ToolmakerSteve’s SiteNav (for Microsoft® Expression® Web)

Introduction

ToolmakerSteve’s SiteNav makes it easy to build the navigation elements of your website. A visitor to your website navigates (browses) between the pages of your website by clicking on buttons (or links) arranged in a row or column. This group of links is referred to as a Link Bar.

Examples of Link Bars:

 

While SiteNav lets you build Link Bars directly, it also provides a powerful alternative:

You can drag-and-drop build a tree representing the structure of your site. That is, you might divide your site into several sections. The pages of each section are to be closely linked together. TS SiteNav generates for you the different link bars to use in each section of the site. As you make changes to your site structure, those link bars are automatically changed as well.

Tree view of site structure:

Each page's link bar is automatically given links based on its location in the site structure:

 

ToolmakerSteve’s SiteNav

Table of Contents

Install - download & installation instructions.

Toolbar - description of the TMS-SiteNav toolbar within Expression Web.

SiteStruct - features for building a tree representing the desired structure of your web site.

Sections, Adding Pages, Rearranging Pages, Other

Styling - picking a style, and modifying the appearance of link bars. (Viewer)

Shared Styling Controls (Style Templates, Link States, Menu Orientation, Style Properties)

Insert - inserting a navigation link bar into a web page.

Using TMS-SiteNav with EW's Dynamic Web Templates or Master Pages

Custom - creating a link bar with arbitrary links (rather than links determined by the site structure).