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Re: websites issues and referral to additional list?
Subject:Re: websites issues and referral to additional list? From:voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Evelyn Lee Barney <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net> Date:Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:16:29 -0500
If I recall correctly, you want "parent" instead of "blank" to open the new
page in the current window. I also think that leaving that option out
completely defaults to the current window (it's been a while since I've
coded any Javascript).
Can't help you with the rest of it.
-Wendy
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Evelyn Lee Barney <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net>wrote:
>
>
> It's interesting how life evolves. It seems my career is taking me into
> ever more web development, primarily of the "interactive for education"
> type.
>
> Like many web-dev types, most of my hands on skill is self taught. I
> use Dreamweaver CS3 for the most part, with some plain text editing.
>
> Here are some client complaints about the sight I'm working on now:
>
> 1) There is an accordion-style menu. I used what Adobe calls "spry
> assets" to make it, and spry creates javascript - which I'm not fluent
> in. If you are not familiar with accordion-style menus, Each tab
> scrolls (accordions) open to reveal a text pane that holds the links
> for the tab topic. On the page in question, when a viewer opens a tab
> that is not the top tab - and navigates to a page under that tab, the
> new page shows the top tab open (there must be some default setting
> here) not the tab related to the topic.
>
> 2) They say: --Double clicking, or a subsequent later click, on a link
> that opens a separate new window, unexpectedly opens TWO identical
> windows. Second and subsequent clicks on any link should open the
> window that's already open, not a new window.
>
> I used the "_blank" setting for this, is there a better one?
>
> /*Last*/ - does anyone know of a listserv, forum,.or other interactive
> resource that could be helpful to me - specifically for web
> development? I'd like it to have people on it who are using
> Dreamweaver, though not exclusively.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ev
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