Smart way to auto update pop-up menu in nav bar?

Question

Smart way to keep updating pop-up menu in Nav bar ?
I created a template in DW 8. It is used to generate many
other pages for the site. only the page content region is editable.
There is a nav bar in the template. Some buttons of the nav bar
display pop-up menu when MouseOver . Those pop-up menu need to be
changed from time to time. What is the best way to automatically
update the pop-up menu in those templated-generated files, using
template (I tried to define the nav bar as editable region,
modified the pop-ups and saved the template. I got a lots of
unexpected problems, DW8 even crashed), using libray items or
something else? I am a relatively new DW developer. Much appreciate
if someone could help.

Answer 1

If the navigation is in a non-editable region of the
template, then changes
to it will propagate automatically to all child pages - are
you not seeing
that happen?
> I tried to define the nav bar as editable region
You wouldn't usually want to do that.
> I got a lots of unexpected problems, DW8 even
> crashed
You must have made other errors. Doing something like this
would surely not
crash DW.
The only problem with having the navigation in the
non-editable region of
the template is that a change to it will touch *every* file
in the site,
each of which must then be uploaded again. To solve this
problem you can
use server-side includes for the navigation. Then you would
make your
change to the include file, upload it, and all pages would
reflect that
change.
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Smart way to keep updating pop-up menu in Nav bar ?
> I created a template in DW 8. It is used to generate
many other pages
> for
> the site. only the page content region is editable.
There is a nav bar in
> the
> template. Some buttons of the nav bar display pop-up
menu when MouseOver .
> Those pop-up menu need to be changed from time to time.
What is the best
> way to
> automatically update the pop-up menu in those
templated-generated files,
> using
> template (I tried to define the nav bar as editable
region, modified the
> pop-ups and saved the template. I got a lots of
unexpected problems, DW8
> even
> crashed), using libray items or something else? I am a
relatively new DW
> developer. Much appreciate if someone could help.
>