<MY SOLUTION> Menu losing track of hyperlinks and imag

Poster: vikenk
Dated: Friday December 9 2005 - 16:02:34 GMT

Sorry, this was meant to be a new post and not a reply to my previous post.

Hello everyone,

Well, I found a relatively simple solution to my problem. It may not be the best fix, but it allows me to use the menu and not have to totally redesign the website structure.

I created a duplicate menu_data file with adjuted hyperlinks. So far, it's worked very well on my local copy of the website.

In the website I working on, most of the core htm files are in the root folder. All the picture files (the site is somewhat picture-based) are located in their repective folder two levels deeper, for example: /images/folder01/pic01.htm, /images/folder02/pic01.htm, etc.,

Since all the pictures are in the same level of the site, I created a duplicate menu_data file and called it menu_dtat_pics.js. All the info in the file is the same except that the links have been adjusted to ../../home.htm, etc.

For me this was an easy solution because of the structure of the site. If I had more htm files scattered in many different folders at many different levels, this would not have been very feasible. But...it works for me.

Maintenance should not be much of a problem since the menu doesn't change much and adding one or two items will not be much of a hassle.

Just a temp solution until Milonic updates the menu. Maybe they could add a global variable that says rootfolder="blahblahblah". That way you can tell the menu where it's starting point is in the hyperlink structure.

Thanks for taking the time to offer support!

Viken K.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday December 9 2005 - 19:07:22 GMT

Hi,

If it works then it's the solution!

I have to tell you I fight with paths all the time. When something doesn't show up I try pasting what would be the full path based on my 'link' in the menu data file and see if I get the files.

Ruth