I am a newbie at all of this Please help!!!

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I am a newbie at all of this Please help!!!

Poster: ec
Dated: Friday September 13 2002 - 5:35:27 BST

I am just learning about all of this web design and I had a question about the script for the scrolling nav bar. I have been using Front Page 2002 and I am learning Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 (Just started) I have a current nav bar that I really like and I would like to keep it. I would like to make it scroll down the page but I am not sure how to manipulate the script so that it will use the bar I have. Heck I am not sure how to paste the script in correctly. My site is currently in Front Page 2002 and as I get more comfortable with DW 4 I will switch it over or recreate. I have shared boarders on in the FP 02 and the nav bar is in the boarder. I can't seem to figure out how to attach the script to the bar. When I switch to the html view in FP I can't even find the code for the nav bar nor can I find any coding for the shared boarders.
Should I ditch the boarders and put a nav bar on each page?
Any help would be wonderful.
Thank you in advance
E

Poster: John
Dated: Saturday September 14 2002 - 20:01:58 BST

ec -

Since you didn't provide a URL for us to work with (always do that), I'm going to have to make some assumptions on what you're looking for.

First a general comment (from me, not the menu folks) - get off FP :!:

Really makes it tough to work with the code, and manages to over-write stuff you put in anyway. Junk (IMHO). Also, since you already have UltraDev why not move up to Studio MX? You'll get a special upgrade price and it's a great product.

As for 'pasting in the script' - don't. Stick the files (array and mmenu) anywhere on your disk and just call them as the first items in your <body>...

Code:

<script language="JavaScript" src="/sai/templates/menu_array.cfm" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="/sai/templates/mmenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Adjust for your location, of course.

Assumption - you now have a graphic menu you would like to keep as the main menu and add subs from this script to that? If correct, see http://westcgi.west.asu.edu/sai/ as an example. That menu was originally a single graphic contained in a table cell. Now it is 5 separate graphics that scroll down the page and pop subs off each as needed. Make the individual graphics and call them in the menu like this...

Code:

,"<img border=0 src=/sai/graphics/home.jpg>","show-menu=home",,,1
,"<img border=0 src=/sai/graphics/staff.jpg>","show-menu=staff",,,1
,"<img border=0 src=/sai/graphics/tech.jpg>","show-menu=tech",,,1
,"<img border=0 src=/sai/graphics/edit.jpg>","show-menu=edit",,,1
,"<img border=0 src=/sai/graphics/about.jpg>","show-menu=about",,,1

Place them on your page as necessary (the code above puts them in a horizontal format with a divider between each), then adjust your subs for their placement.

The comments Andy has provided in the array file should help you understand what each item does.

Industrial Strength JavaScript and DHTML Menus

I am a newbie at all of this Please help!!!