Operation Manual

34 Web Site Design and Construction
You can create navbars using only text, or design graphical navbars by
hand. The advantage of navbar theme graphics, along with other
navigation elements (such as Previous/Next buttons) provided on the
Themes tab, is that they’re pre-programmed to “understand” your site
structure tree. That means you can easily customize which part(s) of the
site structure they should link to—for example, to top-level pages,
pages on the same level, child pages, etc. You can set specific pages to
be included in navigation or not, as you see fit. And best of all, a
navbar theme graphic updates dynamically if you subsequently alter
page names or relationships, or cut/paste the navbar to another page.
Let’s see how WebPlus theme graphic navbars adapt to changes in your
site structure.
 Click to select the entry for the Services page in the template site’s
Site Structure tree.
 Click the
Move Page Up at Same Level button above the
tree.
The “Services” page, which was fourth in the top-level sequence, is
now third—and the navbar instantly responds by reconfiguring its
button order!
 With the “Services” page selected, uncheck Include in
Navigation at the bottom of the Site tab and notice what happens.
Click again to select the setting.
Switching off the Include page setting forces the navbar to ignore the
“Services” page, and the “Services” button disappears. Switch it back
on, and the button reappears. This provides a glimpse of the ease with
which WebPlus lets you customize site structure and navigation
elements.
 Choose Site Structure... from the File menu. Note that this dialog
provides yet another view of the Site Structure tree, with the same
four buttons for moving pages. By the way, both here and on the
Site tab, you can also use drag-and-drop to move page entries
around in the tree! For now, close the dialog without making
changes.
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