Following the Couch Tutorial, it seems that the top-level pages of a site have to be manually created by the SuperAdmin - and that users can only edit these, or add sub-pages to these, but not 'siblings'.

1) Is it possible to have users create top-level pages in a site - i.e., pages that will show up in the navigation menu? - these pages would obviously use a pre-defined template.

2) Is it possible to create a top-level navigation menu that either automatically recognises the site hierarchy - or if not, then a menu that is editable by the user?

Your guidance is much appreciated.

To do this you would use a clonable template to create your pages. With the pages tag and the variable "k_page_link" you can create your navigation menu. Using dynamic folders you can even create a multi-level hierarchy that automatically generates the navigation menu.

Just for fun, I once created a completely open, multilevel and user generated website from a single Couch template in this way. Take a look at the folder and dynamic folder documentation to get started.

@tim, thank you for the guidance - I will try it out.

I must admit, right now it all still sounds a bit cryptic to me, but I'm sure I can work it out by going through the docs carefully!

Once again, many thanks.

[KK]

@luxlogica, I'd like to add 'Nested Pages' to what Tim suggested. Please see -
http://www.couchcms.com/docs/concepts/n ... maker.html