Different Spry Menu Bars on a Single Website

I am redesigning my college's Website and we are extensively using CSS for the
design. Part of this process involves navigation bars on each page. Currently,
we use differing colors to identify sections of the site to visitors and want
to continue this in the future. My problem is this...when I set the "base" menu
design, Dreamweaver CS3 creates a SpryAssets folder with the settings for my
menu for the front page. However, when I start creating a page for a different
section of the site and drag a spry asset onto the page and begin formatting
it, the new design overwrites the settings in the original SpryAssets folder
which is created at the root level of the site. Is there a way that I can have
Dreamweaver create a SpryAssets folder for each iteration of my menu bar and
put it in the directory of the page I am designing instead of writing over the
folder that was originally created?

I would love to use spry menus in Dreamweaver to speed up the redesign
process, but I'm getting frustrated with making this work.

Any suggestions are welcome.

The base page design can be viewed at http://www.mayland.edu/test/

David Biddix

Call the second menu SpryMenu2 and change the references for that menu
accordingly, including the CSS page . .which is where the look of the menu
is stored anyway.


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"maylandmac" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am redesigning my college's Website and we are extensively using CSS for
the
design. Part of this process involves navigation bars on each page.
Currently,
we use differing colors to identify sections of the site to visitors and
want
to continue this in the future. My problem is this...when I set the "base"
menu
design, Dreamweaver CS3 creates a SpryAssets folder with the settings for
my
menu for the front page. However, when I start creating a page for a
different
section of the site and drag a spry asset onto the page and begin
formatting
it, the new design overwrites the settings in the original SpryAssets
folder
which is created at the root level of the site. Is there a way that I can
have
Dreamweaver create a SpryAssets folder for each iteration of my menu bar
and
put it in the directory of the page I am designing instead of writing over
the
folder that was originally created?

I would love to use spry menus in Dreamweaver to speed up the redesign
process, but I'm getting frustrated with making this work.

Any suggestions are welcome.

The base page design can be viewed at http://www.mayland.edu/test/

David Biddix

Call the second menu SpryMenu2 and change the references for that menu
accordingly, including the CSS page . .which is where the look of the menu
is stored anyway.


--
Nancy Gill
Adobe Community Expert
Author: Dreamweaver 8 e-book for the DMX Zone
Co-Author: Dreamweaver MX: Instant Troubleshooter (August, 2003)
Technical Editor: Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual,
DMX 2004: The Complete Reference, DMX 2004: A Beginner's Guide
Mastering Macromedia Contribute
Technical Reviewer: Dynamic Dreamweaver MX/DMX: Advanced PHP Web Development

"maylandmac" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am redesigning my college's Website and we are extensively using CSS for
the
design. Part of this process involves navigation bars on each page.
Currently,
we use differing colors to identify sections of the site to visitors and
want
to continue this in the future. My problem is this...when I set the "base"
menu
design, Dreamweaver CS3 creates a SpryAssets folder with the settings for
my
menu for the front page. However, when I start creating a page for a
different
section of the site and drag a spry asset onto the page and begin
formatting
it, the new design overwrites the settings in the original SpryAssets
folder
which is created at the root level of the site. Is there a way that I can
have
Dreamweaver create a SpryAssets folder for each iteration of my menu bar
and
put it in the directory of the page I am designing instead of writing over
the
folder that was originally created?

I would love to use spry menus in Dreamweaver to speed up the redesign
process, but I'm getting frustrated with making this work.

Any suggestions are welcome.

The base page design can be viewed at http://www.mayland.edu/test/

David Biddix

Make a copy of your CSS file for the menu and rename it to whatever you want.

Then, within the code of the NEW page with a different menu on it, change the
name of the automatically linked CSS file to that of the new one.

Enjoy!

Glenn

Make a copy of your CSS file for the menu and rename it to whatever you want.

Then, within the code of the NEW page with a different menu on it, change the
name of the automatically linked CSS file to that of the new one.

Enjoy!

Glenn

I used same way u said but Some design isues are there will you please give another option

I used same way u said but Some design isues are there will you please give another option

I am selecting the menu option from the spry menu and it creates SpryMenu1. How
can I force it to change the name to another number? When I try to create the
menu in this way, it still overwrites my formatted CSS for the original menu
when I drag the new one onto a page?

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm just trying to learn why things work the way
they do.

I am selecting the menu option from the spry menu and it creates SpryMenu1. How
can I force it to change the name to another number? When I try to create the
menu in this way, it still overwrites my formatted CSS for the original menu
when I drag the new one onto a page?

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm just trying to learn why things work the way
they do.

Glen,

I tried your option of making a copy of the Spry directory into other
directories on the site and then linking menus on those pages to these new
directories, but it just doesn't want to work right. I'm thinking I need to
re-name the menu something else to help, but again, I don't know how that can
be done within Dreamweaver before the menu is created. Can you provide any
tutorials or resources for Dreamweaver where I could read up on sprys over and
above what is in the CS3 help menus.