Top Navigation
Sat, 10/04/2008 - 00:37 — jcp258
Before I ask about navigation issues, I just want to say the information here has been extremely useful. Here's what I'm trying to do. I am using the new professional template. I was able to add a new box to the navigation tab for my courses along with the standard Home, Blog, About and Contact tabs. I would like to add the same type of navigation to my courses page, but I am stuck. Any suggestions?
Clarification
For example, instead of Home, Blog, About, etc. in the navigation bar on my courses page (only), is it possible to have Geog 482, 483, etc. ?
@topnav to add a page to the top navigation
If you create a page and tag it with @topnav, it will show up in the top navigation bar. You could also remove the tags @about and @contact from the about and contact pages to remove them from your top nav.
If you want "Home" and "Blog" to be different, you would have to edit your blog templates.
How?
How exactly do I go about "editing my blog templates" to make "Home and Blog" different?
if you are comfortable with html
If you are comfortable editing html, you can edit your templates. Go to design->templates. Look for the template called "navigation" which will be listed under template modules.
@topnav not linking on all pages
I agree that these are indeed very useful resources. My question also has to do with Top Navigation with the Professional Website template. When I use the @topnav tag the tagged page appears in the top navigation on the home page. However, when I go to about, contact, or other pages the newly @topnav tagged page does not appear. Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Here is where I am testing:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/nmc15/blogs/ncraig/
Republish blog to make new navigation bar appear on all pages
You need to republish your site (http://blogger.psu.edu/help/manage/publish) to make the new nav bar appear on all pages. The reason for this is that when you create a new page or entry, Movable Type does not republish every page on your site. It only publishes the page or entry, your homepage, and assorted other "index" pages. If you make a change that will effect all pages of your site, a republish is probably in order.
Perfect
Thanks, that did the trick. Sorry I didin't respond sooner, I need to subscribe to this feed. Very useful.
Nathan Craig
Trouble with adding pages to the top menu
I have tried adding the following in three pages (page 1, page 2, page 3) @page1, @page2, @page3 in the tag input field. I saved and republished the entire blog and refreshed the browser (even cleared private data). I can't seem to get the pages to appear. I was able to remove the @about tag and the navigation was removed. I can edit the navigation theme file to manually add pages, but could like to share this with a faculty member who might not be comfortable editing the html.
Any thoughts?
use @topnav to add a page to the top navigation
use @topnav to add a page to the top navigation.
Check out this thread for more info:
http://blogger.psu.edu/node/547
Use @topnav
Thanks - I was trying to replace @topnav with my page name like @about. Very easy.