My son and I volunteered to create a website for a hearing charity (www.hearingconcernlink.org) using Freeway Express - our first proper website. It has gone pretty well for beginners, but we have just hit a snag. CAF, which handles online donations, has now changed the nature of their link, and it demands the use of a defined button rather than an area as we have designed it.
I have worked out how to set it all up by linking to a new page, but as the HTML coding requires an image for the button to be downloaded, there is nothing there on the editing page for me to position. I can have it in the extreme top left of the page, or the extreme bottom left by choosing the different options within HTML markup, but how can I add to the code to position it elsewhere? (ideally in the centre towards the bottom of a 600 pixel high window). I only know the rudiments of HTML, and as the switchover to this new system is imminent, the pressure is on!
You can add an HTML Markup Item by selecting Insert > Markup Item.
This will give you a dialog box to enter the code for your button, and
will create a box on your page that you can size and position
appropriately.
(I’m understanding the situation as CAF is providing you with a
snippet of code for the new buttons; please let me know if this is not
the case).
~Katie
On Apr 29, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Graham wrote:
My son and I volunteered to create a website for a hearing charity (www.hearingconcernlink.org
) using Freeway Express - our first proper website. It has gone
pretty well for beginners, but we have just hit a snag. CAF, which
handles online donations, has now changed the nature of their link,
and it demands the use of a defined button rather than an area as we
have designed it.
I have worked out how to set it all up by linking to a new page, but
as the HTML coding requires an image for the button to be
downloaded, there is nothing there on the editing page for me to
position. I can have it in the extreme top left of the page, or the
extreme bottom left by choosing the different options within HTML
markup, but how can I add to the code to position it elsewhere?
(ideally in the centre towards the bottom of a 600 pixel high
window). I only know the rudiments of HTML, and as the switchover to
this new system is imminent, the pressure is on!
Thanks Katie. I’m sorry that I wasn’t clear enough - my foggy brain!
Yes, CAF did provide me with code - it uses a downloaded image for a button that has “hidden” coding behing it to take it to a suitable and secure donation page on their site. I have inserted the code using the HTML markup into a new page, but no matter where I choose to insert it (before body etc.) it only ends up in one of those two places (extreme top or bottom) when I preview it, and always on the far left. As it doesn’t download the button image until I preview the page, there isn’t anything visible in editing mode to move about.
I know how to change the look of the button, but I don’t know how to place it. If you can help, I’d be very grateful - I don’t really want to cram in all that HTML learning! Lazy I know, but I’ve got to the age where learning yet another programming language chills my brain cells.
The HTML Markup and Markup Item work differently; Page > HTML Markup
(which is what I think you are currently using based on the result you
get) is going to simply insert the code as you’ve seen, but if you
instead pick Insert > Markup Item, it will actually create an HTML box
on your page that you can size and position the same way as if you had
created a button or HTML element. The Markup Item dialog box does not
have a menu asking where to place it (the “before </body” etc part)
because it will allow you to move the box.
~Katie
On Apr 29, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Graham wrote:
Thanks Katie. I’m sorry that I wasn’t clear enough - my foggy brain!
Yes, CAF did provide me with code - it uses a downloaded image for a
button that has “hidden” coding behing it to take it to a suitable
and secure donation page on their site. I have inserted the code
using the HTML markup into a new page, but no matter where I choose
to insert it (before body etc.) it only ends up in one of those two
places (extreme top or bottom) when I preview it, and always on the
far left. As it doesn’t download the button image until I preview
the page, there isn’t anything visible in editing mode to move about.
I know how to change the look of the button, but I don’t know how to
place it. If you can help, I’d be very grateful - I don’t really
want to cram in all that HTML learning! Lazy I know, but I’ve got to
the age where learning yet another programming language chills my
brain cells.
OK, I am now officially a very grateful plonker. It is exactly what you told me in the first place, I just didn’t read it correctly. The ironic thing is that I am a retired maths teacher and I help a couple of students with their A-level revision at the moment. I keep nagging them to read the questions really carefully because they keep missing bits of information. Wait 'til I tell them what an idiot I have been!