Operation Manual

Developing Sites and Pages 29
Incidentally, WebPlus also
supports HTML pages and offsite
links which can be inserted into the
Site Structure as for any other page.
Either page entry is slightly
different in design to a standard
web page to indicate that it is based
only on HTML code (see
Creating
HTML pages on p.
247) or that it
points to a location outside of the
Web site.
As an example, compare the
HTML page "Overview", the
standard Web page "Sales", and the
offsite link "Member's forum".
Navigation
In WebPlus, certain types of theme graphic we'll call "navigation elements"—
such as Previous/Next buttons and navbars are pre-programmed to
understand your site structure, making it easy to design a site that's simple to
navigate. You simply select one from the Studio's Theme Graphics tab and
WebPlus does the rest! Previous/Next buttons automatically link laterally, to
adjacent pages on the same level. Navbars combine buttons with popup
menus to facilitate movement between the various sections and levels of a site.
For example, here's a navbar we selected for the site shown in the main tree
above. The buttons provide links to the Home and section menu pages (all at
Level 1) and popup menus that link to child pages (Level 2 in this case).
Here's a brief summary of the advantages of incorporating navigation
elements in your site design: