If you want to use the navbar wizard for building the navbars automagically,
then you must use one of the navbar choices provided, as far as I know.
However you can build you own. You will just have to manually insert the
links to the other pages and manually manage the navigation system for your
site.
If you ungroup any of the navbar 'buttons' provided you will find they are
made up of an image, a text box and a 'hot spot' hyperlink. You can build a
new set of navbar buttons by using different 'button images' that you get
from any number of sources or even build yourself. One important thing to
note that in Publisher 2003 you *must* ungroup the navbar buttons or they
will not render with IE8. This is true of any design elements that are
grouped together. If you install the Office 2007 sp2, then the standard
navbar buttons that are grouped render ok, so I assume that this would also
mean that any navbar buttons you build that are grouped would also render,
but I haven't tested it.
You can try some javascript or CSS menu scripts by inserting the code into
the Publisher page using the insert html code fragment feature. You just
have to be careful as some javascript menus create problems for the search
engine indexing bots. Google for many free examples.
Also don't be afraid of using a simple textual menu. Sometimes the "KISS"
approach is best. The menu should not be the most prominent feature on the
page. Easy and obvious navigation is what is most important. Instead of
worrying about how your navbars look, then concentrate on how clear the
navigation works and the content of each page...that is what should be most
important.
Just some of my thoughts...
DavidF
