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templates have site navigation bars turned on. If you don’t want this behavior, simply turn
off the site navigation bar option on the NAVBAR DIALOG.

The standalone NavBars presented with each theme in the gallery do not have site
navigation turned on by default. This is because any user adding bars manually is less
likely to want that bar on every page of their site, with a link to every page. But again, the
option can easily be turned on in the NavBar dialog if required.

Other points to note
If you delete a button which points to one of your pages, or change the link on it to point
elsewhere, no special action is taken to restore a button link to the page. It’s assumed
you decided that you didn’t want a direct link to that page in your site navigation bar. New
buttons and page links are only created when a page is added.

Single button NavBars

Sites designed to be viewed on small mobile devices have little space for horizontal or
vertical NavBars, so a more space efficient solution is needed. Using a NavBar with a
single button and a menu is one such solution that works well, no matter how many
pages are in the site.

Single button vertical NavBar
To make a single button NavBar from an ordinary NavBar, simply open the NAVIGATION
BAR PROPERTIES dialog (double click on the NavBar) and delete all but one of the
buttons. Then also remove the link from the button (click the URL field next to the button
in the dialog and choose DO NOTHING in the Link dialog). Now you can either start adding
menu entries to the button manually in the NavBar dialog, or a menu entry can be added
automatically for each page in your site. To add the links automatically, turn on the SITE
NAVIGATION BAR option in the dialog (or turn it off and then on again if it was already on).