Ways of setting Navigation for our Site

1. Jump Menus:

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Inserting a jump menu

To create a jump menu:
1. Open a document, and then place the insertion point in the Document window.
2. Choose Insert > Form Object > Jump Menu.

The Insert Jump Menu dialog box appears.
3. Complete the dialog box.
The purpose of this dialog box is to set up a jump menu.
1. Click the plus (+) button to add a menu item.
Click the button again to add additional menu items. Select a menu item and click the minus (-) button to remove an item.
2. Select a menu item, and then use the arrow keys to move it up or down in the list.
3. In the Text field, type the text you want to appear in the menu list for a menu item.
To use a menu selection prompt, such as "Choose One," enter your selection text in the Text field for the first menu item.
4. In the When Selected Go To URL text box, click the folder icon to browse to the file to open, or type the file path in the text box.
5. In the Open URLs In pop-up menu, select a location in which to open the file:
• Main Window opens the file in the same window.
• Frame opens the file in the frame you select.
Note: If the frame you want to target doesn't appear on the Open URLs In pop-up menu, close the Insert Jump Menu dialog box, and name the frame in your document. For information about naming a frame, see Viewing and setting frame properties.
6. In the Menu Name text box, type a name for the menu item.
7. Under Options, select Insert Go Button After Menu to add a Go button instead of a menu selection prompt.
8. Under Options, select Select First Item After URL Change if you use a menu selection prompt (such as Choose One).
4. Click OK.
The jump menu appears in your document.

Download if need be or make your own: or make your own more interesting versions with more pizzaz!
menu_down_01.gif ...........menu_over_01.gif ...... menu_up_01.gif

menu_down_02.gif .... menu_up_02.gif ..... menu_over_02.gif

menu1.htm ... menu2.htm

2. Navigation Bar :
This technique is not difficult although the software I own seems to have some real problems... it won't let me do a horizontal layout although that is what I checked, and it won't let me use school etc.. keeps telling me I can't type what I need to? However, hopefully your version is working. Use the directions on the sheets I handed out. Actually the technique is simple enough to use without directions...

 

shcool life

 

Flash Buttons

Again, quite easy... still easier as you don't have to create the different image states.. however, does require I suspect a Flash player.. which most people should have. You are also limited on your choices of design, though they do look pretty clean to me.
Check out Amazon, mac.com and other sites you use. What are they using?

 

3. Graphical Buttons

We have already done this technique before when you produced your first web page.Simply create a table, make sure your images are all the same size and can fit in the boxes you have provided them. Make sure you use the map tool to show the area you want active and then link it to the page you want to. The question here is can the person tell what you mean from the image you inserted? do you need to put in text on the picture..but then it would have to be too big or can you insert text below it or even the Flash text shown below? All choices.

Another way to do this is:

Creating a graphical Submit button Note- before you can do this you must have all your pics in a source folder ( always a good idea)
You can use images you specify as button icons.

To create a graphical Submit button:
1. In the document, place the insertion point inside the form outline.
2. Choose Insert > Form Objects > Image Field.
3. In the Property inspector for the Image field, change the text in the ImageField
field to Submit.
4. Select the image you want to use as a button by clicking the SRC field's folder icon, and browsing to the image file.
5. In the Alt field, enter any text you want to appear in place of the image for text-only browsers or for browsers set to download images manually.

4. Interactive Flash text

In addition to the above or in substution, we could use the simple to do Insert>Interactive images>Flash text. Again, the technique is so simple I do not need to give you directions. What are the pro's and con's of using this text as links ?

 

 

EMI/11/04 eiglich@mcdaniel.edu