Operation Manual

68 Navigation and Hyperlinks
To help you understand this relationship between pages and these referenced
levels, a visual clue is provided as you create your navigation bar (in each
Navigation Type thumbnail). The dark rectangles show the page level to be used
and the black dot (•), the page on which your navigation bar is placed.
Top
Level
Same
Level
Child
Level
Previous
and Next
The icon designs are examples and do not represent the actually
structure of your site.
Because navigation bars "understand" your site structure, they update
dynamically if pages are moved to different levels!
Creating navigation bars
Navigation bars can be added to any page but are typically added to the master
page—as this saves you the trouble of pasting the same element to multiple
pages. A navigation bar on a master page behaves as if it's on each page—
consistent with the notion that its buttons and menus are relative to where each
page sits in the overall site structure.
When adding a navigation bar, you can choose how your navigation will appear
on your page by choosing:
• Type: The intrinsic design of your navigation bar (e.g., block, speech,
traditional).
• Navigation Type: The site or custom structure on which the
navigation bar is based.
• Appearance: The button, separator, and background design of the
navigation bar. Either preset or custom designs can be used.
• Pop-Up menus: The button, separator, and background design for any
pop-up menus displaying off the navigation bar (if using child pages
in your site structure).