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    • Basic Approach to "Conventional" Site

    Posted by commania

    (newbie alert)

    In order to make a Tikiwiki site that looks like a "conventional" web site, do I start with a Wiki inside Tikiwiki, and then sort of lock it down, as far as edit privileges, add menus, customize templates and theme, and so on?

    Or is there another CMS function in Tikiwiki that's used to build the more conventional set of (mostly) hierarchically organized web pages that would be found in the typical brochure/non-CMS site.

    Any help with this would be appreciated.

    Thanks!

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    Probably using wiki pages is the best approach, as this provides the most flexibility and enables something like a "conventional" web site. Some differences are that there's no directory hierarchy since a wiki hierarchy is flat, and page names are used in urls.

    Of course you can make all or any part of your wiki pages editable by site admin or some group of registered users only, so the edit link, etc. won't appear to anonymous visitors, and only authorized users can create and edit pages.

    Navigation is an important thing to figure out. One way is to use wiki structuresQuestion to organize pages. This creates a hierarchy in terms of page organization and can place navigation "breadcrumbs" at the top of pages that are members of the structure.

    CategoriesQuestion can also be used to group site objects, and now in Tiki 2 you can also tag pages.

    -- Gary


    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties

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    >Or is there another CMS function in Tiki that's used to build the more conventional set of (mostly) hierarchically organized web pages that would be found in the typical brochure/non-CMS site.
    >

    In addition to Gary's suggestion of structuresQuestion and categoriesQuestion, you can also use tagsQuestion for navigation.

    Remember there lots of other ways to "navigate":

    • Using backlinks
    • Displaying category objects and paths.
    • Using the breadcrumb option


    HTH,

    -RickQuestion
    Need more help? Try TikiWiki for Dummies SmartiesQuestion or read my Tiki Blog or visit my UserPage