Setup Guide V1 (last updated January 4th, 2007)
Designed for the Gen7 Series Templates and Modules
Bottom link bar basic tutorials
Bottom link bar intermediate tutorials
Horizontal text menu located at the bottom of the page.The bottom link bar may contain 5-8 text links. The bottom link bar is embedded into each web page in your template using an [FP=] 'include' page component or a [DW=] 'Library' .lbi page. When you modify the bottom link bar include page, all pages in your web site using the embedded link bar will be updated as well. So you only need to made changes to one 'include page' in order to update all the pages in your web site.
Add a link
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open your web site
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open the 'includes' folder - [FP] 'Library' folder - [DW]
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open the ‘bottom_links.htm' page
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place your cursor between two existing text links, or at the beginning or end
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type in a name for your link
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right click on the new text
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select Hyperlink Properties
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browse to the page you will be linking to and click to select this page as the new hyperlink
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or - type the name of the page into the 'Address' text field
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click OK once a new page has been selected
Remove a link
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open your web site
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open the 'includes' folder - [FP] 'Library' folder - [DW]
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open the ‘bottom_links.htm' page
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select the link you want to remove, and press delete on your keyboard
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save
Edit link name
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open your web site
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open the 'includes' folder - [FP] 'Library' folder - [DW]
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open the ‘bottom_links.htm' page
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double click on a link to activate text edit mode
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type in the new name for the link
Edit hyperlink
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open your web site
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open the 'includes' folder - [FP] 'Library' folder - [DW]
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open the ‘bottom_links.htm' page
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right click on a text link
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select Hyperlink Properties
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browse to the page you will be linking to and click to select this page as the new hyperlink
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or - type the name of the page into the 'Address' text field
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click OK once a new page has been selected
*NOTE* you can modify the appearance of the text for the links bars directly on the include page, but we recommend editing the style sheet (intermediate tutorials) if you want to do this.
Bottom link bar intermediate tutorials
Please review the tutorials on CSS font (types, size, color).
Horizontal text menu located at the bottom of the page.The bottom link bar may contain 5-8 text links. The bottom link bar is embedded into each web page in your template using an [FP=] 'include' page component or a [DW=] 'Library' .lbi page. When you modify the bottom link bar include page, all pages in your web site using the embedded link bar will be updated as well. So you only need to made changes to one 'include page' in order to update all the pages in your web site.
Change font type
- open the Templates / styles folder
- open the fonts.css file
scroll down to line 43 and edit the 'font' name in the highlighted area below
Change font size
- open the Templates / styles folder
- open the fonts.css file
scroll down to line 43 and edit the 'number' value of the font size highlighted below
Change font colors
- open the Templates / styles folder
- open the fonts.css file
scroll down to line 43 and edit the 'hex' value of the highlighted area's below (edit the color for all 4 button states if you like)
