converting existing site to C5
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Hello,
I'm looking to convert an existing site to a C5 site but it's not a straight forward site, it's split in to head office and centre's so it has a separate navigation set per centre, the sites url's are built the following way:
head office:
http://www.sitename.com/ (home page)
then
http://www.sitename.com/head-office/page-name/... (with it's own menu set)
Home | About | Services | News | Events | Careers | Find Us | Contact Us
individual centre:
http://www.sitename.com/centre-name/page-name/... (with it's own menu set)
Centre Home | Find Us | The Team | Appointments | Services |
now I can do the pages but have no idea how to create the individual menu set could someone point me in the right direction on how to do this?
I'm looking to convert an existing site to a C5 site but it's not a straight forward site, it's split in to head office and centre's so it has a separate navigation set per centre, the sites url's are built the following way:
head office:
http://www.sitename.com/ (home page)
then
http://www.sitename.com/head-office/page-name/... (with it's own menu set)
Home | About | Services | News | Events | Careers | Find Us | Contact Us
individual centre:
http://www.sitename.com/centre-name/page-name/... (with it's own menu set)
Centre Home | Find Us | The Team | Appointments | Services |
now I can do the pages but have no idea how to create the individual menu set could someone point me in the right direction on how to do this?
Hi Irsah,
sorry in the late reply but been snowed under with work and put this on the back fires for a while now, It's getting to the time I need to start focusing on it, If I set a test site up on a test server could you give me some guidance on this.
The site is designed and up and running but I need to get it in to C5 with the menus how I need it to run.
I take it the menus stuff as you said will be pretty straightforward?
could you give me some help in this area?
Let me know if you can please.
Regards
Mal
sorry in the late reply but been snowed under with work and put this on the back fires for a while now, It's getting to the time I need to start focusing on it, If I set a test site up on a test server could you give me some guidance on this.
The site is designed and up and running but I need to get it in to C5 with the menus how I need it to run.
I take it the menus stuff as you said will be pretty straightforward?
could you give me some help in this area?
Let me know if you can please.
Regards
Mal
Hai Mal..
Quite tide up here but from time to time it is possible to help your out. Anyway been several weeks non active in c5 forum since that election day in my country is just around the corner. So i am quite busy with prep and so on... (esp online)
If you have your dev site live, I'll probably could suggest some options as 2 heads or more, is better than 1 right? If your uncomfortable releasing info, PM me. But the c5 community here are very awesome in mods and ideas themselves too.
Cheers.
Irsah inDesigns
Quite tide up here but from time to time it is possible to help your out. Anyway been several weeks non active in c5 forum since that election day in my country is just around the corner. So i am quite busy with prep and so on... (esp online)
If you have your dev site live, I'll probably could suggest some options as 2 heads or more, is better than 1 right? If your uncomfortable releasing info, PM me. But the c5 community here are very awesome in mods and ideas themselves too.
Cheers.
Irsah inDesigns
Just an idea. concrete5 treats pages as directories and also as categories too. So, for your project, it could be like this;
Home -> the homepage has a call to action to Head Office or Individual Centre incl any new news/buletin updates etc.
-Head Office (Home) -> A landing page for Head Office
--About
--Services
--News
--Event
--Careers
--Find Us
-Individual Centre - A seperate landing Page
--Find Us
--The Team
--Appointments
--Services
You can use more pagetypes including themes in a c5 site. Build your theme for Head Office and for Individual Centre. If you're using one theme with slight differences, you can make your theme editable from the front end. Just activate one theme and install the other, and assign it's default pagetype in the dashboard pagetype setting. This way you are a bit organize for your different web page designs (theming) within a sitemap directory.
For Navigation use Autonav for Top navigations and PageList (custom template - show page titles) for secondary menu navigations
or;
- Autonav 1 for Head Office with setting show below Head Office pages.
- Autonav 2 for Individual pages and with setting show below the Individual Center pages.
or;
you can have one menu (autunav) with setting show below page but then it will be hard for users to navigate between the parent pages later.
Use pagelist to organise your sub menus or if you're familiar, you can use Amiant CSS3 autonav block which includes drop down menu. Works just like the core autonav.
You can also use and assign attributes to the required pages which is following your sitemap tree and have more control for you autonav menu navigations.
Hope it helps,
Irsah