Hi friends,
I have two questions and hope you can help me out with these.
In the "Link Properties" window, there is a drop-down menu in the bottom. It is called "Target". The options are "Default", "Same Frame", "Whole Page", "New Window" and "Parent Frame".
I was not able to find any information about this in the documentary PDF.
Can you help me out with what these options are good for?
My second question is about reloading all the items on a page, even if most of them are the same on all pages. Whenever I click one of the links, even though the graphical items on the other page are the same and only the text is different, whenever I click a link, all the objects on the other page need to load again. Is there a way to stop reloading the graphics, as they are the same on many pages, so that only the text loads when I click a link?
Again, I was not able to find information regarding this in the documentary PDF.
It would be great if you could help me with these questions.
Best wishes,
Kurt
A question about the "Link...
maNgo
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Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Hiya maNgo,
The target properties are a basic HTML setup not really a VSD thing. What they are is properties to tell the site page how to open. I have not played a lot with many of them, I usually use the default or the New Window one which in the end is actually these properties mentioned at this page:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp
I tend to have things just open in the same window (not to be confused with "frame") which would be the Default setting, or in a New Window which opens either a new browser window or tab depending on how the person's browser is setup so they don't leave your site to open the page, yet they aren't losing the page they were on either.
Some of the others are in reference to when you use "frames" for your site setup and tells it which frame to open in. Such as sometimes you have a top, left and middle frame so you need to tell a link which frame to open that link in.
As for your second question about opening pages without having to reopen graphics, I would imagine a framed site setup is what you're looking for. If you setup a site using "frames" you are able to set up so that only specific frames change with clicking links. Frames aren't the easiest thing to mess with, but not the hardest either, but... since you're using VSD I have no clue how or if frames work in there.
The idea behind a framed site is you setup sections in a sense and put static content that is the same for all pages into those frames such as left frame would hold your Menu, and top frame would hold your Logo, middle frame would be your content, and footer if you create one holds footer info.
Then you just have your content load each time and the rest of the site is as is and doesn't change.
Hope that answers your questions and wish I could help you more on the VSD end of frames but unfortunately I don't use it, I use the HTML Editor. There are, however, a lot of VSD users on this forum so hopefully one of them will know that answer
Good luck on it!
The target properties are a basic HTML setup not really a VSD thing. What they are is properties to tell the site page how to open. I have not played a lot with many of them, I usually use the default or the New Window one which in the end is actually these properties mentioned at this page:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp
I tend to have things just open in the same window (not to be confused with "frame") which would be the Default setting, or in a New Window which opens either a new browser window or tab depending on how the person's browser is setup so they don't leave your site to open the page, yet they aren't losing the page they were on either.
Some of the others are in reference to when you use "frames" for your site setup and tells it which frame to open in. Such as sometimes you have a top, left and middle frame so you need to tell a link which frame to open that link in.
As for your second question about opening pages without having to reopen graphics, I would imagine a framed site setup is what you're looking for. If you setup a site using "frames" you are able to set up so that only specific frames change with clicking links. Frames aren't the easiest thing to mess with, but not the hardest either, but... since you're using VSD I have no clue how or if frames work in there.
The idea behind a framed site is you setup sections in a sense and put static content that is the same for all pages into those frames such as left frame would hold your Menu, and top frame would hold your Logo, middle frame would be your content, and footer if you create one holds footer info.
Then you just have your content load each time and the rest of the site is as is and doesn't change.
Hope that answers your questions and wish I could help you more on the VSD end of frames but unfortunately I don't use it, I use the HTML Editor. There are, however, a lot of VSD users on this forum so hopefully one of them will know that answer
Good luck on it!
Cary
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1,086 posts
If you use the same image on multiple pages within VSD, I believe it creates separate, duplicate images for each page, rather than referencing the same image, so it's not reloading the same image, but loading for the first time a new, duplicate image with each page.
The only workaround I can think of is using add files and the html tool to add an image to your root and then use custom html to insert the image into your pages. This way the same image file can be used on multiple pages.
The only workaround I can think of is using add files and the html tool to add an image to your root and then use custom html to insert the image into your pages. This way the same image file can be used on multiple pages.
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