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When you say "Fireworks menu" do you mean "Fireworks pop-up menu"?

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Ahh - yes. Silly me. I see that you really specified that in your original
post.

The nav bar function that you have used is right long in the tooth. If it
were me, I'd rip it out and just use simple image swaps in DW. Then, to
make the selected button stay down you could use this method in your
template page -

Put this in script tags in the editable region called "head" in the template
do***ent, and in each child page -

function P7_downImage() {
var g7="<imagename>"
var g7url="<pathname>"
if ((g7=MM_findObj(g7))!=null) {g7.src=g7url;}
}

and put this in the Template's <body> tag

onLoad="P7_downImage()", e.g.,

<body .... onLoad="P7_downImage()">

Then on each child page you would need to make two edits:

Set g7 to the *name* of the button (not the file name but the HTML name -
e.g., "productsbutt"), and g7url to the pathname to the button (e.g.,
"images/nav/button3.gif"), and bada bing, bada boom!

There is an excellent tutorial here -

http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=126

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Go to

http://www.bsa7153.com/troop/troop_Main.html

for the example

I did not use the dedicated create (popup) menu function. I created button
symbols with links and combined them with a graphic in Fireworks that i then
pulled into Dreamweaver. I then referenced this file and created a .dwt that I
then use for all the pages on the site.
http://www.bsa7153.com
thanks,
DM

Wow, great answer. The problem is i am not nearly as fluent in HTML
coding/scripting as I am in graphics creation/using the tools in
Fireworks/Dreamweaver. I'll check out the tuts and give you suggestion a try
though. Thanks!

By the way, when you put that function in the head region, make sure you
wrap it in script tags, e.g.,

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

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What about creating a more elaborate menu and using server side includes, site wide?

That's an even better way, of course. And making your menu rollovers into
CSS rollovers is the best of all.

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Google CSS rollovers. You'll find more than you can read. Or go here -

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/default.asp

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I have created some pages using the MM CSS template. I love the menu above. Isn't this a CSS rollover? Is there a tutorial or good tutorial or reference site for CSS rollovers?

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3 26th February 08:57 dkmanley External User Posts: 1	symbols and templates Go to http://www.bsa7153.com/troop/troop_Main.html for the example

4 26th February 08:57 dkmanley External User Posts: 1	symbols and templates I did not use the dedicated create (popup) menu function. I created button symbols with links and combined them with a graphic in Fireworks that i then pulled into Dreamweaver. I then referenced this file and created a .dwt that I then use for all the pages on the site. http://www.bsa7153.com thanks, DM

5 26th February 08:57 dkmanley External User Posts: 1	symbols and templates Wow, great answer. The problem is i am not nearly as fluent in HTML coding/scripting as I am in graphics creation/using the tools in Fireworks/Dreamweaver. I'll check out the tuts and give you suggestion a try though. Thanks!

7 26th February 08:57 dkmanley External User Posts: 1	symbols and templates What about creating a more elaborate menu and using server side includes, site wide?

10 26th February 08:57 dkmanley External User Posts: 1	symbols and templates I have created some pages using the MM CSS template. I love the menu above. Isn't this a CSS rollover? Is there a tutorial or good tutorial or reference site for CSS rollovers?