Hi Gary, I started a thread a week ago called "New base website - please" which yourself and Geoff got involved in. I was quite late in my final reply so you may have missed it, please see below. Like quite a few new people to farcry recently I to am having a hard time understanding navigation. I have read the documentation, but non of it seems to be aimed squarly at people new to the app.
Thanks lee Hi Geoff, I know the default installation is full functional, but not much functionality is demonstrated in the default site. How about adding several new options to the menu bar in the default installation. News, Events, Facts and Nav could be added to demonstrate an implementation of each. Nav could demonstrate how to use the side bar for links, in the same way the farcry site does. I think a lot of newcryers like me would love to have something like this to learn from. Thanks Lee "Gary Menzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi - I am just wondering what the purpose of the second level nav items > > are if they dont do anything with farcry being standard. I cant find any > > reference to them in the app when it is cleanly installed. > > There isn't any reference to them in the sample application. > > I think there is a mixup happening here. FarCry isn't an out-of-the-box solution. Think of it more like a framework. You still > have to put all the cladding on. And a major part of the cladding is the menus. Everything is in there to get at all the levels > of the menus, but you do have to dig around as well as decide what "materials" you are going to use for the cladding (let alone > choosing the paints and trimmings). > > The installed application is a "sample" only. > > I have to ask this..... Have you been through all the documentation on the FarCry site? > http://farcry.daemon.com.au > > There is lots of stuff there that will answer some of your questions. But you will still need to look at some of the core code to > feel completely comfortable in changing the stuff in the sample application and, ultimately, your own extensions in your own > application. > > I have personally found that having a very good understanding of CFMX is essential and the ability to read other peoples code a > very important bonus. > > > Also, in response to Gary's code, I have the demo navigation stuff > > working - thank you, but only by putting the <cfcomponent> tag into the > > displaypagelanding.cfm not the displaypageStandard.cfm file. > > If you have not set any of your pages to use the displaypageStandard.cfm template then you would not see anything if you put the > code in there. > > Regards, > Gary > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
