Submenus
If your site begs for more pages/levels within your navigation that you've established, you may consider adding a submenu. A submenu is needed when there's a need to organize all of your site's information into even more categories beyond your main menu. Once you've created a sub-menu, visitors to your site will encounter the drop-down sub-menu when they click on your main menu items.
How to build your submenu
- Sub-menus are constructed exactly like defaultmenu.html, except that there is no "0" line. You can either:
- Copy a defaultmenu.html, rename it as anything you wish, delete the "0" line and edit the other columns (that correspond to 1, 2, 3...) accordingly.
- Or you can create an entire file from scratch and build your own table using features in any HTML editor.
- Name the sub-menu file anything you'd like. For example, let's pretend you're going to name it submenu1.html.
- Once you've created submenu1.html (or whatever you want to call it, with an html extension), then you'll have to re-edit your folder's defaultmenu.html file in this way:
- Open your defaultmenu.html.
- Decide where you want to use the sub-menu. Perhaps, at line 1, you have a Main Menu Item called "Who We Are." Instead of using only the URL that you used before — for example, who.html — then you'll need add a "secret code." Using the submenu1.html example, the special code is: &SM=submenu1.html For example, your URL might look like this: who.html&SM=submenu1.html
- Go ahead and create more sub-menu pages, and change the URLs as needed in your folder's defaultmenu.html file.
- In your sub-menu file (which we called submenu1.html), you'll also need to use the special code for the file's URLs: &SM=. Once again, using our example, that URL and special code are: who.html&SM=submenu1.html
- Remember to transfer over all the files you've just created and set your permissions (if necessary), as you have on your other pages.
Last modified September 13 2011 01:06 PM