[EAO SMak]

I'm posting after this topic has reached it's climax, but I'll give my two cent's anyway. I got stuck building the website for my company and low and behold I never had to do anything like that before. This undoubtedly put's just a we bit a pressure on someone when the bosses are going to go through it with a fine tooth rake. I cannot tell you how much DreamWeaver MX has saved my patuty. I was able to build multiple pages with whatever I needed in them with total ease. The great thing about this program is that you can have a web view and code view window open at the same time. So as you insert pictures or links or whatever, you can actually go and see what the code is and how it got there (so to speak). It helps with understanding the basics. As I prgogressed I was able to just key in the proper code where I needed it. Not that I'm a guru or anything, but it's like a crash course on HTML. I'm not trying to sell Dreamweaver, but if you need to do something nice, fairly quickly and have no idea where to start, this will save your tail. It's also not a bad idea to go to websites you like or contain things that will be similar to what you want on yours and view the source. Kinda like cheating, but it also gives you a good idea of "how the heck" they did what they did.

Nice one there BadBoyz

[BadBoyz]

hey SMak, good to hear all is well, now i will be comming to you for help and reguards cheating by looking at other sites, naw bud, not cheating, when you have something that is blank in front of you..... well inspiration is all ya need
congrats

[Smee]

EAO van, on Sep 5 2005, 12:43 PM, said:

i hav'nt any problems with adding content to the page, the problem i have is with the navigation bar it just doesnt want to add one, all i need is a simple bar across the top

any help would be very much appreciated

While I would like to appear organized, it ain't so. However, I have found that a little bit of planning will save you a great deal of headaches!

I create a single page which I save as a template for my site. I like all pages to have a similar flavor / look throughout my sites. You can easily make changes for any page as needed. However, when you build your template, include your navigation information on the template page.

The best way for ME is to use a program which creates a navigation bar which is saved as a seperate file. That way, if something changes, you only have to edit the menu once, not edit every page on your site. My personal favorite is Sothink DHTML Menu Builder at http://www.sothink.com (Under $40). It integrates cleanly into Frontpage to allow you to make a "Dynamic HTML" menu while building a page. All coding is done for you, you just need to decide how you want it to look, animated or not, etc.

Take a look at these sites built using Sothink's HTML editor (replacement for Frontpage) and DHTML editor:

http://www.qliteradio.com (navigation bar by DHTML Menu Builder)
http://tracker.ahgweb.com (navigation bar by DHTML Menu Builder)

A similar concept using a flash program (Glanda by Sothink--- also less than $40.00)

http://www.ahgweb.com (navigation by Flash Menu)
http://www.tiler2.com (navigation by Flash Menu)