Problems with index.html

Question

When I first started using dreamweaver mx 2004 I created my
site in what I now think might be the wrong way but that was what
the books that I was using at the time said to do.
I created a site folder and then I created the homepage. I
then created two more folders inside the site folder, one called
text_copy and one called images_copy (in a different website I
created everything inside the main site folder-images,homepage and
text files all live together).
This original method of separating everything has come back
to haunt me.
Dreamweaver wants your homepage called index.html and when I
type in my domain-
dimension x toys
the homepage comes up. But the problem is none of the
javascript pull down menus that I have created work on the
homepage. They work on all of the other pages in the site but not
this one. I created another page called index and set it inside the
main text_copy folder. This page-
index2
has the pull downs work but it cannot be accessed as the
homepage.
Is the only alternative to
1. re-create the entire site
2. move all the information from the other folders out into
the main folder.
I hope there is a solution with what I currently have because
the website is a lot of pages. Option 2 is less work but all of the
links to the other files and images would be broken and it still
while less, would be a considerable amount of work as I have a
great many pages to the website.
Thank you for your time.
harlan1s

Answer 1

you have to change the paths for the root level index page.
The links won't
have the same relative path as the ones that are in the
subfolder.
did you just copy/paste the menu onto the index page from a
page in the
subfolder? Or do a "save as"?
Look in the head section of the code.
The sections of javascript that start with mm_menu are the
instructions for
how that menu works.
mm_menu_1215135054_0.addMenuItem("13 INCH FIGURES","location='../t
ext_copy/batman13family.html'");
for the root level homepage index.html file, that link should
be:
mm_menu_1215135054_0.addMenuItem("13 INCH FIGURES","location='text
_copy/batman13family.html'");
Look at the location= part.
notice i took out ../
and actually- for the menu on pages IN the text_copy folder
linking to other
pages IN the text_copy folder- the correct relative path
would be:
mm_menu_1215135054_0.addMenuItem("13 INCH FIGURES","location='batm
an13family.html'");
There's no need to go Up a folder, then go down into the same
current
folder.
another way to do it, so it's the same on all the pages,
would be to use the
full absolute http path.
mm_menu_1215135054_0.addMenuItem("13 INCH FIGURES","location='http
://www.dimensionxtoys.com/text_copy/batman13family.html'");
note- those menus have problems and are a maintenence
nightmare. A menu
built from tutorials and free extensions at
http://projectseven.com would
make life easier and work better.