So I’ve read through all the prior posts regarding anchors in Rapidweaver and I can’t understand how something so basic to web page design is so difficult to get working in Rapidweaver. I wish I understood code well enough to be able to grok this, but I don’t.
I have a page located at http://actonart.com/offclass/descriptions/. It’s a listing of class descriptions and each one of them needs an anchor so visitors can jump to it from other parts of the site…usually from OTHER pages. I’ve been using JW’s anchor stack and it clearly does work, but not all the time. If there are less than 10 anchors on a page it seems ok. Add any over 10 however and all those don’t work. They jump to random parts of the page, usually no where near any anchor. I know the anchors and links are set up correctly because some of them always work! But I cannot get them all to work.
As an example. Visit this page http://actonart.com/offclass/classes/ . Scroll to the boxes that list the classes by name. Click any of the blue “more info” buttons at the bottom. The top nine of them work, but everything below doesn’t. What could possibly cause this kind of failure?
Ok, this is definitely not the right thing. The Link stack doesn’t have any way to set an anchor. There is no Anchor stack on JW’s web site that I can find now.
There are two stacks with JW’s link and anchor stacks. One is called “link” this would be used to add a link to any stack you want. The second is called “link anchor.” This one adds the ID to a location on the page you want to jump to. That is the one you are having problems with.
I think the current version number on these is 2.3.
Just download the latest versions from Joe’s site.
Browsers have changed, so the old way to " anchor" points no longer work, that is why there is an update.
Yup. I just did download Link Anchor off JW’s web site. When the file appears on my desktop it’s named “Link.dmg” It decompresses as the Link stack ONLY.
Looks like an older version is getting downloaded. That should auto-update to the latest version though. Its still just one stack. The Anchor stack is embedded inside that Link.stack file.
I’ve tried to use Anchorpoint but it won’t install for me. I’ve been assuming it’s no longer functional in RW7 because every time I try to install it simply goes directly into the trash. And I also have the old version of Link Anchor running in Stacks 3 but it never updates, so I guess it’s too old for that functionality. I will contact JW support.
I’m downloading directly off your site so I’m not sure what else to do. The file decompresses without any problem but there’s only the one stack. I keep looking around to see if it’s hidden underneath another icon (unlikely) but it’s just Link that appears in RW. I’ve tried using the installer and dragging the file directly into RW but it makes no difference.
Ok. I tried that and it’s the same. Just the Link stack. No Anchor stack to be seen.
I’ll do some troubleshooting elsewhere to be sure I don’t have some as of yet unseen problem with a hard drive etc. This is too weird to be “normal”. Thanks for your help.
You assume wrong. AnchorPoint works perfectly with RW7. The minimum system requirements for this stack is RW6 and Stacks 3. Hundreds of people are using AnchorPoint in RW7 without any difficulties. There must be something very messed up on your computer if you are using Stacks 3 and you cannot get these stacks to install or display.
I’ve just run Disk first aid twice and it clears my drive as fine. Zero problems.
I reinstalled Rapidweaver from a new download just to eliminate that as a possible.
I’m using the Themeflood Photogenic theme and fairly well known reliable stacks that I wouldn’t suspect of any interactions.
Is there any reason to think this might be wifi related? I’m working in a place with flaky wifi that sort of comes and goes periodically. It something were to glitch during a download I simply wouldn’t get it right? Or it would be a corrupt download that wouldn’t expand.
