Indexhibit^TM
Index + Exhibit

hey indexhibit,
i have a problem setting up my indexhibit-site specificly the startsite www.nactus.dk ::
i have put in exhibition name ( nactus.dk ) in Exhibits: Settings,
but what i see on the startsite is identical to one of the exhibits of one of the sections ( info/the guide ) in the menu, wonder why ? and see allso, that i can not delite that same ( info/the guide ),i want to keep it , but in trying to take it away from the starting site, i have tryed everything...
please help me ( am not a code-specialist, so if you can use plain language ).
many thanks in advance

I think I kind of understand what your asking. If I'm right, then and lot of people have had this "problem" whilst they first using Indexhibit.

Your 'about this site' page is technically your home page

Try visiting your homepage (http://www.nactus.dk/) then your about page (http://www.nactus.dk/index.php?/about_this_site).

The biggest mistake a lot of people make is trying to delete the 'about this site' page. BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGG no-no!

Instead, use it as a homepage and just rename it if you really want.

Now, on to your sites mysterious problem... I am at a bit of a loss as to what you want and what's happening.

I've noticed that your menu link titled 'the guide' links to your homepage (http://www.nactus.dk/, view source in your browser for proof), and I have almost no idea how you achieved that without manually editing your SQL database (which is where your document contents is stored and would be the way to check what the problem really is).

Let us know if the above made some (if any) sense, and try to clarify/explain what it is you think you did, and what you want us to help you do.

Peace!

Woops...you can delete the about this site page...but you can not delete the main page (Leslie simply got it backwards).

The main page is the main page...people often name it something else and then want a new main page...but...you can't. Becausssssssssssssssssse...the main page is and will always be the main page so fill it up with your main page content.

Thanks Leslie too

;)

Oops! My bad, haha. Thanks for clearing that up Vaska.

hey both
yes, i am sorry my english plus html-problems, is not easy to read, but very much appreciate you are trying to help :-)

okey, if turn advance off on the main-settings, i get back the code with "about this site", but it does not seem to fix it.
question : then should i reload the whole folder from indexhibit, do i loos all or will i fix any SQL database problems by doing so... ?

what do you recomment i do from here ?

ups, loose all not loos :)

Hi Nactus,

let me see if I got it right: Your "Main-Page" is the first page that is called (see Vaskas post). Usually it is hidden (see exhbition settings) so it doesn´t appear in the menu, but on the right in content area when someone calls www.nactus.dk

Now: The title of your site that is shown in the browsers title is built from the exhibition name of the main-page plus ":" plus the Exhibition name in the settings.
Your "main-page" right now seems to be called "the guide". You could better call it something like "Welcome to".

So you could go ahead like this:
1. Rename "the Guide" to "welcome to"
2. Hide it

Maybe this helps out,

Cheers.

it did help :-D
thank you so much

just for the future... if i want to alter margins or font or such which css style do i look for ?

ciao

It´s this one:
http://www.nactus.dk/ndxz-studio/site/sample/style.css

Plus there are some dynamic css settings in each template that override the settings in the style.css.

Stefan.

thanks ever so !

last bit is the logo wantet it where [under construction] is at the moment
tryed to put it in the file/sample-folder and then write the url in the pre-nav-text
BUT then the main page goes ga ga again ? then i tryed to upload the logo as a image in a hidden exhibition, but does not work either....
i wish i could make 3 collums: 1 with logo 2 with menu 3 with contents
that would be cool
then i would be ready to launch
any thoughts on this final matter ?

- and again, really nice with all the swift help here at the Forum :)

Put some code like this in the Pre-Nav TextBox

1. <a href="http://www.nactus.dk"><img src='http://www.nactus.dk/files/mylogo.gif' width='150' height='150'/></a>

Then, save the image in the ./files folder.
If you want three "columns" your #menu div should have a larger margin that suits the width of your logo, then set the left margin of your #content to the width of log+menu.

By the way, if you want the "logo-column" to have the same background like the menu, you could wrap it in a div, and then give it a background color.

Got it? Post back if it works, good luck.

hey snoep

i got the logo in as you instructed !
but the 3 columns, no.
I'v changed the values of #menu and #content as you descibe - maby what i try was not clear.... i want ( from the left ) logo, then column next to that with menu, then column next to that with content - horizontal ! not logo on top of menu like now. do you think thats possible ??

- bedst regards

ah, ok. i am sorry. i didn´t take into account, that the logo is within the menu-div. hold on, it is something about floating, i will check this ...

btw: what is sboe in denmark: these are my initial, funny!

all right: one possible solution could be:

add this to your style.css, instead of the rubbish (oops!) that i told you before.

1. #menu p { float: left; }

this lets your navigation (which is a unnumerated list -> ul-tag) float to the right of the paragraph (the link to your logo)

maybe this helps, but it is not perfect yet, because as your navigation becomes longer than your logo, it will flow back to the left ... but my only idea at the moment.

... i paste it in, but no effect, is there a specific place to put #menu p { float: left; } ?

... sboe... can be sbø in danish, but it does not mean anything, if you add a g, spøg, it means a joke :-) a kind joke, nok a stupid joke.

hope you have the time to take one more look at it !

ok, i am testing things a bit. sorry, that i am not able to give you THE perfect solution right in the beginning, as i am still learning to ;)

now, another way is this one:

look at your index.php and rearrange the the beginning of the body-tag like this

1. <body class='section-<%section_id%>'>
2. <div id='logo'><%obj_itop%></div>    
3. <div id='menu'>
4. <div class='container'>

this will put the pre-nav area outside of the menu-div.
then you could use the margin settings i described earlier.

1. i.e. in the #menu change this to the width of your logo
2. left: 200px;

allright, puh, sometimes things take a little while with me ... good luck!

i pasted the float-thing underneath the #menu { ... } and it works for me.

- hmmm it moved down the contents... as you can see .?!
the logo and menu still seems to be on the same spot

i sure am learning/testing as i go, as well :)

you could also place the link to your logo directly into your index.php if you do not intend to change it permanently through the backend of indexhibit, because i think the pre-nav area rather should stay in the menu-div.

Then you could use the margin-thing i mentioned first.
Sorry again, for "zig-zag-thinking".

you have got the twice! delete the second one.

1. ah, sorry this twice:
2. <%obj_itop%>

you lost me a bit, please tell me step by step what to do now, if you dont mind

will this make 3 columns ?

dont give up on me

link
'http://www.nactus.dk/files/mylogo.jpg' width='183' height='422'/>

ok, sorry for being confusing:

usually you put the logo into the pre-nav textbox, as you did also. then the logo is placed within the menu-div and can not be styled independently.

1. cut the link from the pre-nav textbox and paste it into the index.php, just below the body-tag. wrap it into a div, like this:

1. <div id='logo'><a href="http://www.nactus.dk"><img src='http://www.nactus.dk/files/mylogo.gif' width='100' height='100'/></a></div>

2. then you could style the logo in the style.css. set left margin of the menu-div to the width of the logo.

before you do so, check your index.php: there seem to be two itop-variables. delete the second one.

ok maybe this helps, hope it works!