Pop-Up Menu Link Question

[Lee Williamz webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hello guys/gals -

Only just started using FW so please go easy on me...
Have just created my pop up menu sucessfuly and all works fine. I have my lndex in the root folder with all menu's/ sub menu's in there own folders with in the root. When linking the (pop up) menu from the index everything is fine, but when linking from on of my sub menu pages back to the index it will not look out side the folder its looking in. Every other application has a folder link so you can locate exactly. In the pop up menu link I am very limited.... Can someone tell me where I am going wrong (Please!).

[Murray *TMM*]

Lee:

> but when linking from on of my sub menu pages back to the index it will

not look out side the folder its looking

> in

Yep - that's one of the problems with these menus.

> Can someone tell me where I am going wrong (Please!).

At the risk of sounding cynical and negative, you are going wrong by
electing to use these menus.

They will add at least 35K of code overhead to the first page, as well as a
large dynamic write to each page containing the menus.

You should also know that they link to your files using document relative
links that are hardcoded in your javacript - not only are these links
invisible to the DW link management routines (i.e., when you move a page in
the site, you break the link), but worse, they are also invisible to the
search engine spiders, and accessability requirements. You can solve the
first of these link problems by
converting your links to ROOT RELATIVE links, but you still have no link
management capability through DW should you later rename or move any linked
file. The only way to solve the second problem is to make sure that your
pages have alternate, HTML-based navigation links on them.

I am not fond of these menus (as you have no doubt guessed) and feel that it
is important to know what you are getting into before you may devote much
time to them.

Here are some excellent alternatives with none of these drawbacks -

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/menuing/mcloser/index.htm[/url]

or

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/auto_hide/index.htm[/url]

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"Lee Williamz" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello guys/gals -
>
> Only just started using FW so please go easy on me...
> Have just created my pop up menu sucessfuly and all works fine. I have my

lndex in the root folder with all menu's/ sub menu's in there own folders
with in the root. When linking the (pop up) menu from the index everything
is fine, but when linking from on of my sub menu pages back to the index it
will not look out side the folder its looking in. Every other application
has a folder link so you can locate exactly. In the pop up menu link I am
very limited.... Can someone tell me where I am going wrong (Please!).

>
>

[Murray *TMM*]

Lee:

You're welcome!

Change this (assuming that your arrows.gif image is in the images folder off
the root of the site) -

mm_menu_0205142547_0.childMenuIcon="arrows.gif";

to this -

mm_menu_0205142547_0.childMenuIcon="/images/arrows.gif";

for example (I am making this change in the js that is inserted in the head
region of the page).

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"Lee Williamz" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your reply, very helpful - As I just want to solve the problem

short term please can you explain how I convert my links to Root Relative
links, sure sounds like it will sort the problem. I the mean time I will be
sure to follow your links provided. Thanks again for your reply

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