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| message from viviwanu on 16 Jul 2004 |
Hi everyone,
I am doing a site in DW using a fixed top frame so that only the content
scroll and the header and nav. buttons stay put. The problem is that if I put
the nav. buttons in the top frame the pop up menu behavior doesn't work - the
menus hide behind the fame! So I had to put all the nav. buttons in the
content frame so that the menus will pop up but they become scrollable. Is
there anyway to resolve this problem?
Here's the link to my site: http://vivianwu.netfirms.com
Please help!
VW
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| jojo replied to viviwanu on 16 Jul 2004 |
Hi
Unfortunately this is a limitation of frames. You will not get the drop
downs to cross the frame borders in a X browser way. Personally I would
ditch the frames and use a flat page unless it is absolutely necessary
to use frames. If this is the case you need to rethink your navigation.
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| christoff915 replied to viviwanu on 16 Jul 2004 |
unfortunately, a pop-up menu will not show across a frame border. it just won't
happen and there's nothing to be done about it. i would suggest looking into
building your site from a template with your pop-up menu housed inside the
template page. it won't make it so the header and navbar content doesn't
scroll, but believe me...it's worth it to not have to deal with frames. frames
are a layout nightmare for most, except those web-fu masters that just have the
skills to master them.
also, if you're using the dreamweaver or fireworks pop-up menus, take a look
at projectseven.com for a few tutorials on how to manually build pop-up menus
that are much more efficient that the built in dreamweaver ones. just a
suggestion.
also, a couple things about your site:
in your gallery, all but 2 of the images show as broken links. you might want
to check and make sure that the img src isn't set to file, which happens
sometimes in dreamweaver.
also, your pop-up menus look a little out of whack with your navbar buttons.
the navbar is textured and the menus are very flat looking. i would suggest
making your navbar elements a little less textured so they look a little better
with the menus. again, just a suggestion.
i hope it helps,
christoff
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| Murray *TMM* replied to christoff915 on 16 Jul 2004 |
I wouldn't agree with your suggestion. Using DW/FW pop-up menus with
templates is likely to give this user new headaches.
This is the very best way to go.
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| viviwanu replied to christoff915 on 16 Jul 2004 |
Thank you christoff !
I absolutely agree with you about the frames in DW. Another thing about DW is
that it doesn't seem to be very stable. I've got DW MX 2004. When I designed
my first site everything was fine. It started having problems with my second
site. The library does not work anymore. It gives images wrong src address,
and error messages just wouldn't quit when I FTP the site. Now my new site is
uploaded for testing and I can see all images on my computer. However, when I
check it on a different computer, some images do not show. Why???
VW
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