[Pro] Carousel and Anchors problem

Hello everyone,

I’m new to this forum and freeway 5.4 as well, so please bear with me. This is the website I’m working on; http://rgcreative.com/WFtest/index.html
maybe any of you guys or Walter can help. Here is the issue:

  1. On the Home page (bottom section titles) I am using rollovers to navigate to other pages and specifically to anchors created on top of carousel panes. The Problem is that some of the linked anchors work (markets,solutions,partnerships sections) and some not (about us,client care, contact sections). If you take a look at the website you’ll know what I’m talking about.

  2. When a link from home page is clicked (to anchor title) the top part of the linked page is scrolled/cropped. I want the top part and logo to show all the time. Is there a way to fix this?

  3. I followed Walter’s instructions on creating a Tab indicator; however I get this message - this can only be applied to text items- when creating the .active
    style. For sure I’m doing something wrong but I don’t know what, so if anyone has a suggestion I’ll appreciate it.

I hope you guys understand if I asked too many questions but I really need help with this. Thank you very much for your help.


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Hmmm! - I did reply to this but it hasn’t appeared!

1 & 2 - Which item(s) have the links to your anchors. Is it the section headers?

3 - A Tag style like this is NOT actually applied to anything. You do NOT click your Tab and try to apply it.

A style made in this manner does not need to be applied to anything — and really shouldn’t, because it can make for some really strange effects. This sort of no-name style will always publish to the head of every page, or to the external stylesheet if you’re using those. Unlike styles that you click to apply in the design interface, you will not see their effects in the design view, and Freeway will not “prune” unused styles to save a few bytes. You will see the effect of the style in the Preview, or if you preview in a browser.

David


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As to the other part about you wanting to link to anchors in/on your Carousel Panes this is the accepted method - not actually creating an Anchor

You only need to create an anchor link to the pane, using the ID of that pane as the anchor URI. So if the pane you want to move to using your text link is called item4, you would highlight your link text, open the Hyperlink dialog, move to the External side of things, and enter #item4 as the entire link.

And similarly if it was on a different page then the link would be yoursite.com/yourpage.html#item4

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If you want to link to a Carousel pane from another page, don’t use anchors, use a querystring and the id of the pane. So if your pane has the id pane3, you make a manual link to

yourpage.html?pane3

The page will load, then the carousel will animate to the selected pane.

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Hi Walter

Why the preference for the querystring? As opposed to the anchor type link that you have previously advocated.

yourpage.html#item4

David


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The anchor doesn’t engage the animation, and for some layouts,
actually makes thing look bad because it scrolls the page to show the
target anchor id. Using the querystring is something that I added to
glider.js so that it would pick up the target from the inbound link,
load the page at the top, then glide the carousel to reveal the target.

Walter

On Dec 2, 2010, at 8:27 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

Hi Walter

Why the preference for the querystring? As opposed to the anchor
type link that you have previously advocated.

yourpage.html#item4

David


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Thanks once again for that clarification Walter.

So to reiterate:

Whilst adding the the #link works - glider.js has been rewritten so that the carousel correctly responds to a querystring link such as

 yourpage.html?item4

and provides a much smoother effect.

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Precisely. If you use “vanilla” Lightwindow2, you don’t get this
effect. There’s a stub in that code to hook the incoming URI and
extract a carousel target, but I couldn’t get it to work in modern
browsers (recall, Lightwindow stopped development at least two years
ago) so I did the other thing.

Walter

On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:40 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

Thanks once again for that clarification Walter.

So to reiterate:

Whilst adding the the #link works - glider.js has been rewritten so
that the carousel correctly responds to a querystring link such as

yourpage.html?item4

and provides a much smoother effect.

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thanks David and Walter,

1 &2. David, the subheadings i.e (approach,project management, managed services,etc…) have the links;however, I’m trying to figure out your suggestion when you mention "So if the pane you want to move to using your text link is called item4, you would highlight your link text, open the Hyperlink dialog, move to the External side of things, and enter #item4 as the entire link.

And similarly if it was on a different page then the link would be yoursite.com/yourpage.html#item4"

Now, when I create the link the Edit hyperlink window, What do I pick for the PROTOCOL drop down menu? Also, should I pick TARGET -top,parent,self?

Walter: could you be so kind and provide a step by step on the querystring because I’m confused on how to create it? In Freeway do I have to select the item, link it to page and then create another link- in this case the querystring? Can this type of links be locally previewed or on server?

In addition, I’m curious as to how some of the anchors I’ve created previously work and some don’t. Is this some sort of a bug?

thank very much for your rapid response and support.

best regards.


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when I create the link the Edit hyperlink window

Simply choose the External Tab, Protocol:Other and type in

http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html?item4

Without the opening and closing <>

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Thanks David,

I’ll give it a try.


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