Contact us Link

[hweb]

Hi there, I know it is possible as done it before but for the life of me cannot remember what I done the last time. What am i on about?, I changed the destination of the contact us links both along the top and down the side to point to another url but since updating the computer this information has to be reinstalled but I cannot remember what i did the last time to do it. Any help please would be a plus. Many thanks, Steve

[davidfromvision]

Hi I think I understand you :)
however im not sure what you mean by side bars to link to an external url use the [LINK] option in the fragment details then tick the link box and enter the url in the box.

hope this helps.

[hweb]

Cheers for reply. I have used the curves theme and the navigation links on the left point to various pages, one being the Actinic contact page along with the text link along the top. I want both these links to point to a page outside of actinic. Hope it helps

[Bruce]

Hi,

You will need to open Act_Primary.html and look for

td><a href="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAILLINK" target="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAILTARGET"><img name="lmenu_contactus" src="lmenu_contactus.gif" width="175" height="51" border="0" alt="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAILTEXT"></a></td>

here change
<a href="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAILLINK" target="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAILTARGET"> to read
<a href="URL to your Contact us form page"> leave the rest as it is to retain the design.

For the contact us link on the navigation bar on the top, you will have to Design | Options | Navigation .. Send mail Icon, delete the text against it, which will be 'Contact Us' and also delete the images mail1.gif and mail2.gif.

Once done click on apply. Now back to Act_Primary.html and look for NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE and right after it add
[<a href="URL to your Contact us form page" img src="mail1.gif"><strong> Contact Us </strong></a>]

Save and exit. You should now be able to see the change in preview. Upload your site and it should be fine.

Kind regards,

[Hatticus]

hmmm.. I dont actually have that in my Act_Primary.html. If it were there, that would be fine and I could have fixed that earlier.

Was struggling with related to this earlier today.

I have an existing contact form that I wish to link to ... and I cannot for the life of me find the relevant bit.

In my Act_Primary.html I had


<td align="right">
NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE
</td>

After reading the help file about replacing the nav bar with the individual elements, I have now edited it to : -

<td align="right">
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBHOME
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOG
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBUP
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCART
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCHECKOUT
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSITEMAP
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSEARCH
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBINFO
NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBLOGIN
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAIL -->
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBBACK -->
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE -->
</td>

in an attempt to introduce my own button for "Contact Us" at a later stage

However, if I could find how to edit NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAIL, that would make my life a lot easier. Where abouts is this? :)

[hweb]

Many thanks for help. All okay again.

Steve

[wjcampbe]

Hatticus,

Are you talking about pointing the existing mail buttons to point to your own Contact Us page instead of the Actinic generated page?

On Design | Options navigation tab, delete the words Contact Us and the references to mail1.gif and mail2.gif leaving those boxes blank - now actinic will not produce a Contact Us link in the Nav Bar.

Add your own code - with the correct html page name - like this
<A HREF="MyCustomContactForm.html class="actxxsmall" onMouseOver="SwapImage('hnavb_mail','../mail2.gif')" onMouseOut="RestoreImage()"><span class="actxxsmall">Contact Us</span></A>
into the list of NETQUOTEVARS where you want it to show.

[Hatticus]

thank wjc... that was the break I needed. Commenting it out as a separate item was one way... yet that makes more sense to me.

Adding individual custom link now.

[GAViN™©]

I did what you suggested however the form is shown in a FULL window not within the MAIN BODY of the webpage :rolleyes:

[wjcampbe]

Gavin - if you are talking about the site in your profile - that is framed, and would require an additional attribute telling the page which frame it should target.