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Hi,
I stupidly set up a website with spry menu navigation and only tested via firefox locally. When I post my pages nothing works in my navigation bar. I did upload my spry assets folder.

Thanks for your time.

Submitted: 125 days and 20 hours ago.
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Computer OS: Mac OS X
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Posted by Networking101 125 days and 18 hours ago.

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Hi XXXXXXXXXX! Thanks for submitting your question! Just a few questions,

 

1) Were you using Dreamweaver CS3 or CS4 to build the Spry assets?

2) what type of web server have you pushed to, Unix, Linix, or Windows?

3) Does it not work in IE OR Firefox?

4) What is the domain name so I can see??

 

Thanks! Lets see what we can do to get this working for ya!

125 days and 6 hours ago.

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1. Dreamweaver CS3
2. Linux-based operating systems.
3. I anticipate problems with IE but right now it is just my Foxfire.
4. randadesignassociates.com/index.html

I am thinking of redoing the nav bar in home page and hoping I can just paste into each individual page.

Posted by Networking101 125 days and 5 hours ago.

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OK, well, the spry should work just fine on Linix, since it is just Javascripting that is making it work. I know you said you were sure that you pushed up the .js and the .css files with everything else, but did the folder structure stay the same? The assets must be in the spry assets folder as they are locally to work correctly...

 

Just so you can see, there is www.greenwoodelementarypta.com

 

that uses a simple collapsable spry built in CS3 and works just fine in IE and Firefox....maybe you should check with your web host and see if there is an activeX/JS funtionality that must be set up on your site...

125 days and 3 hours ago.

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Well my sprys are even simpler with just the horizontal and some submenus. I think I made the big mistake of trying to use them like library elements. I had a template originally but detached a lot of pages. I thought I could just go back into those and either paste the template navbar or update them Neither thing worked. So I now have a handful of pages that are fine and still attached to a template and a series that are not fine. Not sure how to get my good navbars onto the bad pages. any suggestion?

Posted by Networking101 125 days and 3 hours ago.

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I would reattach to the template....the Spry itself it pretty neat, but if you have it housed in a template to begin with, you cant detach from it, since it links to a .css and a .js file....SOMETIMES you can fix it by reattaching the template to the pages, but that sometimes destroys the code....

 

you best bet would be to recreate the blank page from the template (with the spry that works, ) and copy and paste your custom data from the non working page into the editable region...

 

make sense?

125 days and 3 hours ago.

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I did just this but same old results. The code for the sprys is in the uneditable region (greyed out) same as the actual template but afte copying and pasting the changes it still doesn't work live. I need to fiddle more.

Posted by Networking101 125 days and 2 hours ago.

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Yeah, it dos happen. After breaking the links, your lucky to get them back

125 days ago.

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I can't get any new docs to work with the old spry or the old template. How do people make spry menus to use on every page if not with templates. ANd if with templates it seems very limiting. I had wanted to use 2 general templates with the sam spry menu. Now I can't get anything to work. When I try to create a new spry on a page in the same root folder it looks good until it goes live. ANy ideas?????

Posted by Networking101 125 days ago.

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Yeah, i agree. Spry menus are made to be placed in templates as you "main navigation". IF you decide to create a spry menu on each page, then you cant simply copy/paste the spry menu itself, because it wont take over the .js and the .css files....You have to recreate the Spry menu on every sheet....You had a great idea about making it a library item, but that still drops the .js and .css files...your only way out is to build multiple templates that have different sprys

124 days and 23 hours ago.

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I did try that! I deleted the old spry and just inserted a new one but it didn't seem to pick up any css or js.

I now am wondering if I have to be out of the root folder to do this?

Posted by Networking101 124 days and 23 hours ago.

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Na, if you delete the old spry, you need to remove the spryassets folder manually from the local drive. Then create your new Spry menu which will recreate the spryassets. In CS3, Spry had a long way to go....

124 days and 23 hours ago.

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so i can't even keep the handful of template based pages with there spry assets in tact?

will i have to recreate the good one in the template and recreate new ones on all the other pages?

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Keeping the ones you have (although I know you dont want to hear this!) will eventually break on you when you upload. The best way is to:

 

Recreate template1 wiht the main spry set. This can be used to build other pages. If you want other pages to have ADDITIONAL spry sets, build them inside of the editable region in a new document file....

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