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WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

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Navigation<br />

Developing Sites and Pages 29<br />

In <strong>WebPlus</strong>, adding navigation between your web pages is easy with navigation<br />

bars, each pre-programmed to understand your site structure, making it easy to<br />

design a site that's simple to navigate. You simply select one from the Web<br />

Objects toolbar and <strong>WebPlus</strong> does the rest!<br />

For example, here's a navigation bar we selected for the site shown in the main<br />

tree above. The buttons provide links to the Home and section menu pages (all at<br />

Level 1) and popup menus that link to child pages (Level 2 in this case).<br />

For more information, see Adding navigation bars on p. 41.<br />

Understanding pages and master pages<br />

Pages are the basic unit of web design. <strong>WebPlus</strong> lets you structure your site's<br />

content by arranging pages into a branching "tree," which in turn helps visitors<br />

navigate through the site. Looking at individual pages from a design standpoint,<br />

each <strong>WebPlus</strong> page has a "foreground" page and a "background" master page.<br />

Master pages are part of the structure of your <strong>WebPlus</strong> site, and provide a<br />

flexible way to store background elements that you would like to appear on<br />

more than one page—for example a logo, background, border design, or<br />

navigation bar. The key concept here is that a particular master page is typically

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