> What do people normally use in the footer? Are they creating custom > templates / containers / rules for the content? I would like to have a set > of utility option in there, such as Site Map etc but cant think of a way to > do it at present.
On the ABN AMRO Morgans site the footer is part of the template. YOU WANT NAV ALIENS! errr aliases. For all of the items that we want in the footer, we give them locations in the main navigation of the site (things like Feedback, Disclaimer, Privacy all live somewhere under "Contact Us" on our site). Each of these things we give a nav alias to. Then, with the code that generates the links in the footer, we just use the nav alias with a <skin:buildlink>, e.g. <skin:buildlink objectid="#application.navid.feedback#">Feedback</skin:buildlink> <skin:buildlink objectid="#application.navid.disclaimer#">Disclaimer</skin:buildlink> etc. We do the same for our quick links up in the banner (Contact Us, Site Map, Search). We toyed with the idea of making the footer a container - but there was no justification for it changing often enough to warrant it. We also toyed with the idea of creating a "footer" navigation in the Utility tree - but also abandoned that because we wanted the pages to have "real" homes in our main nav and could not justify a need for an admin person to change those items in the footer often enough for it to matter (even though they could have made those point back using a symbolic link). It will be a long time before we change those and it will probably be another template/site revamp when we do. And even if someone suddenly says "Can we have 'site map' in the footer" it will take us all of about 5 minutes to add the link, test it and release the updated template. Hope this helps. Regards, Gary Menzel --- 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
