shared borders?

[Susan]

I have read that use of shared borders is made obsolete by effective use of
included content. But if you want to use the custom links based on the
navigational view, don't you have to use the shared borders because the
shared borders will differ from page to page based on the hierarchy in the
navigation?

I read in another post that if you designed your page so that it was
centered with margins on each side, you could not use shared borders. You
would have to code your links for each page individually unless each page
was the same. But initially you would have to put the included content on
each page.

Isn't shared borders and links base on the navigational view dependent on
each other?

Susan

 

[Sam Johnson]

No. Try it.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Actually Shared Border are somewhat replaced by the Dynamic Web Templates, and you can use FP
navigation components with the DWTs as well as using FP Include Page component.

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[Susan]

Thanks, I will have to look at the tutorials referenced by Tina below. But I
am missing how you would use navigational components with FP Include Pages.
You would have to insert the included page on whatever page you wanted it.
Wouldn't all included info look the same on each page regardless of the
hierarchy?

 

[Ronx]

No. The navigation bars take on the links that pertain to the page they are
in.
When a shared border, or include-page is inserted in a webpage, any link
bars assume the "shape" required for the webpage.
Shared Borders are just include pages with an easier insertion method.

Same principles apply to DWTs - These are Shared Borders big sibling.