I need advice on how to do breadcrumbs in asp classic
I have a company detail page - the thing is it could have been gotten to by a number of ways - through a area or through a list of categories and then companies
I want to show the breadcrumb that this user came to it
(and the same page can be gotten to in many ways)
I tried to build a session variable but if a user clicks the back key then it messed it up
any ideas?
When you design your site you need to work out, in your own mind (best to use a pencil and paper), just how the site links together and which pages can be considered to be related. I know this sounds pretty grey, but this is more a design principal than set in stone.
Word is a good tool to work this out. Flick into Outline View and use this to build up the structure. The arrows on the ribbon at the top left allow you to indent and outdent your structure, and the markers at the beginning of the line allow you to drag and drop sections from one place to another.
Once you're happy about the structure you can update your pages to contain the stepped breadcrumb. Unless you have heavily automated pages that change their structure vastly, or a site that is very fluid (changing it's structure frequently), I would simply hard code the breadcrumb in using an unordered list (<ul>).
It gets more complicated for Classic ASP if you want to be able to automate the breadcrumb. Firstly you'd need to decide what type of automation you want to use; for instance XML, like the .NET version, or a global.asa string/array version, or something that's read from your database... The list goes on.
If you still find it difficult to get around the user's landing page train of thought, try using the search page on a site like the NHS Data Dictionary, or even try navigating using the links on the left. The breadcrumb for this site is in the top banner - watch what happens when you switch between different links.
Hope this helps, but remember there's no right or wrong way to code up your links, it simply depends on the application or site you're creating.
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I have a Wordpress-managed site and I would like to embed a specific part of another website in one of my pages. I have identified the div of the part I'm interested in with Firebug. How can I get it to appear on one of my web pages? Simply using an iframe displays the whole page, but I'd rather have the specific div only.
The webpage I want to fetch the div from is outfitpoints.com
and the particular div is div id="outfitdetails" (the box of details seen on the page). It's this box I'd like to have appear on one of my pages.
I'm the developer of Outfitpoints, so I thought I'd answer with a few options.
Firstly, the data I use comes straight out of the Planetside2 API (census.soe.com), so you could write something that pulls some data yourself straight from the source.
However, yours is not the first request to provide this sort of data in a way people can imbed on their own site, so I will be looking into providing the data in that format in the very near future.
What sort of site are you looking to embed it in (enjin, guildlaunch, vbulletin etc.)? Just so I can test and make sure it works with it.
Also, feel free to give me a shout using the contact method on the site if you want to discuss it more.
I'm just trying to move one of my old php sites to wordpress. As part of the site I have 'top tables' e.g. top 10 cars, listing their features etc. At the moment that all comes from a database and the HTML is generated from the data.
So if a car soon gets a hybrid engine I just check that in the database and my web site table updates to reflect that.
This all works fine. I just don't know where to start when trying to implement something like this in wordpress. I want to keep the WP header, footer, nav... and put my table in to the content area.
Someone recommended simply copying the current generated HTML in to a new post and editing the HTML when anything changes, this sounds like a quick solution but there must be a better way of doing this.
Ideally I would want to keep my current data input pages (and separate database) for all of this 'table data' and present the out put as a post.
If anyone can point me in the right direction (key words I should search for, a guide) that would be great.
Depending on your usecase, you'll usually want to use a static page template:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
Or shortcodes:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
I built a website that allows a user to create event pages with schedules etc... But now I want to give more options which can be used to build more of a minisite or microsite. So along with the usual options of adding a gallery, description etc.. I want them to be able to add a sub menu, and a custom background. I think the background is easy. However, for the submenu I don't really want to give access to the menu options. I would like to still use nice menu though.
I would love some suggestions as to the best way of adding these features while making it really intuitive for the users. Something like a Microsite node that allows everything to be set on one page perhaps?
Have you looked at Open Atrium? http://openatrium.com/
This is a Drupal distribution that lets you create microsites.
I created a "View"* in Drupal to grab all the content and essentially make a site map, but I realized that it doesn't have an option to grab content from the Blocks I have created. Does anyone have an idea if I can even do that?
If not, should I essentially make each block a page so that it can crawl through the pages? I worry that this will end up becoming unmanageable in the end... What are some other options/work arounds? My end goal is to make a site map - maybe I am making this too complicated?
*To make my view I did:
Administration->Structure->Views->Add. Then I made it a page, called it "site-index", and made it "show Content of type All" (with tagged field empty). Then I chose "Content: Title" for my Fields and my Filter Criteria is set as: "Content: Published (Yes):" - That way, it will grab the titles of my web pages.
Thanks, and please reply if further clarification is needed!
Apologies if I'm wrong but I think there might be a bit of confusion over terminology here. In the context of a view Content means nodes, not all HTML content on the site. Your view will return a list of all published nodes, which are essentially the pages on your site.
On a normal sitemap (if there is such a thing) you would only link to full pages, not to parts of pages like a block, they are essentially used to provide a hierarchical overview of your site to aid navigation for users and, probably more importantly these days, search engines (you can submit an XML sitemap to the major search engines instead of this but that's really for another question).
Rather than doing this yourself I'd actually recommend you download and install the Sitemap module which will do all of the work for you, as well as arranging the content in their respective hierarchy.
i am try to build a web site, it has a 2 level menu.
global|asia|euro|u.s (this is locaion menu)
about|home|news (this is content menu)
if a web site user clicks on global, it will show global|home page, if
the user clicks euro , it will show euro|home page, clicks on u.s it shows u.s|home page.
global|home , euro|home, u.s|home, all 3 have same format but different content.
for global|about, euro|about, u.s|about, if a user clicks on global , then clicks on about, it shows global|about page, clicks on euro, then clicks on about, it shows euro|about page, etc.
page content is different , but format same.
all things (items, nodes) in this web site have a location taxonomy attached to it.
for example, for home page,we have to show a picture, the picture has location attached to it.
so , when a user click on euro|home, the picture should comes from euro location , for asia|home, the picture should comes from asia location.
My question is, in drupal 6, how to organize my menu, taxonomy, views, pages to achieve the result.
A way to look at this problem would be to think of this as a multi lingual site. You have different languages:
global
asia
euro
u.s
Even if all the actual text is written in english, you can setup your site as though the languages are different. You can make different versions of english, so all the other text doesn't get translated to other languages. What's smart about this, is that you can translate your nodes, like the about page, and Drupal would show the one from your active language. This would be one way of fixing this, and clicking the different regions, would just change the language.
Another way to do this, would be to use taxonomy. Some of the things, like the menu system would be a bit more different to fix. There would be different solutions to solving your problem this way. In some ways, it would be more simple than making your site multi lingual. I think the easiest way would be to make a 4 different menus, one for each menu. Then you could make some logic in your template, that fx looked at the args, or looked at the taxonomy term you had associated to the node being displayed, and based on that, you would display the different menus. It would require much more coding, to get it to do what you want, and it's not exactly an ideal solution, but would make your site less complex.
Another way to solve this problem, could be using sub menus. So you made children to each region in your main menu. Then you could simply show the menu of the active one. This would probably be the easiest and most simple solution to your problem. Most of it, would be purely styling that would be needed to make it work like you wan to. There might be some issues making the right menu show all the time, but depending on how complex your site are, this shouldn't be a big deal.
These are 3 ways to solve your problem, each has it pros and cons, and the best is very much dependent on the nature of your site.