> Hi folks,
>
> I'm back with the same navigation bar question.
>
> Parameters:
>
> 1. I'm still working my way up the website construction knowledge
> curve.
> 2. My design ambitions outstrip my abilities in some areas.
> 3. I'm using Dreamweaver CS2.
> 4. Image of basic portfolio page layout can be seen at: http://
> www.flickr.com/photos/velochicdunord/444850200/
>
> Here's the plan;
> Header navigation takes viewer through major site sections.
> "Portfolio" has a js dropdown menu to portfolio subsections
>
> The portfolio subsections have separate sector navigation. This
> area has mouse over/mouse out (highlighting) effects and a outline
> that appears around the active image on click down within the
> linked image button.
>
> Further remote rollover effects swap out main images (the big one
> on the page, which changes shape proportions and has some multiples
> as mouse moves around secondary navigation bars. On click, the
> viewer is taken to the image page, where a separate rollover (mouse
> on/mouse off) allows them to quickly compare "before" and "after"
> images. (this site is for an image retoucher friend)
>
> I'm running into some difficulty in setting up the secondary
> navigation bar so that it can be edited in child pages. I have
> saved one file as a template. I have further templates with the
> navigation bar changes saved out from that. From those, I want to
> develop the individual pages.
>
> Should I be developing my template structure that way, or as
> comment yesterday, should I be using the library as my ultimate
> reference? I want to make sure that this site is relatively easy to
> update by the client, my image retoucher buddy. I thought that by
> using template to control the elements with editable sections, I
> could keep them from messing up elements as they update.
>
> However, I'm confused and need direction. Do the secondary
> templates need to be "nested templates" in order for this to work?
>
> On my first shot, I had problems with the secondary nav bars in
> that the rollover actions stayed the same even as I updated the
> link images and their destination!
> I couldn't quite figure that out.
>
> On my second shot, I'm successfully entering the data, but the
> template doesn't appear to be allowing me to update the
> "behaviours". Can I work around that? If not, suggestions as to
> alternatives?
>
> Our other concern is maintaining embedded XML copyright information
> within the image files. Because this is commercial work, this is
> important.
> We've set up XML templates with the recorded permissions (backed up
> by a paper trail) and embedded those in the main images. Those are
> saved as jpeg to preserve the info. But the navigation buttons are
> an issue.
>
> One workflow I've explored involves setting up the secondary nav
> bars in Fireworks and exporting the HTML (and rollover actions) to
> Dreamweaver. However, the resulting GIF format appears to be losing
> the copyright information.
>
> The other route is to generate jpeg rollover files in photoshop and
> imageready, which preserves the copyright information. But then, I
> need to construct the rollover actions in Dreamweaver... where I'm
> a little less agile.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Shirley Hicks
> for.arts.sake@sympatico.ca
> shirley@velochic.ca
> http://www.velochic.ca
>
> "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your
> enthusiasm" - Sir Winston Churchill
>
>


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