Thread: PrimitiveCollectibles.com

I am new at this and have worked days to set up my site. I CANNOT
get my pages of thumbnails to hyperlink. I have read/viewed the tutorials hundreds of times. I need a human to talk me thru it! If anyone is kind enough to help me, I will surely appreciate it! The hyperlink icon stays grayed out, right clicking nor left clicking will bring up the info screen or the URL. Thanks!!

Sallie

Hi Sallie

Have you published your index page yet? If you have please can you you tell us your web address and then someone here will try to help.

Darren

Try this:

Let's say you have an image element on your page. Double click it, choose the middle tab (link) of the image properties box, highlight URL: the http:// will show highlighted in blue, right arrow over it once, then type in the filename you want opened, http://koolspaces.html, then choose target, usually blank. My guess is that you are not creating a valid .html file.

Hope that helps!


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How great to have a response!! I haven't published my site yet because I can't get my "thumbnail" pages to link. I tried double clicking on each of the thumbnail pictures separately and nothing pops up but the screen entitled "Lightbox Properties"

Hi Sallie

I can't comment on lightboxes because I've never used that feature but saying that hyperlinks are hyperlinks.

To get your hyperlinks to work, you will need to publish your page(s). Hyperlinks do not work in preview mode.

Hope that helps

Darren

I understand that I have to "publish" to see them working, but my problem is that I can't get the screen to open to type in the URL so mine don't have a chance of working without a destination. Additionally, if I have hyperlinked something ...either text or an image...is it possible to "un-hyperlink it?...and if so, how do I do it? Once again, thanks so very much for helping...it is so nice to have human help!!

Sallie can I confirm. Are you using the lightbox tool or are you inserting thumbnail images that you just need to hyperlink?

Darren

Yes, I used the Lightbox tool. Now that I have them on one page, I can't get them to link. I moved them in groups...which may be causing the problem, but I can't see why.

I just looked at the tutorial for light boxes and I can't see an option to hyperlink. It seems it allows you to click on a thumbnail to allow the user to see the bigger picture.

I've never used it, so hopefully someone else might step in and tell me I'm wrong but I don't think I am.

What I tend to do is if I wanted to link a thumbnail to another page, I would use the 'roller' over tool, insert my image and then insert the url to where you want it to go when clicked.

When someone clicks on a thumbnail do you want to take them to a different page?

Darren

Sallie

This tutorial may help

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/add...r-website.html

Darren

What I had in mind was to put the "thumbnail" pages on separate buttons on the Home/Index page so the visitor could click on that page and see all of the different bulletin boards that I offer. When I preview the page I can click on the icon and each thumbnail will enlarge like it is supposed to, but I can't link the darned page to anything. I have 4 pages of thumbnails that I am trying to link...all different types of products. Thank you so much for being willing to help me. Should I try to figure out how to "publish" a page or two...thinking that it might help to figure out my problem? I will do whatever I need to in order to get this site online.

I've had another look and you can't link them using light box. If you were able to link them, where would that be, a shopping cart or something?

I had in mind to link them to a "button" in the fixed menu on the Home page. Won't that work? I have linked all of the other pages to the Home page. I can't think of how I will be able to use the thumbnails if I can't link them to something...should I try to put one beside an image on the page? You'll never know how much I appreciate your help!

I think the only way of kind of linking them is to put text underneath each thumbnail eg, 'buy now' or 'more info' as then you can hyperlink the text.

I've got to go now, hopefully someone else might step in and help also.

Good Luck

Darren

Darren,

Thanks a million!!

Sallie

I was able to hyperlink "text" from the thumbnail pages, so I'm hoping that when I publish it will work property. Now I have to address the problem of my thumbnails opening tooooooo large. Any ideas, anyone???

Hi, the light box is for putting the original (lets say 400x300size) image in & it will creates its own thumbnail for each image. you cant put a thumbnail in & have a lager image.

Hi Sallie

Please post your url so we can get a feel of what is happening.

thanks

Darren

Good Morning! I haven't published yet, can you reach my site before I do?? If not, then I will try to publish a couple of pages this morning and see what happens. My URL will be PrimitiveCollectibles.com

Sallie

I just now tried to "publish" a page or two and BlueVoda won't take my password. I am using the master password from my Welcome Letter...is that correct? My sheet says to use it! Is there a trick to making it work?
I used the IP address that appeared in the window...should I have?

I have just now tried to publish and out of four pages only two are working. I'll try to see what I've done wrong, but in the meantime my site: http://.www.primitivecollectibles.com is starting to work. Why are the borders PURPLE...I added them as black borders? Can they be changed back to black.

Hi Sally

Will start off with your pages not linking

Tip

If you save a page as 'contactus' in BV(and publish) the url created will be http://www.abc.com/contactus.html

If you save a page as 'aboutus' in BV (and publish) the url created will be http://www.abc.com/aboutus.html

so you can see the common element.

when saving pages in BV, avoid CAPITALS, and spaces

eg this would be OK

contactus
contact-us
contact_us

NOT
Contact Us

Try this first - Good Luck

Darren

Will do! I am checking everything! Thanks, thanks...

Sallie

Hi, I also sell multiple items and am currently working on my new website using BV. I tried the light box & added 30 thumb nail product photos. Cannot link photos to a product detail page using light box. I think you would have to use table to show all your thumb nail product photos as it appears you can link the photos to a product detail page. Still have not figured out how to add 30 different photos at once to the table grid. Thats the one good feature of light box. If i figure out how to load multi photos using table grid ,I will let you know.
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