Nav images show in the root files but not in sub directorys?

Poster: jm
Dated: Thursday July 28 2005 - 20:30:21 BST

Hi

This is driving me nuts !
Used Milonic nav before - no problems at all.

However - I've got the script working fine in the root (index.html)
however when you click through to a subdirectory (/products/index.html) the images appear broken, though the actual script works (the drop downs are just basic text)

Here's the homepage code
<script type="text/javascript" src="milonic/milonic_src.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=milonic/mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=milonic/mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</script>

Here's the sub directory page code
<script type="text/javascript" src="../milonic/milonic_src.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=../milonic/mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=../milonic/mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</script>


here's the line from menu_data.js
aI("showmenu=products;image=images/nav/products.gif;overimage=images/nav/products.gif;;url=http://menusample83.php;")

i've tried using
../images
and /images

this is something really simple and I've gone blind to it !

Poster: slackbladder
Dated: Thursday July 28 2005 - 20:41:47 BST

try:



if the folder images is in root.

Poster: slackbladder
Dated: Thursday July 28 2005 - 20:42:30 BST

Sry just read you had done that! DOH! (it's been a long day! )

Give us a URL so we can see the problem.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday July 29 2005 - 1:19:56 BST

Hi,

It is a path issue, and to see we need a url as Slack noted.

Paths are not my thing, but you seem to be saying that the images are in
root/images/ so if you go to the products folder and use /images/whateverimage.gif the menu would expect to have an images folder under the products folder. [I think ] If all else fails, you can do what I do, put in the full path

Ruth

Poster: jm
Dated: Friday July 29 2005 - 9:39:03 BST



yep - tried that
only way around it is to use a full path or I'm going to move the navigation to the root and call it into every page from there

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday July 29 2005 - 14:22:14 BST

Well, at least the full path works, until you change domains! Then you have a lot of page updating to do....

But, I think it must be something else because I just tested it on my site and I'm not having a problem using relative paths [which I figured out after having posted the previous message which is wrong on paths

Unfortunately without some kind of url, test page with the menu we can't test things.


Ruth

Poster: jm
Dated: Friday July 29 2005 - 14:32:22 BST

Hey Ruth

Yep it's odd - what i've done is create a menu_data2.js file which contains ../images and that works fine

decided against the use of a php include - as I was unsure whether that would effect search engine ranking - ie the pages effectively would only have a serverside include for the navigation and not sure if robots can pick that up !

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday July 29 2005 - 15:16:54 BST

I dont' think there is a problem. They read the 'resulting' page, the returned page, they don't know how it got there, the ssi stuff happens on the server which they don't see. Go to the page and then view source, that is what the search engine sees. For example, if you have the search engine never sees that, it sees the actual mainnav.php page that has been included.

As to the menu, that's a js file, the search engines can't read that. You might take a look at this about Milonic and Search Engines. I think they won't read links in noscript tags, but they do read content in divs so you could actually create a div, set it to be hidden and put text links in it for the search engines. Pretty sure that will work fine. And, that shouldn't take up space [I think]

Ruth