HTML5 vs Flash Navigation Menus

Don't want the topic to get deleted so I'll try to put this carefully-speculation you know!
Since iWeb first came out I've been creating my own navigation menus. Simply by creating a text box and linking the text within the text box to my pages. This has been recommended many times in this forum due to the search un-friendliness of the Flash based navigation menus that are used when "Display Navigation Menu" is selected in the Inspector.
In a future iWeb, that may be more HTML5 based, could that change how iWeb creates such things as the built in Navigation Menus. Just wondering

A custom navigation allows a lot more versatility in choice of font, size, color, rollover colors, placement on the page, horizontal or vertical etc.
I don't think its so much that there are problems with default as the fact that building your own menu in a text box allows you to add more keywords. For example, you can have a page name "Joe Gramm" in iWeb and this will appear in the URL. In the navigation menu this page could be named "Upholstery King" giving you a chance to add more keywords.
If you want speculation, I would be more inclined to guess - or hope - that iWeb will move towards multi layer CSS menu generation.
Here's a test page with a partial menu of this type....
http://web.me.com/roddymckay/Web-Media-Test/Menu.html
Its relatively easy to build a menu like this but very time consuming. If your website is fairly static I guess its worth while. I make too many changes which would require updating the menu and pasting it to over a hundred page. I'm not into self punishment!

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carl wrote:
> would you suggest to install the updater - without
giving you any
> responsibility for whatever you recommend
The only problems that I am aware of with the updater are
these:
* Some third party extensions currently don't work with
Dreamweaver 8.0.2.
* The Test SQL Statement panel doesn't render correct results
for MySQL
functions.
* The recordset dialog box strips out the MySQL CONCAT()
function from
SQL queries.
Item 1 isn't a major concern to me, as I rarely use the
extensions
affected (mainly MX Kollection 3 and extensions created by
Tom Muck).
Items 2 and 3 do concern me, but since I'm aware of them, I
can easily
work around them.
I have installed the 8.0.2 updater, and don't have any plans
to
uninstall at the moment. The changes to the server behaviors
improve
security, so that's an important reason to update. On the
other hand, if
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too.
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Problems with Flash Navigation

I'm trying to edit a horizontal flash navigation that I found
on the internet but i'm having some issues. The original file can
be found
here.
The flash pulls menu information from an XML file. To add a
menu block all I should have to do is add the text to the flash
file and then add a block of code to the XML file. The issue I'm
having is that when I attempt to add a 9th main menu item, its
submenu doesn't display correctly.
I've been wracking my brain on this one for days and can't
figure it out. Any help anyone could offer would be greatly
appreciated.

JodiBurgess wrote:
> I have a frameset, the navigation frame uses flash for
the navigation - basic
> getURL code with target frame "MAIN" (which is the name
of the frame I want to
> target). This worked fine in IE6, but when I upgraded to
IE7 clicking on the
> navigation caused it to fire off a new window (as if I
had given it a target
> "_blank").
Try another name, words like Main or mainFrame are reserved
and always caused
problems. Give the frame some unique name Jodi_frame etc...
Also, don't forget to test it on server, not locally.
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Why is the Photoshop font size extremely small for their navigation menus and tools?

Why is the font size for the Photoshop Cloud navigation menus and tools displaying extremely small on my laptop? I can barely see them. The other Adobe Cloud applications don't display small.

funkotronic13 wrote:
Is a readable interface an unreasonable expectation?
Not at all, and we should well expect that Adobe is working on it. By their own admission they ARE working on it. I don't sense "deafening silence" at all. But results won't/can't be instantaneous and they're not going to promise you release dates. Life is not like that, no matter how many times you click your red shoes together.
It's not hard to understand that right now only a small minority of Photoshop users are running high dpi screens that can't take advantage of the 200% setting. And it was the choice of those users to buy such hardware even in light of the fact that Photoshop can't work fully well on it yet. Adobe didn't force anyone to buy a 150 ppi display.
Frankly, if you've chosen such hardware even though Photoshop doesn't offer 150% scaling, it's your own fault. I recently invested well over $1000 in a new monitor and I planned well enough ahead to buy a 100ppi model (Dell U3014, and it's GREAT). There's a reason that very new technology is called "bleeding edge". If you want "To Work" instead of "Dealing With Quirks", sometimes you have to be conservative.
A majority of Photoshop users DO expect new and useful features, however, such as new tools, new camera support in Camera Raw, etc., so Adobe understandably cannot dedicate every resource they have to revamping Photoshop's user interface just for a special few folks who have irresponsibly adopted new display technology.
We can debate all day how much Adobe ought to be spending on engineering development, but you and I don't run the company. We don't make business decisions for them. I do, however, claim to understand their capabilities and limitations - possibly better than most - because I'm in the same business.
I can only recommend you be patient. One day Photoshop will respond to your desktop settings.
What the heck has anybody ever accomplished here, with Adobe, in either fashion?
Rhetorical or not, some quite tangible things do come to mind...
At one time I couldn’t paste my clipboard containing a grayscale image into a new document via an action assigned to a key; the color engine would crash. Today I can do so without incident.
At one time multiple Help windows would pop up unexpectedly, often when working in the Styles panel. Today they don’t.
At one time I had to select Basic GPU mode. Today I use Advanced GPU mode without a problem.
Once running Liquify or Smart Sharpen or a number of other things were slow, especially on big images. Now they're quite fast, with GPU acceleration.
At one time an action could not write data back to a document when in windowed mode. Today it works.
At one time panorama stitching and focus stacking did not work. Now it works.
At one time most filters only worked on 8 bits/channel data. Now many of them can handle 16 bits/channel.
Once naysayers predicted that the Photoshop Photography bundle would shoot up in price. Yet today it's still $9.99 a month.
Once it was impossible to read Photoshop's UI on a 200+ ppi screen. Now there's a new 200% setting for that.
I'm sure I can think of other things. And of course the software isn't perfect today. It never will be absolutely perfect.
Station_two, are you keeping up with the latest Photoshop releases? If not, I submit that your rhetoric may be falling out of date.
-Noel

Can I place a html5 or flash video of a surfer in the header section?

I have been asked to build a home page with a video of a surfer riding a wave at a fun surfing location. We think it would be cool for the web user to come to the home page and right away watch a surfer catching a wave and riding accross in the video in good size area of the header section of the home page. Not sure what technology is available to best do this...html5 or flash or even java any suggestions would be helpful.
I have been browsing the web to see other similar examples and ideas to get a feel for the best way to approach this.

Yeah I get it. You want a video banner. It doesn't really matter where you want your video placed on your page. The point is you want a video on your page, right? I think you're over-thinking it, dude. It doesn't matter to techies if the video is of a surfer at a popular surfer location. It could be a video of a surfer doing a bellyflop in a mud puddle for all it matters. That's irreclevant to the technical discussion. Try to boil your problem down to the basics here. I'm just wondering what your problem is. Are you having a problem embedding a video or what exactly? If you're having a problem embedding a video on your page then I suggest using YouTube as a cross browser solution. You can use the embed parameters to customize your YouTube video to do things such as autoplay, loop, custom size, hide YT controls, etc. Give it a try for a simple solution.
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Multi level navigation menus in iweb

Hi iweb experts
I am creating a website that has multi levels. Basically a main page that links to 2 other main pages one for each of my kids and would like to have the navigation menus reflect that fact in iweb.
So on the main page should have only home, son1, son2
and then on each on the main webs have the links specific to that website.
I can do this multi level in frontpage just fine, can this be done in iweb as well. I know I can create many site and link them but it makes it harder to maintain the external links between each of the pages.
Is there an easier way?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Samer

No, iWeb does not do this, but you can do it without having to build your own nav menu.
Use the page template navigation menu and have your main page in the navigation menu and this will show up - you can then have individual pages coming off this such as Person1 Person2 and when you create these pages they don't have to be in the navigation menu - all you do is open the Inspector and then open Page - the first one along and then click on "Don't show in navigation menu" and the "Don't include in navigation menu" options. On the two hidden or sub pages, which is what they are called, you can then place your own links such as Back and Next by using a text box or a shape.
This can be done and using the ordinary navigation menu too.
If you meant anything else, such a drop down menu - this requires a lot of code to be used and unless you know something about html and javascript I would not even bother to do it.

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You will have to create KM navigation iview . and give path up to ypur folder. You will see all the sub folders in it.
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Flash navigation won't always load page

A web site I'm working on working uses Flash for the
navigation. There's a primary vertical navigation bar and all links
work. There are two vertical menu bars that appear separately when
certain buttons are rolled over on the primary bar. One of the
secondary bars works fine. The second one however is the one
causing me grief...it's a movie clip. When I click on a button, it
opens like an accordion revealing additional links. When any of the
links are clicked, a new web page is supposed to load. Sometimes
the appropriate page loads, sometimes not.
I've used getURL throughout and it works everywhere but in
that navigation bar.
Every html page has a different flash file. Sometimes when
the html page doesn't load the appropriate page, the proper flash
navigation appears though.
I've gone over the code for every button on every page and
searched forums, but still can't find what I've done wrong. Any
help would be appreciated.

Hi
I am having the same problem. I was working on word and then it crashed. I then switched it off and now all I get is the apple and the wheel going round. I bought my mac in 2011.
Anyone know hoe to fix it
Dawn

AS2 XML Flash Navigation

Hello All,
I have been creating a dynamic Flash Navigation based on a tutorial I found online.
I'm having issues aligning the MovieClip house all the array names from My XML file.
I'm using:
var yPosition:Number = 118;
var xPosition:Number = 250;
to align the Movie Clip. For some reason I can adjust the yPosition but I cant get the xPosition to move my MovieClip at all. >:(
Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers-
Graeme

Heres the code I'm using:
//Store Button Position
var yPosition:Number = 118;
var xPosition:Number = 250;
//Declare New XML Object
var myXML:XML = new XML();
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myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
//Declare new Array to store the links from the XML file
var links:Array = new Array();
//Declare new Array to store the names from the XML file
var names:Array = new Array();
//Set XML onLoad function
myXML.onLoad = function(){
    //Set varible to store the XML childNodes
    //This allows you to get the number of buttons in the XML file.
    //You'll use this tell flash how many times to loop the for loop.
    var linkname:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
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        //Set the y position of the buttons
        _root["btn"+i]._y = yPosition;
        //Increace the varible yPosition 15 pixel each time the loop runs to place each button under each other
        yPosition = yPosition+25;
        //Place the button name from names Array into the blackTxt text box
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        //Place the button name from names Array into the whiteTxt text box
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Flash navigation and frames

I have flash navigation buttons in top frame. When the
navigation/menu buttons are clicked the content should load in the
'body' frame. What is actually occurring is the content is opening
in a new window. I've checked the frame name and actions etc in
flash. Can anyone provide advice on why this isn't working?

What is the link to your page?
Is this something that your school is requiring, or was the
decision to use
Flash nav and frames yours?
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"Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:[email protected]...
> If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -
>
> 1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they
do?
> 2. Search engines don't parse Flash links - your site
will not be
> spidered
> 3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links -
what will those
> users
> do?
> 4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if
you move or
> rename
> a linked file, your navigation will break - what will
you do?
>
> It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons...
>
> The decision to use or not use frames should be based on
a) your site's
> needs, and b) your willingness to accept the potential
problems that
> frames can create for you as developer and maintainer of
the site and for
> your visitors as casual users of the site.
>
> I am down on frames because I believe that they create
many more problems
> than they solve.
> Judging from the posts here, and the kinds of problems
that are described,
> the kind of person most likely to elect to use frames is
also the kind of
> person most likely ill-prepared fo solve the ensuing
problems when they
> arise. If you feel a) that you understand the problems
and b) that you
> are prepared to handle them when they occur, and c) that
you have a need
> to use frames, then by all means use them.
>
> As far as I know, the most comprehensive discussions of
frames and their
> potential problems can be found on these two links -
>
>
http://apptools.com/rants/framesevil.php
>
http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/frames/
>
> Combining both makes you the award winner for the day!
>
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> "GreenWat" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I have flash navigation buttons in top frame. When
the navigation/menu
>>buttons
>> are clicked the content should load in the 'body'
frame. What is
>> actually
>> occurring is the content is opening in a new window.
I've checked the
>> frame
>> name and actions etc in flash. Can anyone provide
advice on why this
>> isn't
>> working?
>>
>

Flash navigation and html files

I have a Flash navigation banner. The navigation banner
contains seven buttons. Each button when clicked goes to different
frames in the Flash movie. So, the first interaction is to make the
movie to go to a particular frame, which I was able to do easily.
On those frames, I also would like to load or link to HTML page.
Like frame 10 will be page1.htm, frame 18 will be page2.htm so on
and so forth. How do I link .htm files and the single navigation
bar where each button would go to a specific frame and play the
frame? I don’t want to use frames in my html docs. Is there
any other solution? Please help!!
Thank you in advance.
FA

Thank you for reply. I appreciate it. So, if I understand
correctly:
I would embed the navbar.swf in all my html files. Then Each
button would go to each html pages (Like page1.htm page2.htm
etc...) Then I use your code in my html file right? Like each html
file will have the following code:
<param name="movie" value="nav.swf?frame=page2">
Is that how it works. Sorry for not being able to your
answer.
Thank you very much again

Flash navigation and HTML forms

Wondering if any one can help. Whenever I use an html form on
an html page, my flash navigation will not show up. The area where
it should be is blank and my browser status bar says that there are
two items remaining (my flash navs). The browser stays like this
indefinately, not completely loading the page.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Elise

Thank you for reply. I appreciate it. So, if I understand
correctly:
I would embed the navbar.swf in all my html files. Then Each
button would go to each html pages (Like page1.htm page2.htm
etc...) Then I use your code in my html file right? Like each html
file will have the following code:
<param name="movie" value="nav.swf?frame=page2">
Is that how it works. Sorry for not being able to your
answer.
Thank you very much again

Embedding an SWF Flash Navigation into Dreamweaver

My website http://www.theboxinghistorian.com/ has already been created and has a lot of files, at the moment whenever i make a change to my spry navigation i do it through the template which automatically updates every page.
Now I was looking to remove the spry navigation and to add a flash SWF File as my navigation, however I am relatively new to this and was wondering if adding such a file as my navigation is a simple case of updating the change through the template and once again every page through the Webstite would be updated. Or would there be more complex issues i would need to Iron out as im using flash in dreamweaver.........

My advice would be to forget about using Flash for navigation and stick with your Spry menu for now - but make it more efficient (see below).
There are no upsides and too many downsides to Flash navigation including relying on the Flash plugin being available on your vfisitors computer (what do they do if Flash is not available for them?), search engines struggle with Flash without some clever coding by you (why bother?) and maintaining the navbar is a major pain (have to recreate the Flash file every time).
The navigation you're currently using looks OK but I suggest implementing it as a Server Side Include instead of propagating it through your Template every time.
Whilst the Template approach works, the major downside is that you have to upload every page of your website every time you change the Template. That gets old, fast.
If you convert just the HTML part of your navigation (the ul structure) to a single tiny external text file (an Include) which the server then Includes in the page dynamically every time, you have minimal work to do to update your navigation bar whenever you wish. Just update the tiny text file (e.g. add/delete/move an <li> in the code), upload it to the server and your entire site is instantly up-to-date.
Adding your navbar to the page as a Server Side Include transforms maintenance from a lengthy mundane chore to a pleasure.

Target another frame in a framset from flash navigation

Target another frame in a frameset with for example
getUrl (example.html, "rightFrame");
has Adobe released some solution?
- Right now we migrate from Flash towards PowerPoint and CSS,
because
the lack of answers and interactivity in Flash because of
Microsofts "security pathes" in IE 6 and 7
Right now I cant find a simple solution of how to target
another
frame from a frame in the same html-doc from a button in a
flash navigation.
Am I right or wrong? It looks like everyone avoid this simple
question?
- Why?
And I still appreciate every possible answer that could solve my
problem and a lot of problem to other
interactive producer.

Cant target another frame in the same frameset (2 frames -
LeftFrame and RightFrame ) in the same html.doc
This is the code I have applied to the Flash button
in a frame called navigation in LeftFrame:
on(release){
getURL("right.htm", rightFrame);
For some reason I can't get the page to open in the target
frame (RightFrame).
It will only pop up in a new window. (_blank)
Microsoft has done a some security restriction since februari
2006.
The problem is that you cant use flash navigation in the same
frameset no longer.
I´ve serched everywhere and it looks like there is no
simple solution to this problem.
Adobe suggest that you Work around with Javascript.
But what´s happend if the user disable JavaScript in the
WebBrowser?
Isn´t that obvious - it´s a strategic issue for the
Interactive webbindustry.
It´s a crossroad - which way webdesigners/developers,
markering managers
e-commerce managers.., want to choose to work along with
databases, content
management system and so on.
If Flash not can provide an easy way of targeting another
frame in a webbrowser for
its customers, the customers have to choose a another
solution - CSS+php or even worse
- PowerPoint.
I already migrate to CSS, PHP and PowerPoint because of
Adobes late response of Microsoft so called
"..because of security reason".
At least I hope Adobe is interested of producing a motion
tutorial of how to solve the problems by
Javascript or whatever complex and not user friendly
solution
they come up with.
Do you understand now?
If you can provide a simple code below - please tell me -
I really appreciate that!!!!!
Code on flash button in LeftFrame:
OnPress (I appreciate some bright solution here or som e link
to how I solve the problem.)

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