which I should consult on this??

Roger

 

[chris leeds]

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Thanks for the suggestion. I fooled with them a little and it looks like
they may be very usefull.

Should I put the buttons on a page that I include using and Included Page
component? (I don't like shared borders but could use them.)

I like to do this. it's nice because if you change the links later you only
have to do it in one place. plus to do it that way you'll be using the
"custom" link bar which will allow a little more lattitude.

Is there a way to have a button which links to the current page come up
specially marked?

the button to the current page won't be a button but just plain text. you
can style it to look like a button with the .css

Is there some tutorial or faq which I should consult on this??

I don't think there is for this particular scenario but there's a ton of
links and very good .css info here:
http://alistapart.com

HTH

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

No - Interactive buttons are not fully supported in shared borders or include pages
Look at the Dynamic Web Template instead if include pages or shared borders

There is no interactive button state for selected page
- for more info on creating your own IB see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555010



| Thanks for the suggestion. I fooled with them a little and it looks like
| they may be very usefull.
|
| Should I put the buttons on a page that I include using and Included Page
| component? (I don't like shared borders but could use them.)
|
| Is there a way to have a button which links to the current page come up
| specially marked?
|
| Is there some tutorial or faq which I should consult on this??
|
| Roger
|
| | > Upgrade to FP 2003 and use interactive buttons
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[Roger Sipson]

Stefan

Thanks for your help. After working with it for a while, I find I like
Dynamic Web Templates and Interactive buttons. Both are new features since
my last use of FP.

FP could do a little more explaining about DWT. I deleted the doctitle
editible zone because I did not know what it was. When I needed it back I
found the only way was to edit the source code, not the worst thing in the
world.

I really like the control that Interactive Buttons give me over the links.
I do wish there was some way to indicate the current page but I can live
without this.

Roger