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aloebridge123
12-May-2006, 10:00 PM
Hi,

I'm trying to create an online presentation that customers can click through when on the site.

The only way I believe I'm able to do this is to create individual brochure pages which link to each other by pressing "click here" which is a link to the next page url.

However this page automatically appears in the menu - is there anyway I can design the page but stop it from appearing in the menu?

Please see www.aloeveragifts.com - site in progress!!!. I have a section on here called 'vacancies' and I need this to link to "vacanciesb" page without "vacanciesb" appearing in the menu....

Any ideas?????

Regards

Linda

Current - fully operational site is: www.aloevera-and-you.com
:o :p
RuralWeb
12-May-2006, 10:29 PM
One way would be to hand code the links and not use the actinic generated menu.
aloebridge123
12-May-2006, 10:34 PM
Hi Malcolm,

Thanks for the tip - I'm not that much of a 'techie' unfortunately - I've built the site just from knowledge I've gained - no web design experience at all.

Can you please explain a little more about hard coding and what I'd need to do?

Thanks
Linda
www.aloeveragifts.com
RuralWeb
12-May-2006, 10:49 PM
The menu is created by NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE in the Act_brochureprimary.html template. The easiest way to do it is to use an html editor such as Dreamweaver to open the template and delete the text NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE. You can then add links to the pages you want to link to.

If that is to tech for you - i would wait for a while as one of the others on the forum may have a simpler way.
aloebridge123
13-May-2006, 11:08 AM
Hi,

thanks for this I possibly might be able to do it - but does anyone know of another way?

Regards

Linda

www.aloeveragifts.com
Duncan Rounding
13-May-2006, 11:24 AM
It depends what you want to achieve - we've done a picture slide show in a brochure page:
http://www.fancylines.co.uk/acatalog/Fancylines_News.html (Note: Adult Lingerie Site)
This was created using the Microsoft Power Toy - HTML Slide Show WIzard (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) and just placed it in an iFrame in a brochure fragment.
aloebridge123
13-May-2006, 11:30 AM
Hi,

Thanks that looks good - can you just advise what an iframe is?

Regards

Linda

www.aloeveragifts.com
Duncan Rounding
13-May-2006, 11:39 AM
An iframe is an html tag that allows you to put another web page inside an existing web page. For example you could do this in a brochure fragment:
!<<iframe src="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/Slides/Event/default.htm" width="Xpixels" height="Ypixels"></iframe>>!

or another example even:
!<<iframe src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/" width="500" height="600"></iframe>>!
ro88o
13-May-2006, 02:35 PM
Hi,

Just looked at your site and noticed you're including !< and >! before and after the iframe, these should be removed to leave:
<iframe src="http://www.aloevera-and-you.com/opportunity/default.htm" width="475pixels" height="475pixels"></iframe>

On your default.html page you can then include anchor tags at the bottom like so:
<a href="default2.html" target="_self">Next</a>
The information enclosed in speech marks after href is the page you want your link to go to, the "_self" tells the web browser to load the new page in the iframe hence not affecting the site.

...and then on default2.html include this at the bottom:
<a href="default.html" target="_self">Previous</a> <a href="default3.html" target="_self">Next</a>

... and so on for each vacancies page you need. Hope this helps!
aloebridge123
13-May-2006, 03:04 PM
I've created the presentation in the microsoft software as was suggested earlier.

I've saved the presentation to my site 1 directory in a folder called opportunity.

I have then created a new layout in a brochure page 'fragment' and input the code shown earlier referring to my web address etc...

I've also added the default file to the additional files section.

However..... I can't seem to get the presentation to upload to the internet.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Linda
www.aloeveragifts.com
wjcampbe
13-May-2006, 03:35 PM
Not sure. Which page have you added the iframe to ?

On your home page - I can't find closing <body></html> tags. The Menu is sitting over the top of the Cards Accepted box (Store sections is set to a height of 280 - maybe it needs 350 to clear the menu). The menu is set about 100 pixels left of the rest of the page content - may be other problems - I stopped looking.
aloebridge123
13-May-2006, 03:39 PM
Hi Bill,

I added the iframe to: http://www.aloeveragifts.com/acatalog/Distributor_Opportunities.html

Thanks for info re cards box - site is still in design mode at the mo and I intend to remove this box v shortly.

Regards
Linda
Duncan Rounding
13-May-2006, 03:59 PM
You will need to manually ftp all the presentation up into an online folder called 'opportunity', perhaps at the same level as acatalog. Then the iframe source will be http://www.mydomain.co.uk/opportunity/default.htm
You can look at the source on my link above if it helps.

Edit: Also remove the word pixels from the sizes in the iframe tag - I didn't make this clear. If you upload as I mention then your iframe tag will be:
<iframe src="http://www.aloevera-and-you.com/opportunity/default.htm" width="475" height="475"></iframe>