Hi, I used umbraco a couple of years ago for a few small sites. But have not used it much since. One of the things I never really got a good sense of was how to best organise the content in a site.
Say you have a small site with 10-20 more or less static pages and some news and other list kind of items.
Would you create a root node as your fron page and put the news items in another "folder" underneath this?
- My site - About - Contacts - News - News item 3 - News item 2 - News item 1
About and contacts might have subpages that should display on a secondary navigation, but the news items should not. Would you just hide these using the umbracoNaviHide approach?
Or would you keep the news items in a completely separate root node?
Is there any documentation about content organisation?
Hope you can help or point me in the right direction.
Keeping your news nodes in a separate root node is a solution if you don't have a specific template attached to news items (eg a news detail page/template). If you only iterate your news items in a overview page, then, yes, a separate root node is a good solution.
Otherwise, just go ahead with the umbracoNaviHide property!
Organising content in a site
Hi, I used umbraco a couple of years ago for a few small sites. But have not used it much since. One of the things I never really got a good sense of was how to best organise the content in a site.
Say you have a small site with 10-20 more or less static pages and some news and other list kind of items.
Would you create a root node as your fron page and put the news items in another "folder" underneath this?
- My site
- About
- Contacts
- News
- News item 3
- News item 2
- News item 1
About and contacts might have subpages that should display on a secondary navigation, but the news items should not. Would you just hide these using the umbracoNaviHide approach?
Or would you keep the news items in a completely separate root node?
Is there any documentation about content organisation?
Hope you can help or point me in the right direction.
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Christian
Keeping your news nodes in a separate root node is a solution if you don't have a specific template attached to news items (eg a news detail page/template). If you only iterate your news items in a overview page, then, yes, a separate root node is a good solution.
Otherwise, just go ahead with the umbracoNaviHide property!
Cheers,
/Dirk
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