Creating a new home page within a template

Monday 08 March 2004 9:32:20 am

Hi there,

I am having trouble understanding the method for creating a new homepage - I have started off with the corporate site template. I now want to add my own homepage...

Problem seems to be that anythnig I create within 'root' becomes a subdirectory of root (obviously!) so, for instance, if I create an 'info page' called home, I get a 'home' link within the navigation (which is good).

Unfortunately, the breadcrumbs nav shows <siteroot>/home, and you can click on <siteroot> and get to a directory above home :(((

OK, someone please explain the best way of adding into this directory structure. I just want a new homepage; have done the tutorial and all went well, but this is a different beast.

Have seen a lot of refs out there to url redirects and setting default page=, but havent seen any plain answers telling me exactly where to go.

Any help would be greatly received!

Thanks, Steve

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Tuesday 09 March 2004 4:01:09 am

Hi,

This is drving me nuts...

I have the corporate demo, the root folder is called home. I want to add more content to the home page, more text and graphics etc. Any image or article I create within the root folder then appears within the navigation which i dont want.

I just want to customise the info on the homepage.

Please some pointers would be really appraciated.

Thanks, Steve

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Tuesday 09 March 2004 4:25:45 am

Bard,

Many thanks for your reply.

OK, so I can add IndexPage=/content/view/full/<my-homepage> into site.ini - the issue I've had with this, is because the corporate site navigation autogenerates itself using the folders etc it finds in the root folder - if I create a new article I want to display using this method, it ends up becoming part of the navigation.

Again, with your second point. I'd like to keep the root node as the homepage, and add images or articles ot the homepage that i can then manage and incorporate into this page as i wish... Again, the problem for me is that the navigation autognenrates itself, so any new articles i create in root get indexed...

Is there a way of creating new articles etc that do nt get included in the site navigation without having to hard code the navigation (like you do in the site demo)?

Steve.

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Tuesday 09 March 2004 12:06:00 pm

Hi,

Managed to find a way of gettnig what i wanted!

Have basically hard coded the top level navigation of the corporate site so that I can use the content function - so the links that appear at the top of the page arent generated dynamically, you have to add them (same as the site build demo) - but the subnavigation still runs dynamically...

Hope have explained that OK...

Steve

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk