Many sites use navigation or link bars as part of the lay out of the site. They are the buttons that appear on all the pages that enable you to navigate around the site without having to go to the top menu each time you want to go to a different section. Because a lot of the school site consists of photographs and the layout is simple I have not used navigation bars as they take up space on the screen.

However in the school brochure document which is extremely long I have used them to hop about in the document as it allows you to put all the section headings on every page. You can use Bookmarking to go to the subject headings but you then need a Go to top of document bookmark next to it. But this did not work as well as a link bar.

Bookmarking is another form of hyper link and is fairly straightforward to use. Highlight the section heading you wish to set up as a bookmark. Go to ‘Insert-Bookmark’ this opens a box enabling you to give the bookmark a name or accept the default. Having given it a name you will see a line of dashes appear under the highlighted words, they do not appear in a browser. Then to put in the hyperlink to the bookmark go to the place in the page where you want to put the link, usually the top. Click on ‘Insert-Hyperlink’ a box opens, on the RH side click on ‘Bookmark’, a list of bookmarks in the document appears, click the one you wish to show, click OK, the link appears.

To have a return to top bookmark use one of the section titles at the top of the page as a bookmark and create a hyperlink to it as above. The size and wording of hyperlinks can be edited in the usual way.

A neater but more complex way of navigating around a long document is by using link bar. This requires that each of the subjects need to be on there own page. With the document file open, highlight the section you wish to add to the site, highlight the section including the heading then copy it. In the website open a new page, paste the copy into it then save it in the appropriate folder remembering no capitals no spaces. Now for the tricky bit getting the page onto the link bar. Look for the task bar just above the open page where the titles of the open pages are displayed, at the LH end is a tab marked Website click on it and then right at the bottom of the screen is a row of buttons click on Navigation. This opens a page that looks like this.

What you see here depends on what has been put there, nothing except the Home page appears automatically. The only time a page needs to appear here is if you want it to appear on a Link bar. Conversely if the page does not appear here it will not appear on the bar. In this application all the section pages are at the same level, you achieve this by dragging the page title from the list on the LH side of the page onto the Navigation page and place it in its proper place. Now click the page tab of the page that you have just created (I told you this was tricky).

The Link bar now has to be created at the top of the page, I have put a line across the top of the page by ‘Insert-horizontal line’. Then ‘Insert-Navigation’ a box opens that looks like this.

The Link bar selection will already selected click on ‘Bar based on Navigation structure’ then click ‘Finish’ not ‘Next’. Another box opens that looks like this.

This box together with the navigation page decides which pages appear in the Link bar, by clicking the radio buttons the little picture changes to reflect your selection. Don’t forget if the page is not on the Navigation page in it’s correct orientation to the other pages it will not work. The image reflects the selection for the site to display the Brochure subject pages which are the only ones on the navigation page and are all set at the same level together with the home page. Click on OK and the pages on the navigation page should appear at the top of the page that you are working on. Save the page, then start the process again by finding the next section of the document that you want to index, copy it, then open a new page etc etc repeat the process for every section. As you build the Navigation page the new pages appear on the other pages automatically. Don’t forget to upload all the new pages.