Namo Web Editor

Link style

You can choose between text links and button image links. For button links, you can choose any Smart ClipArt image or Flash Button in the resource library. See “Selecting a navigation bar button image” below.

For text links, you can specify the following options:

• the formatting of the links (font, font color, font size, and text style)
• the amount of space between links (if the navigation bar is vertical)
• the words to use for Previous, Next, Up, and Home links
• the characters to use as separators between links
• the maximum number of numbered page links (if the navigation bar type is page number links)

To specify these options, click the … button next to the Text option under Link style.

Orientation

You can choose horizontal or vertical orientation.

Include home page

If the selected navigation bar type is User-defined, Main level, Parent level, Siblings, or Children, you can force the navigation bar to include a link to the site’s home or main index page by selecting this option. The home page link will be the first link in the bar.

Show popup submenus

If you select this option, each link in the navigation bar to a node that has children will show a pop-up menu of links to that node’s child nodes. You can customize the appearance of the pop-up submenu by clicking the … button next to the option. This option is not available if the link style is set to Flash Button.

Show sublevels

For vertical navigation bars only, selecting this option will cause the navigation bar to show a second set of links, under the link to the current document’s ancestor (if the link exists), to the ancestor’s children. These ancestor’s-child links are always text links, even if the bar’s link style is Smart ClipArt or Flash Button. You can customize the appearance of the ancestor’s-child links by clicking the … button next to the option.

Target

Specifies the target window or frame in which the navigation bar’s links will open, except for the Home link (if any), which will open in the target specified in the Home target option.

Home target

Specifies the target window or frame in which the Home link will open, if the navigation bar has one.

For a dynamic navigation bar that uses button images for its links, you can specify an image of your choosing or just use the default image. The default image is selected as follows:

• If the links style of a dynamic navigation bar is set to Smart ClipArt and the current document has a theme applied to it, the default button image is the Horizontal Button or the Vertical Button that belongs to the theme, depending on the bar’s orientation.
• If the link style is set to Smart ClipArt and the document has no theme, the default button image is a generic Smart ClipArt button.
• If the link style is set to Flash Button, the default button image is a generic Flash Button button.

To specify a different button image, do the following:

1. In the Navigation Bar Properties dialog box, click the … button next to either Smart ClipArt or Flash Button, depending on which type of image you want to use.
2. Click Select.
3. In the left pane, select an image category.
4. In the right pane, select the desired image, and then click OK.
5. (optional) If you want to modify the image, click Modify and edit the image. (See “Modifying Smart ClipArt images” or “Using Flash Buttons” for more information.)
6. Click OK.