Internal Page (Links & Anchors)

I have a long page that will need to be scrolled. There are a series of questions (at the top of the page) that need to be linked to the corresponding answers going down to the bottom of the page. I tried creating an ANCHOR say at the bottom of the page (answer) then created a LINK to the corresponding Question at the top of the page. Then, linked to that named anchor. Nothing happens. The site is set to HTML 4.01 Transitional. This shouldn’t be this hard… You click on a Question LINK and it should take you to the corresponding Answer Anchor right? What am I missing here? Thanks! Rich


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How did you make the link to the anchor? Did you highlight the link text, click on the little globe icon in the bottom of the page, and then choose the anchor by name from the list? If so, then that should Just Work™.

To get back to the top, create an anchor at the top of the page, and create a “Back to top” link next to each answer. After you make the first one, copy and paste to all other locations.

Walter

On Jun 5, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Reesche wrote:

I have a long page that will need to be scrolled. There are a series of questions (at the top of the page) that need to be linked to the corresponding answers going down to the bottom of the page. I tried creating an ANCHOR say at the bottom of the page (answer) then created a LINK to the corresponding Question at the top of the page. Then, linked to that named anchor. Nothing happens. The site is set to HTML 4.01 Transitional. This shouldn’t be this hard… You click on a Question LINK and it should take you to the corresponding Answer Anchor right? What am I missing here? Thanks! Rich


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I am using “graphic tool” for both the Link and the anchor. I set the Question to be a Link and the answer to be the anchor. Is that correct?


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That should work, although you should not use graphics for text at any time – Google will hate you very much forever if you do.

Try this, just to convince yourself that it will work:

  1. Draw a single HTML box to contain both the questions and the answers. Double-click inside it so you have a text cursor.
  2. Type the questions, each followed by a paragraph return.
  3. Then type the answers, again one paragraph per answer.
  4. Highlight the first word of each answer, and choose Edit / Anchor. Give it a unique name (make sure this name begins with a letter, not a number or any punctuation symbol, and contains no spaces or punctuation except for the underscore).
  5. Repeat for each answer.
  6. Scroll back up to your questions, highlight each question one at a time and use the “globe” menu to choose the appropriate anchor from the popup list.

Preview in a browser. You should be able to click from each question to its related anchor. It should just work.

Walter

On Jun 5, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Reesche wrote:

I am using “graphic tool” for both the Link and the anchor. I set the Question to be a Link and the answer to be the anchor. Is that correct?


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So Walter… Can you link a Graphic box to another Graphic box on the same page? Appreciate you input! RIch


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Hi Walter,

I’m also looking for something like this, but then you see only a part of the answers and then when you click on that part of the answer the full answer will pop up.

See example:

http://www.urntotaal.nl/helpdesk

when you click on the part of the answer:

Discreet geleverd op uw adres: leest u verder…

the full answer will pop up.

possible to do in freeway pro?

regards,

Ronald


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take a look at scripty accordion - you can make it so if you click on a heading, body copy will be revealed

http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/110-scriptyaccordion


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Ok Walter… I imported my text into an HTML box and re-formatted everything. I selected ANSWER #15 at the bottom of the document and named it as "P15 and made it the anchor, then selected question #15 (at the TOP of the document and made it the link) Command-K and chose my P15 anchor. Tried it in 2 browsers and it showed it was a link but didn’t take me to the bottom of the document where the P15 Anchor is. Again, this document is set up as HTML 4.01 Transitional… is this the problem? Rich


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Please post a link to the page, I can’t tell what the issue is from here. Anchors have worked since HTML 2 or so. It’s definitely not the HTML level.

Walter

On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Reesche wrote:

Ok Walter… I imported my text into an HTML box and re-formatted everything. I selected ANSWER #15 at the bottom of the document and named it as "P15 and made it the anchor, then selected question #15 (at the TOP of the document and made it the link) Command-K and chose my P15 anchor. Tried it in 2 browsers and it showed it was a link but didn’t take me to the bottom of the document where the P15 Anchor is. Again, this document is set up as HTML 4.01 Transitional… is this the problem? Rich


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Not sure what you mean. I have not uploaded to a host yet. Any way I can send you attachments? Rich


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No, you need to post it to a server somewhere. If you have a Web site somewhere, use an FTP application to make a new folder in that site’s root folder, and upload your page there.

Walter

On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Reesche wrote:

Not sure what you mean. I have not uploaded to a host yet. Any way I can send you attachments? Rich


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Ok Walt… here is the URL for the Page from hell.

http://www.cardioinstitute.com/faq's.html

The Questions are in RED at the top and the answers flow down below them. There are (5) Q&A’s.

I can not figure out WHY this is not working! It makes sense creating a Graphic box for the Answers/Acors and Linking them to the Questions/Links.

Rich


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I’m far, far from an expert, but I do know that when I used that accordion action with straight HTML text rather than graphic text, it worked brilliantly. And it looked the same. Why use graphic text if you don’t have to?


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This is broken on so many different levels.

  1. You’re using graphic text. (Google cannot index it, blind people cannot have it read aloud to them. This is fundamentally wrong.)
  2. The links are link maps (because you linked to a line of graphic text within a larger box). Link maps do not work like regular hyperlinks do.
  3. The anchors are all empty A tags in the top-left corner of the one massive graphic containing all of the text. Your anchors are working the way they are supposed to, just not the way you want.

Since you are in Freeway, and graphic text is editable and as easy to work with as other forms of text, do yourself a favor right now. First, double-click into the one massive graphic text box and select all. Copy. On the pasteboard or somewhere else on the page, draw an HTML box, double-click into it for a text cursor, and choose Paste and Match Style from the Edit menu. This will strip all formatting from the text, which is critically important.

Looking at this page, it appears as though you have used graphic text so that your headers can be centered and bold and not double-spaced away from the paragraph they attend to. This is all do-able in Freeway in normal HTML text.

Create a new style in the Edit Style dialog. Set the Align to center, Space After to 0, and click the Bold button. Name this style something memorable. Now create another style for your regular paragraphs. Make sure that you apply some paragraph style attributes to it, so it becomes a ¶ style. Space After is innocuous enough.

Double-click into your HTML box and select all. Apply your regular paragraph style. Now triple-click each header and apply your header style to each one. This should get rid of the apparent double-space after each header, and center them and snug them together with their child paragraphs.

Looking at the rest of the text, you can create the three-column effect for the locations by inserting an inline table in the run of text after the paragraph about hours and locations. Bulleted lists can also be center-aligned, also not a problem in HTML text. Select those lines of text (remove the bullets you manually applied first) and then click open the List segment of the Inspector. Click the right arrow in the Inspector, and you’ll have a list. Click the center-align button and you’ll have a center-aligned list.

Now at the top of the page, just highlight all of that text, apply your centered header style.

You can set a red color and no underline for links, and get the rest of the style. Click elsewhere, so your HTML text is no longer selected. Then click once on the HTML box and look in the Style tab of the Inspector. In the Links segment, set the color to red and un-click the underline button (this is fairly difficult to see on the button itself, so it’s best to try it on some actual link text so you can get good feedback).

Now go back to my original message and follow those steps. It is critical that you select some or all of the text in the header above each answer when you define the anchor. The links are simple and self-explanatory.

Once you do this in HTML, and see how sharp and perfect the text is and how well it works, you won’t want to ever go back. And my friend Beverly will think much better of you.*

Walter

*Beverly has end-stage wet macular degeneration. She’s lights out in one eye, and light perception in the other. She loves the Web, and listens to it all the time.

On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Reesche wrote:

Ok Walt… here is the URL for the Page from hell.

http://www.cardioinstitute.com/faq's.html

The Questions are in RED at the top and the answers flow down below them. There are (5) Q&A’s.

I can not figure out WHY this is not working! It makes sense creating a Graphic box for the Answers/Acors and Linking them to the Questions/Links.

Rich


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And there is no apostrophe in FAQ’s

Plural of FAQ is FAQs

Plural of DVD is not DVD’s

David - On his high horse.


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@ Ronald Botman

Yes, this is possible in Freeway Pro.


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Good to hear. Any info how? Can I find it on your website?


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On 7 Jun 2013, at 01:13, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:

And there is no apostrophe in FAQ’s

Plural of FAQ is FAQs

Dave’s right; also, as ‘FAQ’ stands for ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, the plural is built-in, so it should just be ‘FAQ’ rather than 'FAQs"

best wishes,

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as ‘FAQ’ stands for ‘Frequently Asked Questions’

I was trying to find a definitive answer on that one and struggled.

There is evidence that ‘FAQ’ stands for ‘Frequently Asked Question’ but has general acceptability as ‘Questions’

The point being that there should not be an apostrophe either way.

D


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