Hi Brendan, > Nice work Tim. Care to share with us some info on the site? Custom > types/rules, plugins, stats etc? We'll use this info on our soon to be > "showcase" page on the website.
No worries. The site runs FarCry b130 on Windows 2000/IIS5 with SQL Server 2000 running the database. We have seperate staging and production servers and seperate database servers. The 2 databases sync content changes on the hour using SQL replication services. We used Spike's Friendly URL plugin, modified slightly to avoid issues with IIS. Hence all pages end in index.cfm. Also using verity for searching, and this was a snap. We were able to reuse the search results page from the FarCry demo with only slight mods for using Friendly URLs and linking to files. A scheduled process reindexes content daily. Personalisation Pages, Projects and News Items can be classified and given a priority. Custom rules then determine what's featured on the Home Page. If you create a profile in the 'My Australand' section, home page contents are customised based on your preferences. eg. Featured projects might all be NSW Apartments. Caching User preferences are added to cache names. So everything's cached, but there are multiple caches for the home page, based on various combinations of colour choice, where you live and what type of developments you're interested in. Menus Got a great free multilevel DHTML menu from http://www.dynamicdrive.com. Works in all modern browsers and it's easy to mod so you can build the menus on the fly from the Nav tree. Custom Types There are a few custom types. The most important is Projects which stores all the info about development projects. It allows us to enter info in one place that needs to be displayed across several pages - eg. Project Contact Info, Image and Logo. Each project object is linked to a Nav node on the site tree. Every page below that node then inherits the project's properties. HTH Tim --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
