Strange Navigation Bar Behavior

Hi, I'm currently designing a web page for non-profit government organization.

Unfortunately, I'm running into some strange behavioral problems with the
navigation bar.
The tabs in my navigation bar run from left to right. As the links are visited
through the navigation bar, the links to the left of which ever link is active
stop working. I can't for the life of me figure out why!

The pages are arranged in such a way that each page involves three html files.
One body file, one navigation bar file with it's respective tab hilighted, and
a little file that simply loads the two, one on top of the other. The tabs in
the navigation bar are linked to the file that then loads the body and
navigation(of course). Clicking on a tab to the right of the active tab loads
everything perfectly. However, if the active tab is the right-most tab, the
tabs to the left no longer work properly. They seem to reload the navigation
bar, but the body gets left behind and the URL still appears to be that of the
right-most tab.

Here is an example of my site in progress:
http://www.tfyhalton.ca/intra/pol/intra_pol.htm
By going through the four tabs at the top, you can quickly see things are
going wrong.
The drop-down menu can be used to access the same pages that the navigation
bar refuses to load.

If you could please take a look at the site and reply with any comments or
suggestions as to what might be going wrong or what I could do to fix it, I
would be very grateful.

Note that I previously read something about strange navigation bar behavior
being caused by image names beginning with numbers. This isn't what's happening
here as my image names are all "image 1" etc.

Also note that I'm using dreamweaver8

Thank you in advance for your help.

- Paul M
- Transitions for Youth
- paulm (AT) tfyhalton (DOT) ca

I looked at your source and Ive had similar problems.

If your page doesnt revolve around so many pages maybe by leaivng all
your html in the same area and hence removing the ../ from your source
it should work. or write the full address for your links (Example :
http://www.tfyhalton.ca/intra/manr/intra_manr.htm).

When i work with frames and write ../ to go files in other folders i
usually get trouble. hopefully this will work for you. if not let me
know.

thanks
gabriel

Your pathing to the links is incorrect. When you just put the name of the page
it is assuming that the page is in the same folder as it current page.

For example, your link to the newsletter is looking for the page at
http://www.tfyhalton.ca/intra/pol/news_exdirreport.htm

but the page is actually located at
http://www.tfyhalton.ca/news_exdirreport.htm. This could be solved by using
site relative links, which can be setup in the site definition.

If you have other questions or problems making this work, let us know!

Thanks!

Well thanks for the suggestion, but that's not actually the problem I'm having.

The newsletter link along with all that other stuff on the left hand side is
just stuff I havn't gotten to yet.

The problem I'm having is with the navigation tabs at the TOP of the
page(policies, forms, info and M.R.)! I know the links for those tabs are
correct, because I can see from hovering over the tabs that they're pointing in
the right direction, and if it's the policies page(leftmost tab at the top) I'm
on, all the tabs to the right work perfectly. The problem is that when I'm on
any other page (such as the M.R. page which is the rightmost tab), all the tabs
to the left of it mysteriously stop working!

What about your target. Im not sure how you have your frames set up
but if they are pointing in the right direction like you say then check
if you are you opening them in the
corrent frame.

-Gabriel

paulmcmonagle wrote:

Well thanks for the suggestion, but that's not actually the problem I'm having.

The newsletter link along with all that other stuff on the left hand side is
just stuff I havn't gotten to yet.

The problem I'm having is with the navigation tabs at the TOP of the
page(policies, forms, info and M.R.)! I know the links for those tabs are
correct, because I can see from hovering over the tabs that they're pointing in
the right direction, and if it's the policies page(leftmost tab at the top) I'm
on, all the tabs to the right work perfectly. The problem is that when I'm on
any other page (such as the M.R. page which is the rightmost tab), all the tabs
to the left of it mysteriously stop working!

They are all not coded the same. Some have target="_top" and it varies from page to page.

AH-HA! That's what the problem was! I'm changing them all to _top now, and it seems to have solved the problem.

Thanks so much for your help!