Different Menu Items on different web pages
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi
I am using Easy Site Wizard Pro and have set up my menu buttons on my home page using the menu editor. When I click on one of these menu buttons to take me to a different page on my site, for example, "products" page, I want a different set of menu buttons that are different to those on the home page to appear, eg a menu button for each product. How do I do this without the same menu buttons appearing on all the pages?
Thanks !
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report Inappropriate Content
I am no expert but if you are using a master page and referring all other pages to it, then I do not think it is possible to have different menu buttons. A way round it I used was to create a button or buttons on the page I wanted and used a hyperlink to send users to a different page on the site.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report Inappropriate Content
Thanks - that sounds like a fair idea.
Can you advise me on how to create new buttons and add the hyperlink please?
Please excuse my ignorrance - I am a complete newbie to web design.
Thanks !
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report Inappropriate Content
I too am new at this and I am all self taught when it comes to web design and it may not be the correct way to do it, however this is how I created a button and it worked for me.
On top of the menu click the "menu editor"
You need to create a page first so click on the "manage pages tab"
Create a page - give it a page name, title, summary and add your key words and click apply
Your new page will appear on the "existing pages" list. click on it and add your content you wish users to see.
On your original page (the one you wanted to have different menu buttons) there is a little hammer icon which is the "create a web form" click on this.
At the bottom left there is a "button" box - click on it and drop it in to the left hand "form" box.
At the bottom of the screen there is "input name" - put in here what you want the button to be called, this is for your reference only.
In the "value" box put the name of the box that your users will see. You will see the button name has changed from "Submit Query" to whatever you have called it.
When you click apply a box will ask you to enter a valid email address etc, click OK.
Tick the "use custom thankyou page" and scroll to the page you just created above.
Click Apply
You newly created button will appear on the page and you can move it to where you want it.
To test that it works, preview your website, and click on the button you created, as if you were a user.
You will then be taken to that page. If that does not work then let me know and I will explain how to create a hyperlink to the page you want. I just think creating a button is more professional.
I hope I haven't tested your intelligence with my step by step guide, apologies if I have.
Cathryn
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi Cathryn
Thanks loads for the explanation, REALLY USEFUL. I tried it and got the button set up OK. However it then needed a choice of "GET or POST" selected from a pull down menu - I chose "GET".
It wouldn't then move on from the "enter a valid email address / enter a custom URL boxes".
I entered http://mynewwebsite.co.uk/newbuttonpage.html into the checked URL box and tried the preview - it couldn't find the page.
I then entered http://mynewwebsite.co.uk/esw_preview/newbuttonpage.html and it found the page !!! FANTASTIC. (I noticed all the preview pages had esw_preview in the web address)
However would I be right in assuming that when I publish the site I would need to remove the esw_preview text from the link for the button work properly? I can't think of a way to test this without publishing?
Any thoughts on the above would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks loads for your help thus far.
Cheers
Hutch1
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi Hutch1
Glad the button is set up.
From my limited knowledge on this subject this relates to whether you want to be emailed when the button is selected. On my site my customers complete a quotation form and then "POST" it to me via my email. I think if you do not select either "POST" or "GET" and leave the enter valid e-mail address blank and select "use Thankyou page" by ticking this box, when you select the page to use as your "thank you page" (even though we both know it's not a thankyou page but your new button page) it should direct users to that page.
The only way I tested if my pages worked was to preview the site (top right) and this allows you to see exactly what your users will see. I completed my own forms and everything as if I was a customer.
I clicked on both the links to your site you provided and got the same page no problem, I do not think it matters that esw_preview is typed or not as this is purely to allow you to preview it yourself. Although I do believe that you should leave this unchecked and go for the Thankyou Page option.
Does this make sense??? I hope it does.
