As mentioned previously I'm currently engaged in developing an Actinic site for a customer. Finding the information required to customise the site to get a consistent navigation structure has proved more difficult than I feel it should be, so here are some pointers.

Within Actinic under Advanced -> Template Manager you will find two different methods of viewing the templates. I found these equally confusing and resorted to just working directly with the template files. You find these in your Site folder, all named Act_something.html. If you go to the index in the Help system you'll find most of these are documented, although there are also some omissions.

For our site there proved to be four top-level templates that needed to change:
Act_Primary.html - the product pages
Act_BrochurePrimary.html - the brochure pages
Act_PrimaryCart.html - view cart
Act_PrimaryAlt.html - the checkout sequence

Then within these template it's quite straightforward to identify the sections that generate the top navigation and side navigation bars and to replace these with your own code. Once these are updated then you can see the effect on the product and brochure pages immediately in the preview, but the for the cart and checkout you have to upload to your test site.

One final word of warning is that at the time of writing there is a bug with NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOG and NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOGLINK which means that they don't actually generate anything. The workaround is to hand-code the necessary link with href="/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SECTIONID=index.html&NOLOGIN=1".

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