Custom global footer - doable or not?

On the topic of header and footers, I created a footer which I will apply to all topics, but because I have my breadcrumb trail at the bottom of my pages the footer actually appears just above this breadcrumb trail.

Is there a way to have the breadcrumb trail appear at the bottom of a topic BUT above the footer?

Thanks in advance, novice here just learning. I am creating a Webhelp project.
anna

I suggest doing some quick research on the Web about creating a frame at the bottom of a page, and/or ask a Web developer if that can be done. As I mentioned earlier, I don't know enough about framesets to say it can or can't be done or how long it would take to set it up.

I would think the framesets would be editable, but it would be safest to make a backup copy of your project first (in case tinkering breaks something) and have someone who's familiar with framesets take a look at it. RH's default is a two- or three-pane layout, so doing a footer frame is beyond its scope and would require manual programming.

Thank you - again! I am using the WebHelp output - so it's all HTML based, displayed in a browser. My main concern is that I can't seem to be able to do changes to my frameset:

It seems to always be one frame at the top for the tools, one to the right for content and one to the left for TOC - is this editable at all or is this how it has to work?

To match our company website, we'd like to create a system that can have a solid header and footer with our corporate design and have all the actual RH stuff happening "between" the header and the footer.

Can it be done or is it days & weeks of work? Cheers! / Jonas

I'm a little confused. Your output is Microsoft HTML Help--so your output is a .chm file? (I don't take that for granted in this forum because I think it's misnamed. There's a RoboHelp for Word forum, and then there is an HTML Help forum, so I think this one is supposed to be just RoboHelp HTML.)

If you are doing MS HTML Help, I don't see how you can make that look anything like a company website (unless the website has a flat, gray look). They're two totally different animals. WebHelp or FlashHelp skins could be configured to look like a website.

If you could come back and clarify whether you're creating a .chm or WebHelp/FlashHelp files, we can go from there. It's all HTML.

I use HTML output... But I keep running into trouble. Have I understood this correctly: When you create a new HTML help project, the system ALWAYS give you the same HTML framework in terms of numbers of frames and their positions? MUST I use frames or can I do it in a single page fashion? I get no options when I set up a new project. Thank you for bearing with a beginner! / Jonas

I know that at least in a FlashHelp skin file (.fhs), you can specify the pixel height of the header/toolbar frame. It may be the same for WebHelp. You never mentioned which output type you're using. If you edit the skin file in your source files, the change will apply every time you generate your output.

--Ben

Can you create a bottom frameset that is specified in the .htm start page? Just a thought--I don't know much about framesets.

--Ben

Hi, goopher, and welcome,

You may want to try the techniques described in the following article, which regular contributor MergeThis recently drew to our attention (so credit to him):

http://www.xoc.net/works/tips/non-scrolling-region.asp

Either technique would suit. In each case, you'd need to swap around the scrolling and non-scrolling regions so that the non-scrolling one is at the bottom rather than the top. I guess you could use a "snippet", if working with RoboHelp 7, to reuse the same block of HTML code in each non-scrolling region. There are alternatives involving JavaScript, however, if snippets aren't an option for you.

Pete