Text menu to back up DHTML menu
Okay ... starting the long haul to sort out a bit of a messed up site - www.ethics.org.au (the result of a dodgy web development firm, the details of which are covered elsewhere in these forums). I have very limited experience, but am doing my best to patch things up for now.
One problem I would like to deal with is that the dynamic menu in the left-hand frame of the site does not work in all browsers. I've seen what this looks like and it essentially makes the site impossible to navigate and we have been getting complaints. I have been told that there should be a text only menu to back up the DHTML version. Can someone explain to me (in fairly simple terms) how this is done - how I can put hyperlinked text behind the menu buttons so that it is only visible when the DHTML buttons are not?
FYI currently I'm still only using Frontpage, mostly due to lack of time to get my head around Dreamweaver just now ...
Thank you kindly.
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Megan posted this at 14:14 — 27th November 2001.
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Just create a separate menu with just text links. These are usually done horizontally at the bottom of the page. It's alsoi beneficial on longer pages becuase people don't have to scroll all the way back to the top if they want to go someplace else.
It's just like that bottom frame on your site with Member's Corner | Forum | etc. except they should be done in text rather than graphics (another problem with those morons that did this). You could alsways put your whole text navigation in that frame but I think that isn't noticeable enough smooshed down there at the bottom. Maybe if you widened that frame a little bit it would work.
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disaster-master posted this at 18:47 — 27th November 2001.
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I had asked a similar quesiton a while back and have put the link to my thread below. Although I never did resolve my problem, maybe some of the suggestions that I got will be of some help you.
I have text links at the bottom of my pages but there is still a blank space where the DHTML menu should go in older browsers. I had thought about just putting text links there anyway but I think that may confuse people for whom the menu works. The text links would be visible for new browsers until the menu loads and the visitor would want to know what the heck was that behind the menu.
See this thread
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