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Controlling What Appears in the Navigation

Penney Layne's Site Builder is a very powerful DIY Web Design Tool. It has so many features and it is hard to find the time to explore everything all at once.

When you purchased the Site Builder Hosting Plan, you may or may not have opted for Penney Layne to install your web graphics. So how your website appeared when you first logged in would have something to do with that. Regardless, here are some pointers for dealing with the Left Navigation Content when you first access the builder.

Site Builder offers the flexibility of using TEXT or BUTTONS for the left navigation appearance. The builder defaults to text, so when you first access the builder, a few links appear in black text. You may or may not want to keep these links on the navigation. That is up to you. How you wish them to appear is also up to you.

When you purchase a webset from us for our Site Builder, we include a lot of buttons that you may not even have requested. That is because we know the wonderful extras included with our builder, and we include a button so you can easily utilize these site extras.

Site Extras are covered individually in greater detail in a separate Help Section. Here we will focus on Text and Image Links in the Left Navigation.

In the builder, under Administration on the right side, there is a link to Catalog Setup. In Catalog Setup on the right toward the bottom, there is: Featured Link, New Item Link, All Item Link, and Sale Link. You can click Yes or No for these four pages, determining if they WILL or WILL NOT appear in the left nav.

If you choose to turn those pages on, the link default is text. If you wish to apply the button or graphic image to those pages rather than the text link, follow these steps.

Click on Images under Web Site on the left. Instead of going to Image List, go to Catalog Images. For an example, look for Featured Navigation Image in the list. If you want to upload your graphic button to replace the text link, click on UPLOAD below that field for Featured Navigation Image. Click Browse when it appears, find the appropriate Graphic Button, and double click. Click Load Image, then Click Add to Form so that it places it in the Featured Navigation Image space. Be sure to then click Update at the very bottom of Catalog Images. These steps will replace the Navigation Text with a Navigation Graphic. The Sale Navigation, the New Navigation, etc. are all handled the same way. These are "Catalog" Images.

Some of the default templates have a "home" button programmed into the code that at first appears as a red "x" at the top of the left nav. This is remedied by uploading the graphic button "homebtn.gif" and the name must be homebtn.gif, not home.gif or anything else, but homebtn.gif. To upload the homebtn.gif image, click on images, show images, then browse and upload the homebtn.gif and it will replace the red "x" in the nav.

If you now have a Home button at the top of the nav, and a texted home farther down in the nav, you will need to go to Pages. Edit index.php, and select "No" for "Show Link." That will keep the page active and accessible, but remove the navigation link.

For any other text links you wish to remove, access their pages and select "No" for "Show Link." If there is a text link and you want to keep the link but replace it with an image button, then access the Page. Click edit. Click the upload button next to the Nav Image, select the graphic, add to form, and it will then replace the text link.

This tutorial covers the basic fundamentals of adding navigation links to pages. Navigations images for pages are added either by editing the page itself and uploading a navigation image, or uploading a pre-existent catalog image in the second section of the images link.