Question

web pages menu works on index but not others

Asked by: IanTh

wierd using dreamweaver cs4 to disign a website for a small hosting co and the menu is only working properly from the index.html not the others its based on a template and its the same so I don't know why really any help

here's my html menu
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<link href="/Templates/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<div id=container>
<div id=leftbar>
</div>
<div id=header><img src="../images/webhotgb-header.jpg" width="724" height="100" alt="www.webhostgb.com" longdesc="http://www.webhostgb.com" /></div>
<div id=rightbar></div>
<div id=mainwindow>

<div id=menustrap>
  <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Web Products</a>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="pers_hosting.html">Personal Hosting</a></li>
        <li><a href="bus_hosting.html">Small Business Hosting</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.dns.webhostgb.com">Domain Registration</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">Support</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Email support</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Raise a support ticket</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Knowlegebase</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#">Network Tools</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Whois</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://dns.webhostgb.com/lookup.html">Lookup</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>


if I pres one of the pers_hosting or bus_hosting they only work from index.html

url: www.webhostgb.com

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2009-11-03 at 15:17:46ID24869312
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Answers

 

by: mrcoffee365Posted on 2009-11-03 at 16:09:34ID: 25735281

It's because you didn't put your links in as full relative paths for your locations.

If you put:
<a href="/pers_hosting.html">
then it will always go to http://yoursite/pers_hosting.html

But if you put it the way you have it:
<a href="pers_hosting.html">
then it will look in the current directory to find a page called "pers_hosting.html" and that page only exists in the top / directory.  Which is why you think it only works from the index.html page, because it's in the root directory of your Web site.

Change all the links in the menu to start with / from the root directory, and it will work in all pages.

 

by: jason1178Posted on 2009-11-03 at 17:48:32ID: 25735720

>> It's because you didn't put your links in as full relative paths for your locations.

Incorrect in this case.  If you look at the other pages, the menu links look like this:

<li><a href="file:///F|/sites/oswaldinns/css/pers_hosting.html">Personal Hosting</a></li>
<li><a href="file:///F|/sites/oswaldinns/css/bus_hosting.html">Small Business Hosting</a></li>

With Templates, this can happen if you start a new page from the Template from the File | New menu option.  Because the new page has yet to be saved in the site structure, it gets a full file:/// URL and not a normal path.  Saving the file should care of this but Templates are still a little buggy, even in CS4 and sometimes the path doesn't rewrite.

I have more success creating a new blank page and saving it to the site where I want it to be and then use Modify | Template | Apply Template to Page.  The path bug doesn't crop up as much with that sequence.

 

by: mrcoffee365Posted on 2009-11-03 at 21:55:01ID: 25736750

Yes indeed, those links are incorrect as well.

 

by: jason1178Posted on 2009-11-03 at 21:58:30ID: 25736759

>> those links are incorrect as well.

In a Templated site, DW is supposed to correct <a href="pers_hosting.html"> to <a href="../pers_hosting.html"> if page is in a lower level folder.

 

by: mrcoffee365Posted on 2009-11-03 at 22:00:23ID: 25736766

Yes, but as you've pointed out, it's bad practice to expect the templates to work completely correctly.  Dreamweaver interferes with paths a lot.  Amazing that after all these years, they still have that bug.

 

by: jason1178Posted on 2009-11-03 at 22:01:54ID: 25736776

>> Amazing that after all these years, they still have that bug.

Two companies, 7 versions and it still gets screwed up.  Hilarious.

 

by: IanThPosted on 2009-11-04 at 12:57:27ID: 31649717

I should have noticed that thanks anyway

 

by: mrcoffee365Posted on 2009-11-04 at 21:31:07ID: 25746998

Thanks and good luck!

It was smart to post your code and the site itself -- it made it much easier to track down the various problems.

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