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Old 11-27-2006, 06:40 AM
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Default Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

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Originally Posted by Bethers
Naval - I'm lost in css - but here's where I found the info that makes me believe I should be able to do it:

http://webdesign.about.com/od/freeme...bllistvert.htm

http://webdesign.about.com/od/cssmen...s=css+template

And - this one is where I wanted to dissect:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa082304.htm

I appreciate it if you can figure this out for me (and the many others out here!)
Hi Beth,

as i was afraid, that is not a way of including a single menu in your pages.

Explain: all the links you posted, are tutorials on how to create a menubar, using CSS. BUT, the menu has to be inside each and every page. Only the stylesheet document can be unique for all pages, so if you want to change the look of your menu, then you only need to edit this one css file.

But when it comes to editing the menu itself, in the meaning of adding, deleting, or changing links, etc, you still need to edit page per page. You will need to manually edit the menu in one page, eventually copy paste in the rest of the the pages, then republish ALL the pages.

The only way, as i posted above, i know of, to have a SINGLE menu, is to in someway, include this unique menubar, in your pages, calling it from whithin the page. And, as long as you don't have the includes (that FP allows for), the only way i could come up with, is the one i posted, making use of php.

Please note that, as i posted above, this include, can be practcally ANYTHING that can be included in a php/html page: menubars, headers, footers, ANYTHING. So, you can use this trick to implement a CSS menu as well.

Now, i do understand that a CSS menu, like the ones described in your posts, are the best, as long as SE are concerned. And, those tutorials, explain how to create them. However, there is a simpler way to accomplish the same result (creating a CSS menu), by making use of the CSS menu generators you can find in the web. Here is an easy one:
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/css...enerator.shtml . It will allow you to create your CSS menu and then download the code, ready to place in your page.
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