It does help cheers....I was just thinking what it would take to make it easy for the average joe sixpack...i.e. muppet user.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Menzel Sent: 29 January 2004 15:32 To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] RE: Footer > 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 This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com --- 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
