Website Design Forum

**Boswell** · 02-20-2005, 11:22 AM

Very basic stuff, guys, but I need help to finish off a site urgently, and I'm brand new to Dreamweaver MX...having converted from GoLive.

I am trying to create a link which will take my customers to another site without losing them, and preferably opening the other site in a separate, smaller window. Is this possible?

I've tried blank/parent/self/top in Target, but new site appears in full browser window and I then get stuck (i.e. using back arrow just returns to same place) with the new site.

I'm using Opera 7 as a browser.

Can anyone steer me towards the obvious?
Thanks.

**Boswell** · 02:17 PM

OK, sort of worked it out with Behaviours, using OnClick and OpenBrowser Window (and some MacroMedia help), but I seem to be getting two windows opening, one on top of the other.

Any clues on why I am getting this?

**Hubbert** · 05:20 PM

I don´t know MX but can´t you use this:
In the head:
<SCRIPT language=javascript>

</SCRIPT>

There the link should be in the body:

<a onClick=openOutside (); href="#Omstart"><b>Follow this link</b></a>

Edit:
If you have moore links you just add
function openOutside ()
{open ("http://www.siteoutside.com","Outside","toolbar=no,directo ries=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,width=600,height= 300,resizable=no");}
//-->
in the head but ofcourse change the value Outside to something else. In the body the same

**Hubbert** · 02-21-2005, 06:11 PM

Ok now I got you. I have the same trouble in my Dreamweaver 3, (i thought they should have fixed it by now).

I put the link always in a table or a layer and make sure that the code don´t get mixed up.
It looks like the linkcode follow the whole page sometimes if you don´t make sure that it
is separated.

Like this you will have no trouble. You have to add # if you want the coursor to notice the link with the handsymbol
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="3">
<tr>
<td onClick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.search.msn.com,'','width=400,height=300')"><a href="#">follow
this link</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td onClick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.googel.com','','width=300,height=100')">
<a href="#">and this link aswell</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Some help I hope and sorry for my bad English

**Kaiman** · 03-09-2005, 07:37 PM

In Dreamweaver MX and MX 04 you just set the target to blank and it opens up in a new window without hassle. Try just creating a link and putting this code between the <a> and </a> tags:

target="_blank"

See if that works.

Kaiman

Storm King Design