As there is a growing trend towards site maps in footers, is there a way to achieve this easily in FWY?
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You could use the Site Map Action (part of Freeway) to draw this, then
add it to the bottom of each page using a Master Page. You will
probably need to move it vertically on each page, since it’s hard to
say how tall each page will end up, but that should work okay.
Walter
On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:12 PM, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
As there is a growing trend towards site maps in footers, is there a
way to achieve this easily in FWY?
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Indeed I thought of that but isn’t it simply set up as a vertical list only? And I found it difficult to apply any nice style to the action. It’s just plain ugly on most of the default settings.
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Yikes, you’re right! I was going to suggest that you simply write some
extra styles to fix that, but it’s hopeless – the output is a table,
and there’s no fixing that with some clever scripting. If this was
done with unordered lists, then it would be pretty simple to make it
fit its container.
Walter
On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:40 PM, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
Indeed I thought of that but isn’t it simply set up as a vertical
list only? And I found it difficult to apply any nice style to the
action. It’s just plain ugly on most of the default settings.
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Yes I think you’re right. Well at least the current sitemap action does a good job of providing the list of pages. From then on it’s a question of layout/ styling and linking.
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Incidentally, the reasons given for footer site maps are:
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Engage user click and visit duration:
Online readers don’t read everything on the page, they scroll and scan. Footer is probably the last place they look at before exiting. Placing a sitemap in the footer may attract readers’ attention and increase page clicks and views. -
Make sure your visitors are not missing out:
Sometimes your visitors might be too lazy to click on the sitemap link or miss it all together, having a sitemap in the footer can ensure your visitors are aware of every page. -
Use your footer to promote links:
You don’t really have to use the footer to list out everything, you can use it as an alternative location to promote important pages. -
Save readers’ time:
Having a sitemap in the footer allows users to quickly jump from page to page. -
You save the visitors a click:
By placing the sitemap in the footer rather than a separate page, you save the visitors a click. -
Enhanced layout design:
Don’t know what to put in the footer? Perhaps a sitemap can fill up the page and make your site look bigger.
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I noticed that on a lot of sites lately. I think I just have to get used to it.
I think it makes the site look like a garage sale!
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Gets you where you want fast instead of being led by the nose. Depends on what kind of site you have. But then again is IS a footer so you don’t even have to scroll that far!
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We did this kind of site map footer on our new FW5 site here:
How it was done was to have a series of includes for each column of
links in the site map in each php page. This is so I can edit “site
map links” site wide at any point later. Also this was the only way
I could get the site to validate correctly. The “make insert page
action” would not validate.
David
On 23 Mar 2009, at 18:12, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
As there is a growing trend towards site maps in footers, is there a
way to achieve this easily in FWY?
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How it was done was to have a series of includes for each column of
links in the site map in each php page. This is so I can edit “site
map links” site wide at any point later. Also this was the only way
I could get the site to validate correctly. The “make insert page
action” would not validate.
Is there a tutorial somewhere for using php? Sorry for the dumb question but is that a form of CMS?
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PHP is a programming language that was originally designed to be
embedded in HTML. It has outgrown those roots by quite a lot, but it
still has all the lovable features that made it such a hit with the
early dynamic Web.
PHP may be used to write a CMS, but that’s like saying that the
alphabet may be used to write sonnets.
Walter
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:45 AM, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
Is there a tutorial somewhere for using php? Sorry for the dumb
question but is that a form of CMS?
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Sometime around 24/3/09 (at 10:45 -0400) John-Paul Kernot said:
Is there a tutorial somewhere for using php? Sorry for the dumb
question but is that a form of CMS?
You can get a bit of an idea about PHP and perhaps even get started
with this particular game by reading the article at
http://www.thehelpful.com/php/ - start with the ‘PHP Explained’ link.
k
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