Operation Manual

Navigation and Hyperlinks 77
Saving navigation bar options
If you've customized a navigation bar's buttons, separators, background, and its
pop-up menu you can save these combined settings to a single location using the
Defaults button. This is useful for applying the same navigation bar appearance
to other navigation bars you create in your site.
Including/excluding pages in navigation
By default, all pages are included in navigation—that is, they can be linked to
by navigation bars. You can exclude certain pages (any but the Home page) so
they'll be ignored by navigation bars. 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 would remove it from the navigation
bar. Note that excluding the page from navigation doesn't remove it from the
site—the page will still appear in the Site Structure tree and you can still install
hyperlinks to it; it just won't show up in a navigation bar.
To exclude a page from navigation:
• On the Studio's Site tab, right-click the page in the Site Structure tree
and choose Page Properties.... Uncheck Include in Navigation.
• Included pages show a mark in their page entry in the Site tab's Site
Structure tree, while excluded page entries lack the mark and appear
grayed out.
Using dynamic navigation bars
Up to now, we've assumed that navigation bars are based on your site structure
and show static pages as menu items. However, for more dynamic navigation
bars, you can populate your navigation bar submenus with ever-changing forum,
CMS, and blog article titles—simply click a title to view the relevant article.
We'll assume you're already using an offsite link to connect to your forum,
CMS, and blog, and that the offsite link is included in navigation.