Adding personal buttons in a shared border

[Guest]

Sorry if there is an obvious answer, but I've played around with this and got
nowhere.

I want a common top border on all pages, except the home page. In the border
I want 8 button shapes of different colours, each of which have a link. The
links will go to the child pages under the home page, as well as the home
page, except that on a child page I don't want a link to itself!

I don't want any of the standard navigation buttons - I want to create my
own oval ones, but if I try using shared borders I can't seem to create
them. I tried creating them in photo software and inserting them into FP, but
ended up with squares behind each button - I want the background to be the
same as the web page. I've tried using layers as well.

I don't know much about dynamic web templates but they didn't look as if
they'd help, and I don't actually need them as its only me making any changes.

Any ideas please? Thank you.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

all images are square or rectangular. you have to create either a transparent gif/png where the extraneous portion of the image is to create the illusion of a oval or circle OR make that area the same color as your bg color. You would do this in your image editing program (photoshop, paint shop pro, etc).

ps. shared borders will drive you nuts in the long run. look into using included pages in a table (simplest method..imo)

 

[Ronx]

Since you mention Dynamic Web Templates it is likely you are using FP2003.
Have you looked at Interactive Buttons? These are various shapes and
colours.

However, using IBs or your own buttons you will have to make the navigation
bar yourself on every page. Using Shared borders and Include pages will
give you a link on every page for every page, including the open page. (and
DWTs are much better than shared borders and includes, even if you are the
only editor.)

Using a theme is the an other way to use a common file for the navigation,
but this restricts you to one button colour for every page (produce your own
buttons and modify a theme to use them), though the "link to itself" aspect
will be sorted.

The best solution is to use server-side scripting to display the navigation
bar on each page. The script can be written to exclude buttons for open
pages, and use your own buttons for the other pages. You will have to write
the script in whatever technologies your host supports (ASP, asp.NET, PHP,
Perl/CGI etc.)

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for the replies. Shared borders and indeed photoshop are already
driving me a little crazy - I've made the background to my creation in
photoshop transparent but it still shows as white when I insert into FP...

I should say I'm not normally a web developper - so I may have found my way
to the wrong forum. Had years in IT but now setting up own business and doing
site.

Yes I have FP 2003, and looked at IBs - look great but discarded because
couldn't insert into shared border. I could create my own buttons for each
page but propose 100s pages. Been looking at themes, but so far only got to
'customise, graphics, horizontal navigation, insert picture' which then does
not show up.

Sounds like DWTs may be the route, unless I can get more of a handle on
themes.
Can I confirm that even if I could get 8 buttons in a theme, you are saying
I could only make them 1 colour? If so then I can discard that idea.

Sounds like server-side scripting might be beyond me at the moment, until I
have more time to focus on what is required.

Thanks for the help.