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dallas
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Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/22/2005 20:25:18
I have added a flash intro page to my web site and now when you navigate around and you try to get back to the home page it takes you to the flash intro page. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Here is my site: www.perspectives-family.org
My flash page is named index.html and my home page is index.htm. I was too afraid to rename the home page when it prompted me that there could be problems if I did so.
Thanks for you help,
Dallas
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Kitka
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/22/2005 21:52:22
Because your "Home" button in the Nav bar is linked to the base domain name, and this will always load the default index page, which in your case appears to be "index.html".
If you want the Home button to link to "index.htm" (the page you are sent to from the flash intro) then you need to code your Home button correctly.
Either index.htm or http://www.perspectives-family.org/index.htm will do it.
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dallas
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/22/2005 23:55:22
Kitka,
How do you do this when your navigation is part of a theme? I cannot find where I can change this information in Frontpage 2002.
Thanks,
Dallas
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/23/2005 18:22:56
Kitka,
I did what you suggested and it prompted me that this was my home page already. But for giggles I went a head and re-posted to see if it had made the change but it didn't. It still goes back to the intro page. Any other ideas?
Thanks,
dallas
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Kitka
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/23/2005 19:26:20
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Any other ideas?
Yes - try renaming it anything but index.htm (e.g. index2.htm or welcome.htm) and ensure that it stays as the designated Home page. FP might try to make "index.html" the home page when you change the name.
Good luck.
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/30/2005 13:07:34
Kita,
It's amazing that your the only professional that has responded to this problem and believe me I appreciate it.
Okay I tried changing the name of the index.htm page as you suggested. I changed it to welcome.htm and to home.htm. Here is what happened my flash intro disappeared. The home button worked but my flash page wouldn't come up when I started the website. Although it was still listed on the server as index.html. The funny thing about this is that if the page is listed as .html it is suppose to automatically be the starting page from my webhosting company. As soon as I reversed it back the flash page started up again.
Thanks for your patience. I wish we had someone else to bounce this around with.
Dallas
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/30/2005 14:24:44
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As soon as I reversed it back the flash page started up again.
Weird!
The simplest way to change a nav button's properties is to right click on it and edit the "Link To" field. But if it is a part of a whole FP navigation bar which is generated automatically, you'll have to find where FP is getting its direction from. I thought it was controlled by setting a page as "Home Page"as discussed above.
One other possibility might be your navigation structure. Checkout which page is showing as Home Page in there. Plus, ensure that index.htm is top of the pile, and that index.html is not included in the structure, except maybe separately (to the right of index.htm) as a "Top Page".
Good luck - I'm sure we'll work this out soon.
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/31/2005 1:39:17
Kita,
Something baffling happened. I moved the index.html over to the side of the index.htm (homepage) and it jumped into the home page position. Then I took the index.htm page and added it to my nav. structure and threw it up on the server. It works. The index page is listed now as it's own link but the home page link, which I uncheck is there - if you click on that it goes to the flash page. But you can get back to my real homepage on any page now. Funny - I am not sure what happened. Although I don't like the home link on there I cannot figure out how to remove it. I guess I should just count my blessings for now. Don't you find this weird?
I am wondering if frontpage recognized the index.html as being a default page. After all the advice, everyone said not to make the index.html page the homepage and this happens.
Any comments? Puzzling....
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/31/2005 8:03:33
dallas,
Dave Pheiffer of FrontLook discusses this very subject here: http://www.frontlook.com/newsletters/tip2-3.asp .
Although within the framework of one of his own products (FX), he emphasizes there is a distinct difference between a home page and a default page. He goes on to say that, once a Splash entry page has been constructed and published, the host should be contacted to make it (the Splash entry page) the default page. I gather that once this is done the entire navigation web site structure will operate independently including button or other reference to the actual home page.
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/31/2005 11:59:29
Larry,
What is Frontlook? I don't seem to have that and maybe that isn't the message here. Something very weird happened yesterday. When I dragged over the splash page in the nav. structure view next to the home page, it popped in as my homepage, replacing my index.htm page. I dragged the homepage into the child portion of the nav. structure, which created a button to the home page but also added a button that I didn't ask for for the splash page. I posted it and it all works. I really don't want the home page button that goes back to my splash page but I don't know how to get rid of it. As far as calling my web hosting company, they don't support Frontpage only the extensions. However, I can change the home page in manager. Which is how I got the splash page to be the start page to begin with. My homepage has to start with the extension .html to show up on the internet. So by calling them I am not sure they could do anything differently. Any thoughts or ideas? I could be doing this all wrong to begin with.
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dallas
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/31/2005 12:08:44
Larry,
Actually, the problem to begin with was never the splash page but the home button. The splash page was always separate and the default page. But the home buttom would direct people back to the splash page not the home page. That is where the problem is. Now I have just been monkeying around trying to correc this problem.
I can eliminate the home button but then my viewers could not get back to the home page.
I understand how to put up the flash/splash page as the default page. That's been up for months. With a theme you cannot click on the buttons and create a link. I don't understand why the home button isn't recognizing the home page (set as my homepage) and it redirects to the index.html flash page instead. Ah that is the question.
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Larry M.
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/31/2005 12:44:32
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and maybe that isn't the message here
dallas,
No it wasn't - the hierarchical server treatment between a default/home page was. This becomes more complicated since you are working with a theme, not CSS.
Best thing is to post your URL and let the OF coders have a go at it.
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem - 5/31/2005 16:20:02
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Best thing is to post your URL and let the OF coders have a go at it.
Larry, the URL is in the original message. However, this isn't an issue that can be solved by looking at the coding. It is in the FP navigation.
Dallas, have you tried selecting your Nav bar > right click > select Properties, then uncheck the box for including the Home button?
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RE: Flash Intro and Home page problem (solved) - 6/2/2005 19:54:07
Kita,
I have finally found the answer and by complete trial and error.
To help anyone else out there that is having this same problem here is the solution if you are working in Frontpage 2002 and you have a theme.
If you have a flash intro and you want to be able to use the home button to go to your home page - this is what you do. You must name your intro.htm flash page to index.html then drop and drag it in your navigational structure next to the current home page. Frontpage 2002 will see this as your homepage. It will then move into the home page spot. Then move your homepage (mine is titled index.htm) onto the first child level, make it your first page. This will restructure your navigational links to show your home page button first. It will not change your home page status. It remains your homepage and you will see the little house symbol. This will allow your visitors to use the first link on your nav bar to go back your sites home page. NOTE: Do not check your home option on the Link Bar Properties as this will creat a link that will take your visitors to your intro page. You will have to drop and drag all your pages back into the nav structure. So basically you are rebuilding your Link Bar Nav. Buttons. Hopefully you don't have a big site.
If you are confused by the above, please email me and I will try to help you through this.
Thanks Kita for all your help.
Dallas
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