Navigation Options

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In the navigation options window you customize the looks of the navigation links on the generated gallery pages.

Presets

Select a preset to use any of the predefined navigation styles from the drop-down list. You can save your own navigation settings as a preset by clicking the Save as button. Click Delete to remove a preset.

Tip

Hold the Ctrl button when clicking the Save button to save the current preset with the same name.

General

Text label

Specifies the text label of navigation item. If a button image is selected for the navigation item, the text label will be used as alternate text (alt) for the image.

Button image

Set this field to use a button image instead of text for the navigation link. Arles Image Web Page Creator contains many ready to use images in the buttons folder. Click the browse button to select a navigation image.

Link

The link field is only used for the Home navigation item. Use this item to include a link to your home page (e.g. http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles).

Target

Set target to _top if you want to break out of any frames when clicking the Home navigation button or link. Select _blank if you want to open your home page in a new window.

When generating HTML the navigation image will be copied to a sub-folder of the target folder. You can set the sub-folder name in the Advanced File Locations window.

Note, that Arles removes any unnecessary links. For example, the first index page will not contain the First navigation link.

Index page tab

Select the checkboxes of each navigation item you want to include in your galleries.

Navigation bar

Creates a navigation bar for multi-level galleries. This option is mostly used in combination with the multi-folder processing tool. The multi-folder root folder is also the top level for the navigation bar.

Home

Link to your home page. Use the link field to specify the location.

Go one level up. This option is mostly used in combination with the multi-folder processing tool. The Up item is not shown on the top level, which is the root folder as specified in the multi-folder processing window.

First

Link to the first index page.

Link to previous index page.

Link to next index page.

Last

Link to last index page.

Quick list

Drop down box containing quick links to all other index pages.

Index

Current index page number text (e.g. "Index 3").

'Total number of index pages available (e.g. "of 10").

Image pages tab

Select the checkboxes of each navigation item you want to include in your galleries.

Navigation bar

Slideshow Start/Stop

Adds a slideshow start/stop button. You must also enable the slideshow on the Image Pages tab for the button to show up.

Home

Link to your home page. Use the link field to specify the location.

Index

Link to index page.

First

Link to first image.

Link to previous image.

Link to next image.

Last

Link to last image.

Quick list

Drop down box containing quick links to all other images in the gallery.

Image

Current image number text (e.g. "Image 3").

Total number of images available (e.g. "of 10").

Accessibility

Select Enable shortcut keys to enable navigating generated galleries with keyboard shortcuts. Shortcuts have a few disadvantages though, especially in the Internet Explorer.

Firefox browser

In the Mozilla Firefox web browser shortcuts work as expected. Selecting a shortcut will directly perform the required action. For example, clicking Alt+N will load the next image page in the browser.

Internet Explorer

In Microsoft Internet Explorer shortcuts only select the navigation item in question. You always have to click the Return key to perform the action. For example, clicking Alt+N will select the Next link. You must click the Return key to actually load the next image page. Similarly to go to the previous page, click Alt+P and then Return.

Note

Gallery shortcut keys will override browser shortcut keys. For example, in the English version of Internet Explorer the Alt+F key combination normally opens the File menu . If you decide to use the Alt+F shortcut in your gallery then the original Internet Explorer File menu shortcut will no longer work. Therefore be careful which keys you specify, as some visitors of your pages may not like this behavior.

Options

Disabled buttons

Arles disables navigation buttons when they have no function. For example, the First button is disabled on the first image page.

Select Hide if you want hide buttons which are disabled. Select Replace with spacer to replace disabled buttons with a similar sized space. This will lock the button better in its place on the web page and prevent "jumping" buttons which some users find awkward.

Navigation layout

Select Use table to add a HTML table structure around the navigation links. The table structure is required to set the spacing between the navigation items. Uncheck the Use table option to enable wrapping of the navigation links in smaller browser windows.