Â. A navigation menu allows users to easily browse through all the pages on your website. That is the basics for using the EverWeb navigation menu. You can see how this works, just by resizing the right hand side of EverWeb’s user Interface. In essence, this allows you to switch between the ‘traditional’ navigation and a ‘hamburger’ icon styled navigation at a user specified screen width. In this post we look at how you can link to a blog post in the navigation menu bar. October 15, 2020 - Stylish Navigation Menu Widgets from EverWeb Garden, October 8, 2020 - EverWeb’s Image Gallery Widget Pagination Feature, October 2, 2020 - Creating a Blog Post Template in EverWeb. The Hamburger icon itself can also be customized, and you can use your own custom label for the menu or leave it blank if you don’t want to have a label at all. If you have any questions about this blog post, please let us know, we’re here to help! You can also change the font size of the text if you’d like. To set where the hamburger appears, select the Menu Position drop down and choose either Right or Left. Style and Position the widget as you like. If you do not want any label at all, delete the text from the ‘Label’ box. You will notice that when the mouse hovers over any link in the navigation menu, the color changes. I like to use the same color that is used for the normal link, however, this is entirely up to you. We also explain how to take your visitor directly to a particular point on the page from the navigation menu using Scroll Position to do so. You can easily add a navigation menu to your site by dragging and dropping the navigation menu widget onto your page. The Responsive Options now become available for you to use. For more on customizing the Navigation Menu widget please refer to the blog posts EverWeb’s Navigation Menu Widget: Adding a Menu and Styling Options. You can also select whether you want an underline to appear or not appear when the mouse is hovering over one of the links.

By default this is set to 700px. The anchor text for each link will come from the value displayed in the Navigation Menu Display Name. Navigation Menu - Part 2. The menu can be set to appear on the right or left of the browser window.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. The Hamburger Button Options section of the widget allow you to customize the Hamburger icon. All rights reserved. To see how this option works,  drag the right hand vertical edge of the EverWeb window to the left until the navigation menu changes. Next go to the Widget Settings and tick the ‘Responsive Navigation Bar’ checkbox. You can also change the color of the text for when the mouse is hovering over the link. Press the Subscribe button and keep up to date with all our latest videos, tips, tricks and news. When I narrow the right hand side to less than 700px the Navigation Menu changes to a hamburger style menu! EverWeb’s Navigation Menu widget (available in EverWeb version 2.7 or higher) allows you to easily make Hamburger icon styled navigation menus. You will see the new ‘Responsive Options’ and ‘Hamburger Button’ sections have been added to the widget. If you prefer not to have a color set, deselect the ‘Use Background Color’ tick box. In my example, I am going to make the widget full width and fixed position, although it’s not necessary to do this if you don't want to.

The hamburger navigation has a horizontal strip across the top of the page which has its color set by ‘Use Background Color’. To find out more about using the updated Navigation Menu Widget check out our YouTube video Building a Responsive Navigation Menu.

© 2020 RAGE Software. You can also adjust the Padding, Spacing, and Minimum width for the navigation menu. To change the color of the text, you can click on the Hyperlinks tab and click on the color next to Normal. To change the background of the drop down menu items for the navigation, as well as the separator line, use the Drop Down Menu options in the Widget Settings. The ‘Appear at Width’ option lets you set at which point the Hamburger navigation is displayed in preference to the regular Navigation Menu. To change the background color, first tick ‘Use Background Color’ then select the color you want using the Background Color swatch. To customize the size and font of the label click the ‘Fonts’ button at the bottom of the Hamburger Button Options to access the Fonts Panel. When you change the font size of the label, the Hamburger icon will also be resized. Don’t forget to test both desktop and mobile devices before publishing your website. Your privacy is very important to us. You can also choose the link color that is displayed when the link has already been visited by the user. You can set the background color you want by using the Custom Background Color option.    Privacy Policy | Disclaimer, © 2020 RAGE Software. on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 at 8:43 pm and is filed under EverWeb, EverWeb, Software.

When the navigation menu changes you will see that the hamburger icon appears at the top of the page, regardless of where you have placed the navigation as this is the location it would be at on a mobile device. Style and Position the widget as you like.

All rights reserved. When your click on the Hamburger icon, a drop down menu of choices will appear based on how you have set up your menu structure in the Web Page List. With the Navigation Menu Widget selected, click on the Widget Settings button in the Inspector Window. You can set when the Hamburger icon appears by using the ‘Appear at width option. All rights reserved. Then select the color you would like to use for the text. See our. EverWeb’s NEW Responsive Navigation Menu Widget! You can change the font of the text by clicking on the Fonts button in the toolbar and selecting the font you want to use. Drag and drop the Navigation Menu widget on to your page if you have not done so already. EverWeb’s new Navigation Menu widget options bring new responsive options to EverWeb.    Privacy Policy | Disclaimer, © 2020 RAGE Software. The default value is set to 700 pixels which is usually good for most mobile devices. In our previous post, we looked at how to add an external website page link to the Navigation Menu widget in EverWeb. However, 700 pixels should be suitable for most mobile devices although you may have to go down to 500. Make sure to watch part 2 to learn about adding a background color to the navigation menu. What this means is that the Navigation Menu Widget can automatically adjust to suit the environment you are working in.

EverWeb’s Navigation Menu widget (available in EverWeb version 2.7 or higher) allows you to easily make Hamburger icon styled navigation menus. Drag and drop the Navigation Menu widget on to your page if you have not done so already. © 2020 RAGE Software. If you want to have a hamburger style navigation menu as default for your website in place of the traditional navigation, set the ‘Appear at Width’ value to ‘99999’. EverWeb’s Navigation Menu Widget: Adding a Menu, Using EverWeb’s PayPal Widget Donate Button. To change the hamburger icon’s menu label just overtype ‘MENU’ with the label you want. On the widget settings tab, you can choose the alignment for your navigation menu.

The navigation menu will include links to all of the pages on your site, so long as each page has the Include page in navigation menu option selected. You can also adjust the Padding, Spacing, and Minimum width for the navigation menu. Video Transcript: If you want to add a background color to your navigation menu, you can do so by clicking on the Shape Options tab, and selecting Color Fill from the drop down menu. EverWeb’s Navigation Menu Widget has been updated in version 2.7 so is now responsive! You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can also find EverWeb on the following social media platforms: This entry was posted All rights reserved. Stay up to date, plus get special discounts and offers. You can also specify whether you want the text to be underline or not by clicking on the underlined U. EverWeb’s Navigation Menu Widget has been updated in version 2.7 so is now responsive! On the widget settings tab, you can choose the alignment for your navigation menu. Activate the Responsive Options by ticking the ‘Responsive Navigation Bar’ checkbox. The color of the Hamburger icon itself is set using the Hamburger Color swatch.