Folders

Your site’s folder structure works in the same way as the folder structure on a computer’s hard-drive, but it is much more important because it controls the buttons used by patients to navigate around your site.

Every site is set up with a Home folder which contains your site’s home page and which cannot be deleted or modified.

Within Home, you can create as many new folders as you like by clicking the New sub-folder link. Each will generate a button on the button-bar automatically when your site is viewed.

It will also generate a set of links in the Folders box on the Site Management System home page, which you can click to move into the folder, edit its properties or delete it.

Within each new folder, you can create as many new sub-folders as you like, and you can continue down the levels, making your site structure as simple or as complex as you wish - though we advise against over-elaborate structures which tend to confuse site visitors.

Button bar behaviour

Everything has been done to automate the behaviour of your site, making it as ’intelligent’ as possible. When a visitor to your site clicks a button to move into a new area of your site (represented in the Management System by a folder), one of two things will happen to the button bar:

• If the new folder has sub-folders, the button-bar will change to show a button for each of these
• If not, it will continue to show buttons for folders at the same leve as the folder just entered

Folder home pages

Every folder must have a home page - the one that is displayed when a patient clicks the button for the folder. If you have created a home page, it will be displayed. If not, the system will generate one ’on the fly’.

If a folder has a home page, its links in the Folders box will include one to Remove home page. (You can make any page its folder’s home page by clicking a link in the Pages box.)

Find out more about home pages....