Operation Manual

30 Setting Up Sites and Pages
• A section is a content category, for example "Gallery", "Products", or
"Contact". The various major sections are typically listed on the site's
Home page in a navigation bar. Ideally, each page on the site belongs
to a particular section. And unless there's only one page in a given
section, the section will have its own main page, which usually serves
as a menu for subsidiary pages.
• The level is the number of steps (i.e., jumps) a given page is removed
from the Home page. The Home page will always reside at Level 1,
normally along with main section menu pages. This allows navigation
bars to work easily and automatically. Pages one step "below" the
section menu pages reside at Level 2, and are considered to be “child”
pages of the "parent" page. For example, a parent Products page
could have two child pages called Product1 and Product2.
In WebPlus, the Site Structure tree (in the Site tab) provides a visual aid that
lets you organize the content on your site into sections and levels. Here's how
the same structure might appear in the WebPlus Site Structure tree:
The Site Structure tree makes it easy to visualize relationships between pages
and lay out your site in a way that makes sense for the content you have to offer.
Of course, a website is truly an interconnected web of pages, and the tree
structure doesn't prevent you from installing links between any two pages. But it
does expose the major pathways within your site—up, down, and sideways.
Logical section/level design makes your site easier to navigate, and WebPlus
makes it simple to create navigation bars that mirror your site structure and
help guide your visitors along those "main roads."