Operation Manual

78 Navigation and Hyperlinks
To create a dynamic navigation bar:
• Right-click the offsite link in Site tab and click Offsite Link
Properties....
• From the Offsite Link dialog, change the drop-down menu in the
Smart Object Information section to add feed items (i.e., published
article titles) as children to the bar's submenu.
Each article title is clickable, launching the associated article in a
window, typically a separate window.
Converting to Panels
You can convert your navigation bar to a panel (p. 78), taking advantage of
more freeform positioning of your navigation bar buttons (within the panel area)
and the option to keep navigation bars visible at all times.
To convert a navigation bar to a panel:
1. Select the navigation bar.
2. From the context toolbar, select
Convert to Panel.
For more information about panels, see Inserting panels on p. 106.
Adding pop-up menus
Pop-up menus form an integral part of multi-level navigation bars (p. 67),
showing as menus that display only on button hover over. The pop-up menu
items represent child pages at lower levels of your site.
In WebPlus, you can also add pop-up menus to any object (a QuickShape,
image, a gallery item, but most typically a button), the menu being essentially
the same as those integrated with navigation bars. Like navigation bars, the pop-