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XARA drop down menu with Layer

Asked by: alfatec

Hi, I am in the process of building my school website. I am using Xara menumaker for the navigation bar. Now to hold the navigation bar in place on top of the main image
I have placed it inside a table which sits inside a layer. Now everything looks and works great in Internet explorer but as soon as I go to Safari the layer moves to a different place and the submenus also move to a different area. I have two questions: Is there anyway of making sure the layer stays in the same place for both browsers or can I somehow place the layer inside the image. My website is www.alfateccomputers.co.uk. Any advice would be most helpful.

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Answers

 

by: tinaalicePosted on 2005-06-01 at 17:17:06ID: 14127017

Don't use the postioning your using ... It does not work the same in all browsers... just use a cell to put the menu where you want it. With your graphic use it as part of the background of the cell (you will need to make some white space around the graphic in your graphic editor so one cannot see the tiling) Or split the graphic and just colour the background of the cell where the menu is and have the diamond points bit of the graphic on the right hand cell ... with the unicorn bit on the above cell .. the dark purple at the top could be cut out and you could use a cell there with that colour as the background .. .you need to reduce your graphics on the page .. and optimise them. The flash file is rather large, They also need alt attributes (tags) and the background of the page needs configuring.

hope this helps
Tina

 

by: alfatecPosted on 2005-06-02 at 09:03:26ID: 14132028

Many thanks for that Tina. As you can see I am abit of a beginner. I presume when you say they need alt attributes that is the bit when you hover your mouse over the picture and it tells you what the picture is. And one last question, what needs configuring in the background of the page. Have optimised all the pictures in Photoshop to as low as I can get them without losing the full quality of the picture but will see if I can get them lower. Many thanks for your help on this it is very much appreciated.

 

by: RecipeDanPosted on 2005-06-03 at 13:07:17ID: 14142853

XARA has a frontpage component.

So when you are in FrontPage.

1. Create a table where you want to place the XARA navigation bar on your web page.

2. Then go to Insert and then XARA (menumaker or webstyle, which ever one you have).

3. Create your navigation bar in XARA and then save it. Once you save it, XARA will close and FrontPage will reappear.

4. Save your web page and test it. By doing it this way it wouldnt matter what browser you use.

As for the pictures, I would use the autothumbnail feature in FrontPage.

 

by: tinaalicePosted on 2005-06-03 at 16:37:53ID: 14143964

Yes that's right ... right click the picture and choose picture properties, choose the general tab and under Alternative Representations insert a description of the graphic.

for backgrounds

Right click on the background of a page
choose Page properties
Go to the Formatting tab
go to 'Colour's | 'background' and choose your background colour

or of course you can use CSS sheet embeded or external.

hope this helps
Tina

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