Operation Manual

34 | Developing Sites and Pages
• Best of all, a WebPlus navigation element updates dynamically if you
subsequently alter page names or relationships, or cut/paste the navbar to
another page. For example, "Story 1" above is just a placeholder for an
actual title—common practice when designing a site before all the
intended content is in place. Once we have the actual story, suppose we
rename that page to "Smith Appointed to Board of Directors"... the navbar
would instantly reflect the change!
Understanding pages and master pages
Pages are the basic unit of Web design. WebPlus lets you structure your site’s
content by arranging pages into a branching "tree," which in turn helps visitors
navigate through the site. Looking at individual pages from a design
standpoint, each WebPlus page has a "foreground" page layer and a
"background" master page layer.
Master pages are part of the structure of your WebPlus project, and provide a
flexible way to store background elements that you would like to appear on
more than one page—for example a logo, background, border design, or even
a navigation element. The key concept here is that a particular master page is
typically shared by multiple pages, as illustrated below. By placing a design
element on a master page and then assigning several pages to use that master
page, you ensure that all the pages incorporate that element. Of course, each
individual page can have its own elements.