Site Structure - Other
Home Page
This group of controls concerns your web site's home page.
/ Caption
Edit this to change the text shown for the link to your home page, in a navigation link bar (a menu). Default text is "Home".
/ URL
This shows the URL (Universal Resource Locator) for your home page. Actually, it just shows the part of the URL that comes after your domain name. So if your domain is "www.yourdomainname.com", then a URL of "http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.htm" would show here simply as "index.htm".
/ Re-Assign
Click this button to drop the current assignment of home page. You will then be able to pick home page again, as described at Site Structure - Home Page.
Add Children
...TBD
Open Page in EW
Whichever page is currently highlighted in the Site Structure is opened in Expression Web. TMS-SiteNav will still be in front of the EW window, so you may need to rearrange your screen to see that opened page. Or you can click anywhere in EW, bringing it to the front. Then you can click on the TMS-SiteNav toolbar button again to bring TMS-SiteNav to the front.
Page URL
This shows the URL (Universal Resource Locator) for the currently selected page. Actually, it just shows the part of the URL that comes after the domain name. So THIS page, whose url is "http://www.toolmakersteve.com/TMS-SiteNav/uguide-site-other.htm" would show here simply as "TMS-SiteNav/uguide-site-other.htm".
Options >>>
Click this to reveal some controls that fine-tune the appearance of the link bars that are derived from the site structure.
BUG TBD?? NOTE: Because of page caching within both Expression Web and Internet Explorer, after changing one of these options, and clicking "Apply" or "Done" to make it take effect, it may be necessary to close ALL EW windows and ALL IE windows, then re-start EW, before EW's "Preview In Browser" will show the change!
/ Show Bread Crumbs
If this option is checked, then a "bread crumb trail" is included as part of each link bar.
"Bread crumbs" are a navigation technique that helps a visitor see (and get to) each level of your site structure. The term refers to the trail of bread crumbs that Hansel and Gretel left behind so that they could find their way out of the woods. For instance consider the following bread crumbs (taken from the top of this page):
This tells us we are on a page within a subsection "SiteStruct", that is within a section "TMS-SiteNav", reached from a Home Page "Home".
The traditional presentation of bread crumbs places them on a separate line. In Expression Web, the row of tags starting with <body> is an example of this.
TMS-SiteNav does something novel with bread crumbs -- it includes them as part of the link bar. This compact presentation is useful for sites that don't go too deep. [FUTURE VERSION: Could be an option to have these on a separate line.]
NOTE: All the links after the final right-pointing-triangle are pages in the current section. (On your site's Home Page, each of those links is a main page of a section.)
/ Show Section Heads
If this option is checked, then each site-structure link bar will have two rows. The top row contains one link per section. The second row links to each page in the current section. Here is how this page would look with this option checked:
And here is how this page's navigation would look with BOTH bread crumbs and section heads:
Apply/Done/Cancel Buttons
Common to each tab page. Details here.