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Figure 3-2: Flat (top) and hierarchical (bottom) navigation structures.
A hierarchical structure, the bottom one in Figure 3-2, looks like a pyramid,
with general information presented first in upper pages (usually the home page)
and more specific information presented lower in the structure. In a hierarchi-
cal structure, an upper page is said to be a parent page to the child pages
below it.
Changing
Navigation
View
Names
If an imported page already has a page title, when you add it to the web’s
navigation structure, the page title will become the default Navigation view
name. The problem arises when, more often than not, an existing page title is
either inappropriate or too long to be fully displayed by a page’s icon in Navi-
gation view. (See Figure 3-3.) Further compounding the problem is that
Navigation view names are used as labels for page banner components and
buttons in link bars. So if the Navigation view name is long, the labels in
those elements will be truncated!
Figure 3-3: Long page titles are often truncated in Navigation view.
Changing the page’s Navigation view name solves this problem. (To change a
page’s navigation name, select a page in Navigation view, press [F2], type a
new name, and press [Enter].) This does cause a new problem. Because an
existing page’s title becomes the default Navigation view name, changing the
Navigation view name overwrites the page’s original title. So, for example,
changing a page’s default Navigation view name from “VOP: Products” to
“Products” also changes the page’s page title to “Products.”
Fixing Overwritten Page Titles
After a page has been added to Navigation view, you can modify the page’s
properties and enter the old page title without affecting the new Navigation
view name.
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