[royster13]

So has anyone installed custom menus on their Distributor Central site?

It looks like creating menus is easy enough with programs like Coffee Cup but I have not seen how to install them on DC....Any tips?....

[biggerfish]

Originally Posted by royster13

So has anyone installed custom menus on their Distributor Central site?

I have a custom menu system on my site at bigpromotions.net

[royster13]

And the rest of the answer is?

[bigimpression]

When you're editing your DC site, in the "Sitewide Setting" area you'll see a tab entitiled "header" you can use custom HTML, including custom code for menus, graphics etc. That will show up on the top of each page of your DC site.

[biggerfish]

Originally Posted by royster13

And the rest of the answer is?

Sorry, missed that. Mine are done with Javascript and DHTML - and as Ryan said, there's an option to customize the header and put that code in.

[royster13]

So that header frame control menus?.....Does it also allow you to insert a custom back ground image like www.TotallySportsBottles.com? Or CSS file?...

www.MagnetKing.biz I now have side bar with links to pages but it will become some what unmanageable so I want to do a custom menu....

Thanks for the assist....

[bigimpression]

CSS file for the BG image

[royster13]

So do you put a css file in your "Documents" and then reference it is the header block?....

[bigimpression]

The header frame doesn't control menus, it give you the ability to insert code for mennus though..

Look at if this way:

_________________Header_______________

DC Generated content

_________________Footer________________

The header and the footer is custom code inserted by you, it can be HTML, javascript, DHTML, FLASH, ETC. with the DC generated content sandwiched in between.

[bigimpression]

I beleive that is how it's done. Maybe Rich can confirm on the BG CSS as he uses a BG.

[biggerfish]

Originally Posted by royster13

So that header frame control menus?.....Does it also allow you to insert a custom back ground image like www.TotallySportsBottles.com? Or CSS file?...

www.MangetKing.biz I now have side bar with links to pages but it will become some what unmanageable so I want to do a custom menu....

Thanks for the assist....

TotallySportsBottles's CSS is a little screwed up. This is from his source code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
<meta name="description" content="100 sports bottles only $.75 each! Custom sports bottles imprinted w/your logo. Free 24 hour service. Cheap imprinted water bottles.">
<meta name="keywords" content="promotional sports bottles, imprinted sports bottles, promotional water bottles, imprinted water bottles, promotional plastic bottles, imprinted plastic bottles, custom sports bottles, custom water bottles">
body {
	background-image: url();
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.background-image {
	background-attachment: fixed;
	background-image: url(http://www.totallypromotional.com/images/totallysportsbottles/product/sample-backgrnd-plain.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center bottom;
}
</style>

He shouldn't have META tags in there, and he's got double body declarations for the background. The 2nd one overrides the first. He should have this:

<style type="text/css">
body {
	background-image: url(http://www.absolutelinktoyourimagehere.com/image.jpg); /* be sure to use the entire URL to avoid missing images - later you can copy/paste this code into an external CSS file and then not have to worry about the /directories and how they relate to the location of the CSS files */
	background-repeat: no-repeat; /* you can also put repeat-x or repeat-y*/
	background-position: center bottom; /* this enables the image to be centered no matter how wide the browser window is */
}
</style>

My personal preference is to keep my CSS in an external file, hosted on a separate server from DC, so I can make edits at will without having to go through the DC edit/publish/edit-again/publish-again process.

If you're going to put your code right there in your header, put it in a META tag box, so it will appear on the page in the proper location: after the <TITLE></TITLE> tags and before the last </HEAD> tag at the top of the page. The META box in the DC editor doesn't care if you use META tags or not, it just puts them in the right place when it renders the page.

[biggerfish]

Originally Posted by bigimpression

The header frame doesn't control menus, it give you the ability to insert code for mennus though..

Look at if this way:

_________________Header_______________

DC Generated content

_________________Footer________________

The header and the footer is custom code inserted by you, it can be HTML, javascript, DHTML, FLASH, ETC. with the DC generated content sandwiched in between.

Originally Posted by bigimpression

I beleive that is how it's done. Maybe Rich can confirm on the BG CSS as he uses a BG.

That's exactly how things work. I'll add that you have to choose the correct layout in DC for the site so the default menu doesn't appear.

[royster13]

We are "cooking with gas" now!.....Thanks folks.....

[royster13]

Well a few hours later, thanks to my great helpers I have managed to install a custom background on www.MagnetKing.biz It is just a test pattern for now...But soon I will work on a permanent design....

Next task is the custom menu....However, I suspect that will be a much difficult and time consuming task....

[LogoSteve]

Do you website building experts have any suggestions on books that one
could read and learn how to dress up my own website?

Steve Gaither
Head Monkey
Purple Monkey Promotions !

[Chris Miller]

Originally Posted by LogoSteve

Do you website building experts have any suggestions on books that one
could read and learn how to dress up my own website?

Steve Gaither
Head Monkey
Purple Monkey Promotions !

"Complete idiots guide to creating an html webpage." by Paul McFedries Look for me inside the cover someplace. I was featured in there somewhere back in like 1998.

It was a good read back then, but to take the time to learn HTML today seems like a bit of a waste. There are programs that do it, and people who do it for even less than the programs.