DW CS3, Templates and Updatable Navigation

[Demon Design]

Hi Guys,

I wonder if any of you can help me get my brain around this issue.

I'm recreating a site for a client using a Dreamweaver Template as the
foundation which will then be used be Contribute to manage the content.

However I need the user to be able to add new navigational items.

This is were the problem begins.
My solution was to use an Include on the Template of a nav.htm file.
In the nav.htm file I used another template with repeating, editable regions
to create the UL navigation. That way users could edit the nav.htm file in a
controlled way which would then be automatically inserted into the other pages
on the site via the main Template.

You can check out the development site here:
[url]http://www.otsmanagement.com.au/dev/[/url]

The direct link to the nav.htm file is here:
[url]http://www.otsmanagement.com.au/dev/inc/nav.htm[/url]

However, using this method seem to break the main template on subsequent pages
by allowing users to add content OUTSIDE of the editable regions.

Does anyone have a better solution or a fix for the issue?

Thanks in advance
--Neil

[ThinkInk]

Why don't you simplify your solution to an include file with just an ul and provide your user with the url to the file (or telle him yto use the chosse-button, or create a bookmark).

[Demon Design]

That would require the user to have more technical knowledge of HTML.
I need it to be fool proof.

By giving them the data in a repeating region the nav is ALWAYS going to have
a correctly formed LI. All they will need to enter is the name of the nav item
and a link which is easily done in Contribute.

--N

[Demon Design]

That would require the user to have more technical knowledge of HTML.
I need it to be fool proof.

By giving them the data in a repeating region the nav is ALWAYS going to have
a correctly formed LI. All they will need to enter is the name of the nav item
and a link which is easily done in Contribute.

--N

[Demon Design]

That would require the user to have more technical knowledge of HTML.
I need it to be fool proof.

By giving them the data in a repeating region the nav is ALWAYS going to have
a correctly formed LI. All they will need to enter is the name of the nav item
and a link which is easily done in Contribute.

--N

[ThinkInk]

I like the way you try to make it client-proof, so I puzzled some with the
concept.

But I failed... I cannot make this work without problems.
I get the same problem with the editablity outside the editable regions, even
if I place the repeatlist in a php-include (script protection doesn't take care
of it either).

Maybe I will try some more later on...