Current Navigation

Posted by Becky on Oct 21, 02:01 AM

Since my current navigation made its debut a few days ago a few people have e-mailed me to ask me how to do it. So I present to you: The Quick’n‘Easy Guide to Keeping Your Navigation Links Current (or how Becky ripped off other people’s methods for her own gain).

Method 1 – Wordpress: Wordpress actually has this feature built-in. WP-List-Pages

Method 2 – PHP: Jem’s Trendy Active CSS Tabs or Matt’s Intelligent Menu’s. I’ve personally had middling success with PHP on a manually maintained site and little success with it on Textpattern.

Method 3 – Textpattern: You can either muck around with multiple templates, which is bloated and unnecessary, or you can use this method. If you choose to use the multiple templates then you’ll need to read how do I use a different page layout for each section?

Method 4 – Manually Maintained Sites: Use Hicksdesigns method to highlighting current page with CSS

Keep Reading: Keeping a ‘current state’ on navigation, Keeping Navigation Current With PHP, EasyNav, Setting the Current Menu State with CSS

Jenny

October 21, 2006

I just use if and else. :-/

*chanel.

October 21, 2006

Did you learn all of these things through trial and erro or by picking up tips from various tutorial sites? I’m interested in broadening my html/css/php skills.

Becky

October 21, 2006

A little bit of both actually. When I first started out I didn’t really know anything about cross browser compatibility (I didn’t even know that there was more than one browser!) and I didn’t even care until I switched over to Firefox. That was when I realised that I was a dink, so I read through the W3Schools website a few times and then moved on to a few different sites. The rest was learned through trial and error and just getting my hands dirty. You can find a bunch of good links on RiaB which is due for a relaunch very shortly :)

jr

October 27, 2006

The navigation works really well

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