We are interested in adding a left hand navigation area to our boards - where do we put the html for this?

Thanks!

Hi, Valery!

Navigation bars like the one you describe are usually implemented by eve users by way of dividing the page up into multiple table rows and cells using Custom HTML.

You can find your Custom HTML here:

Eve Control Panel > Display > Settings > (Click the "#Edit" icon next to the style you use for your community) > Custom HTML

The table makes a framework, and then the content goes inside of it.

To make a side navigation bar, you'll want create a table row that contains a cell before the eve content (for the bar to live) and then has a cell containing the eve content itself.

You can accomplish it this way:

For the field called "Insert After Opening Body Tag," you'd add this:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
***This is the cell that contains the side nav bar.***
</td>
<td>
***This is the opening of the cell that will contain the eve content. Note that we don't close it.***

That's it for the first part.

Next, we'd add the following in the field called "Insert Before Closing Body Tag":

***Note that the next line closes the cell that contains the eve content****
</td>
</tr>
</table>

That's pretty much it!

Of course, if you already have custom HTML settings for a header, etc, you'll have to work these changes into them.

Thanks Paul! I will give it a try :-)

I just tried it and am doing something wrong - the left side content is long and it pushed the boards down below that - any suggstions?

If you've got everything inserted correctly, it may be that you'll need to add width information or the like.

Can you post a link to the page?

Hi Paul :-)

Well, I finally had some time and have been able to get this to work like a charm!

Now, I needed to add one more thing -- above the eve content section, I need to add something -- how do I do this?

ie. The picture links at the top of this page:
http://www.venusimaging.com

I want to mirror on the boards page above the boards:
http://venusimaging.com/eve/ubb.x

Thanks for your help :-)