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Link Bars and Navigation Bars
Goal for today: Create a navigation bar
(link bar) for a
small web site.
What's a nav(igation) bar?
Look at the top of this page. The
buttons you see there allow easy navigation to the pages of this module. The set
of buttons is called a "nav" bar, or a "link bar." FrontPage makes it easy to
create a link bar.
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Three kinds of link
bars.
- Link Bar
with
custom links
- Link
Bar
with back and next buttons,
- Link
Bar
based on navigation structure.
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First, Part I:
To learn how to make the first two types of Link Bars, we will do the a
Microsoft Tutorial. After you have completed the tutorial, return
to this module and we will learn how to create a link bar based on
navigation structure.
Go to this site and do the tutorial:
Hyperlinks
II: Link bars and image maps
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Now: Part II: How to create a Link Bar using Navigation Structure:
You must have already created the navigation structure for your Web
site in Navigation view.
Open your Web site in page view.
Click in your page at the point where you want to add the link bar.
On the menu bar, use Insert | Navigation.
In the Component type list, click "Link
Bars" in the left pane, and "Bar with navigation structure" in
the right pane. Then click "next".
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Click the link bar style that you want to use for this
link bar. Then click "next".
Choose the orientation of
your
bar; vertical or horizontal, and then click Finish.
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In the next box, click the
hyperlink options for the link bar that you want to add. This
selects what pages will be on your link bar. Choose, then click OK.
 What do those
levels mean on that pane?
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Parent Level - bar will contain links to all
pages one level higher that the current page.
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Same Level - bar will list all pages on the
same level as the current page.
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Back and Next - bar will list two pages, the
one immediately left of the current page, and the one immediately right
of the current page.
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Child Level - bar will include all pages
that have the current pages as their parent.
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Global level - bar will include the home
page any others drawn at the same level.
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Child pages under home - bar will include
all pages one level below the home page.
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Note than on the right you check to show
additional pages - Home and Parent
You will need to copy and
paste your link bar onto the other pages of your site.
If you add pages to
your website, you must also add them to your Navigation View so they will
show in your Link Bar.
If the link bar does not show the pages you
want it to on a particular page, you can change the properties of the
link bar on that page so that it will show your chosen links. Link
bars on other pages will not be changed.
Use Tools | Site Settings and click the
Navigation tab to change the default names of some of the labels.
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