One reason that I would go for the top structure is to make things less confusing for content editors. If you use the home node as the top level of your site you are able to restrict the content editors to only being able to add content only as defined by the structure assigned in documnet types i.e. top level pages can only be added if their document type is allowed under the home node.
If all your top level pages are directly under the root, rather than the home node, content editors will have permission to add content nodes based on any document type which could get very confusing.
The first one is much better w/ respect to supporting more than one site in the same installation, whereas the second one becomes a royal mess when you (eventually) need to do a second version (whether that being language-based or mobile, other type).
Structure of content of a site
Hello everybody!
home
- about
-products
-contact
home
about
products
contact
Are there differences between the two structure? Why every site that i have seen uses the first?
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I have a colleague who argues the same point!
One reason that I would go for the top structure is to make things less confusing for content editors. If you use the home node as the top level of your site you are able to restrict the content editors to only being able to add content only as defined by the structure assigned in documnet types i.e. top level pages can only be added if their document type is allowed under the home node.
If all your top level pages are directly under the root, rather than the home node, content editors will have permission to add content nodes based on any document type which could get very confusing.
Hi Fabio,
The first one is much better w/ respect to supporting more than one site in the same installation, whereas the second one becomes a royal mess when you (eventually) need to do a second version (whether that being language-based or mobile, other type).
/Chriztian
Thank you guys!
Sorry for (maybe) a supid question. I've the followiong structure:
IT
Home
EN
Home
How can i show Home under IT when a user digit the address of the site?
You could add a hostname in Umbraco. Right click on the "IT" node and click on "Manage hostnames"
Also I love this blog post by Sebastiaan for the "ultimate" site structure: http://cultiv.nl/blog/2010/12/19/tip-of-the-week-the-ultimate-site-structure-setup/
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