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Because navigation elements are theme graphics, you can use the Theme
Graphics tab to select coordinated design elements (buttons, etc.) for a
consistent look, and change the overall appearance with a single click. To edit
theme graphic properties such as font, text colour, and mouseover fill colour,
select the object and click its
Edit button. (You can also right-click it
and choose Edit Theme Graphic....) For details, see Incorporating theme
graphics on p.
49.
Navigation bars have their own dialog for reconfiguring navigation properties.
To reconfigure a navigation bar:
1. Double-click it, or right-click it and choose Edit Navigation Bar....
2. On the dialog’s Navigation Type tab:
• Select which buttons should be included in the navbar: Top Level,
Parent Level, Same Level, Child Level, Home, Previous and Next,
Previous, Next, or Up. (See the diagram and discussion above.)
• Depending on the main selection, you can opt to include the parent
page and/or the Home page.
• As a design choice, you may elect to Make all buttons the same size
(otherwise buttons will autofit to their text) and/or Use page names
(otherwise buttons will have functional names like "Previous" or
"Home").
3. On the dialog’s Popup Menu Properties tab:
• To prevent the popup menu from appearing, uncheck This
navigation object has menus.
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By default, all pages in the tree are included in navigation—that is, they can
be linked to by navigation elements. You can exclude certain pages (any but
the Home page) so they’ll be ignored by navigation elements. For example,
suppose you had a section of reference or archival pages that you didn’t want
visitors to explore top-down. Excluding the parent page for that section w
remove it from the navbar. Note that excluding the page from navigation
doesn’t remove it from the site—the page will still appear in the Site Str
tree and y
navbar.
Included pages show a
mark in their page entry in the Site tab’s Site
Structure tree, while excluded pages lack the mark.