Tech Tip: More on Horizontal Navigation

So, somehow I am still struggling with getting my new stories to show up on the horizontal navigation of my storybook. So, I decided that I would write another tech tip to both serve as a reminder for myself and help those who might be experiencing the same difficulties.

So, after I write my stories, they don't pop up in the navigation, even if I say I want them on their own page. I always try to go into settings under "manage site" and then I accidentally but the story as a sub-page on one of the other stories sites. So, do not click "manage site".

Rather, go to the settings menu, click edit site layout, then hold your cursor over the buttons for the other stories. The entire bar should highlight itself and a little message will pop up that says "edit horizontal navigation". Click anywhere in that highlighted bar, and another window will come up that has the name of all your pages. Click "add page" that's in blue at the bottom of the first box. Click this, and then click the name of the story that you want to add to the navigation bar. Once it is selected, click "okay" and then it should have it's own button in the navigation! 

I don't know why this is so difficult for me to remember, but I also have to re-remind myself every two weeks. I hope this helps anyone else that has also chosen to do a horizontal navigation bar! 

Tech Tip Site Navigation

So somehow earlier today, while updating my storybook. I managed to make my new story a subpage of my Introduction and to completely delete my navigation bar. Needless to say, I was freaking out because I could not figure out how it just happened. Luckily, I figured it out by following the GoogleSites: Adjusting the Navigation Panel blog to help me figure it out!

I decided for my webpage that a horizontal navigation would look best since a lot of my titles are really short. It works really well for these since the whole title can fix in the box. Also, I think it helps focus the viewer on the text since it takes up the whole page, rather than leaving space on the side for the navigation panel. It also easily lays out how many pages they are and makes it super easy to navigate to each. All you have to do is refer back to the top, just like you would when searching on Safari or Google Chrome. 

Once I got the Navigation Pane back by going to More-->Edit Site Layout-->Horizontal Navigation. I then, had to figure out how to get the first story out of the Introduction page. I went to More-->Manage Sites--> Pages (from the left hand tool bar). From there, I could drag the Cinderella page to underneath the The Magic of Reading page. This popped it back out to being a page of it's own!

I hope this could help anyone who's struggling with the same issues I did! To view my Storybook site, click here.

Tech Tip: Twitter Follow

I decided to do some tech tips this week for my extra credit. Since I have a Twitter account, but hardly ever use it, I decided to revive it some by following some new accounts. The account I followed this week is Glamour magazine. I followed Glamour because I really like the magazine and the content that they publish. It's beneficial advice thats targeted towards women like me and my friends! I also am very interested in working in the magazine industry in the future and Glamour is one of the publications I would love to work at! 

Glamour Magazine's logo

This past November, I was lucky enough to go to New York City with the magazine interest group in Gaylord. We visited multiple magazine headquarters to get connections to people in the industry and start networking. Glamour was one of the magazines we visited, and I loved the atmosphere and the people that I met who worked there! I don't know why I didn't follow them earlier!