Hello Forum!

I started to work through couch documentation, because I missed to learn some things as I worked on simple projects till now, and I feel very overwhelmed in the moment. So if anyone could give me a hint, what couch-concepts I should use (and learn) to achieve what I want , I will be very thankful.

Here is the problem I want to solve:
I want to adapt an existing site for couch. The site has 3 levels.
The index site consist of image-links (that I thought to treat as folders ?!) and each link leads to another site with another 3 (Image) links that than lead to a single page each.

I would like that my client is able to add herself menu items later on, both on the start page and on the 2nd-level pages.
That means, if she adds a link item on the start page, she should be able to add related new items on the next level page and finally to work on each single page (add text and images).

How could that be done? Through folders or thought nested pages? Or something else?

I send also a drawing of the site hierarchy. The first big rectangle on the left is all the index page with existing four links, that are images.

thanks in advance

Tanja

[KK]

Hi Tanja,

You mentioned that the site is an existing one.
Could you please give us a link to it?
Or if it is not online, maybe get us its HTML version.

I'll really have to take a look at it and study it to propose a solution.

Thanks

Hi Kamran!

Thanks!

This is the link:


I just started to read about nested pages but I am not sure if that will be the solution.

Tanja

[KK]

Hi Tanja,

Thanks for the link.
I had a look and it seems to be a fairly straightforward site to build.

As always, there could be several ways of building the site in Couch - we could use the regular folders/pages structure or the nested-pages or even relations/pages.
However, I think you'll find the folders/pages easier as you (probably) must have already used those in earlier projects.

The way I see it - we can use a cloned template, create cloned pages out of it and place those pages in folders.

The index page (home-view) will list the folders mentioned above - this will be the 'first level'.
Clicking on any of the folders will lead the 'folder-view' where we'll list (show thumbnails) of the pages contained in that folder - this will be the 'second level'.
Finally. clicking on any of the pages thumbnails will lead to the 'page-view' of the page itself - this is the 'third-level'.

One little complexity in the site is that not all 'folders' have multiple pages i.e. some folders actually have only one page. In such cases, the 'folder-view' instead of listing the thumbnail of the sole page, actually shows the whole page.
This can be easily pulled off using some conditional code.

So, nothing that you won't be able to do
Do let me know if something is unclear.

Thanks.

Hello Kamran!

Thanks a lot for taking a look at the site and explaining the procedure and structure!
I think I understand what you say and will try it out.

Thanks for the best support ever!!!!!! And best CMS ever


Tanja