Hey, I'm with Georgia State University. We've been using RedDot CMS now since about 2005 and I just found out about this group. I apologize, but this is going to be a long first post with a couple of questions introduced throughout.
We're about to embark on our first major redesign since then and with 7.5 we will want to make the most out of the navigation manager and page definitions. One of the main problems we're having at the moment is how do we build a single foundation that works for every thing. Let me give you a few examples: Our Current Homepage: http://www.gsu.edu/ The main nav is currently the top nav bar. The left nav is more user/ informational specific. Everything there should have a main home under the top nav. With the redesign, we'll make this arrangement more clear. A Current Subsite: http://www.gsu.edu/es/ A major point of concern is getting the graphic banner for the department (right under the horizontal nav) worked into the foundation without creating a new foundation. Another issue is ensuring that only the navigation for that subsite shows in the left. All subsites right now run through the Offices & Services link in the top navbar and that's reflected in the breadcrumbing. I'm thinking this is easy if we have our logic right for the navigation manager. Another thing to know is that everything right now is of course build using target containers. So, the question at this point really is: How do we build a foundation that will have the potential to display custom elements without having to create a new foundation? What's the best practice here? The next thing is what we are looking at in the future. We recently did have to create a new template for our Undergraduate Admissions group. They didn't have the time to wait for the full redesign and we wanted to test some things out. The version of the site that is live has been built using RD 6.5 not 7.5 and is target container based. We have several elements that are only used on certain pages such as a left navbar and a flash banner. So, the question here again is: How do we build a foundation that will have the potential to display custom elements without having to create a new foundation? This design is very close to what we hope will go live, but the marketing/design group hasn't actually designed it yet. This is solely based on the wireframe we think will resolve our biggest problems. Here's the site: Main Home: http://www.gsu.edu/admissions/ Audience Home: http://www.gsu.edu/admissions/highschoolindex.html Basic Page: http://www.gsu.edu/admissions/28285.html I'm not so much worried about inserting a photo at the top of the page. That can be handled through various content classes within the content area. It's the fact that some pages will not require a left navigation bar or flash banner which will always be above the top navigation. Then there's that whole navigation problem itself. How would you all handle these issues? We have well over 30 subsites that will need to be rebuild/redesigned with the new template so this is very important. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
