Link bar access to secured page

[jw4ucla]

I have a FrontPage website that has a vertical link bar on the left side. I've created the link bar based on the navigation structure, with one exception: I can't include the one and only page I have security on (a username and password are required to access this page).

I want to be able to include this secured page in the link bar but when I do, simply accessing the home page brings up the security window before that item on the link bar will appear.

How can I stop this?

 

[tinaalice]

Make another page that is not protected and use that in the nav bar and link the protected page to this other page .. on this other page put a link to the protected page or just put a refresh code on it so it goes immediately to the protected page.

btw, You would have greater control with includes and text menu.

hth Tina

http://accessfp.net/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frontpage/

http://addonfp.com/

http://frontpage-tips.com

 

[jw4ucla]

What did you mean in your last sentence "You would have greater control with includes and text menu."?

Thanks.

 

[tinaalice]

NOTE to admin: I've written this reply once already.. I pressed enter to go to the next line I think and the page refreshed ... this really should not happen on a forum very flustrating ... I'm writing replies in notepad first from now on... grrrr.

With shared borders and nav bot your restricted to the postioning of the shared borders which are top right left bottom, and depending on the width of the links unless you use a table or div to expand the shared border your stuck as to width as well. Large sites with shared borders make the site slow down quite a bit, and when publishing. If you don't remember to PUBLISH the site you lose the navigation pane layout. It's quite easy to turn off a border by mistake globally and wipe your set layout. The nav bot can only be set so many ways your restricted as to what menus you want to display throughout the pages of a site.

With includes you can put them anywhere and contain them within a table or div if you wish you can even put an include into an include... (use them not only for menus) with a text based navigation you can intricate menus (see

http://accessfp.net/

or

http://addonfp.com

- adddonfp is done with CSS - DWT (dynamic web template) and Includes for the menu accessfp just uses includes for the menu - I'm in the processes of redoing the site it's way out of date, but it's a very large site, when i update any part of the menu it's pretty easy to just update a couple of pages and the whole site is done.. the larger the site the more intricate the menu the more control you want, with the nav bot this depth of control is impossible) as you move from page to page using the menu you can see how under each of the categories the full menu for that categorie appears ... but the full menu for other categories does not appear till you visit those pages... all you do is make include pages for those sections .. with a large site this is very easy to control and updating takes very little time ... your visitor is able to access all the pages of a sites main categories but also surf to all the pages under each catgory depending on which category one is viewing. Here is a tutorial on FrontPage Includes

http://anyfrontpage.com/ezine/va/frontpage-includes.htm

By using a text based menu which I've done by hand instead of using either a nav bot or a scripted menu (ie javascript) my menu meets accessibility, useability and more important maintainance standards that are helpful to all.

hope this helps

Tina

http://accessfp.net/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frontpage/

http://addonfp.com/

http://frontpage-tips.com