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Navigation (Pages)

A website is actually collection of web-pages. Making a page is a very crucial feature in every common-used CMS. Usually, a website has a navigation so that a user can jump among pages.

To create, add, edit, and delete navigation or pages you can use CMS Management | Navigation Management

Page has several common properties including:

• Navigation Code (required, and should be unique)

  This is the identifier of a page/navigation.

• Navigation Title This will be appeared in Navigation Menu

• Page Title

  The title of the page. It will be appeared in your browser's tab. This is also useful for SEO, so it is recommended to give an appropriate title to make your website search-engine friendly.

• Page Keyword

  Some old web-crawler still use meta tag. This is not very useful now a day, since several search engine use title and page content to do crawl activities.

• Authorization

  One of No-CMS best feature is page authorization. You have full control of what page can be accessed by certain user group. This can be easily done by changing “authorization” value of a page in Navigation management. Four authorization type is provided for this purpose: Everyone, authenticated, unauthenticated and authorized (See Authorization in basic concepts section). If you choose authorized, you should also provide user-group.

• Default Theme

  Every page can has custom theme different to theme choosen on change theme menu. To do this, you can choose an appropriate “Default Theme”. This will overwrite No-CMS default theme setting. Normally you can access a page by using navigation menu. It is natural to have some grouped pages. You can change “Navigation Parent Code” to make a page nested in another page.

• Static

  If activated, your page will be static, otherwise it will be dynamic. Here is the difference between those two:

  • Static page

    Static pages are only contains of HTML and CSS without any need of server-side programming. This is the easiest one to create. You can create new static page without even know any programming knowledge. If you are already familiar with MS word, Libre-Office write or any word-processor program, then you already have everything to make static page. To make a new static page, you need to change the activate “static” option. Once you activate static option, a word-editor-like input will be appeared. Do your editing there.

  • Dynamic page

    Dynamic pages are more than just static page. There are some server-side programming involved. A normal user might don't need to mess up with this. Navigation Management, user management and group management are some example of dynamic page. When you deactivate static option, you will be asked for the URL.

Quicklinks

As your application grow, some frequently accessed page might be burried down in the navigation hierarchy. No-CMS has quicklink to solve such a problem. To create and delete quicklink, you can access CMS Management | Quicklink Management

Tutorial

Below is a bit tutorial about how to make your own page, sub-page & quicklink:

• Login to No-CMS with your admin user.
• Open Complete Menu | CMS Management | Navigation Management or CMS Management | Navigation Management, you will be able to see several navigation menu. Every navigation (page) can has several children-page.
• Add a new page by clicking Add Navigation (Page)
• Set Navigation Code into new_page
• Set Navigation Title into My Page
• Set Page Title into My First Page
• Set Static into active
• Set Static Content into Hello World !!!
• Set Authorization into Everyone
• Click Save and Go Back to List

You can access your new page by clicking Complete Menu | My Page. This new page can be accessed by Everyone.

No-CMS has several authorization type:

• Everyone: Can be accessed by all visitor.
• Unauthenticated: Can only be accessed by not currently login visitor.
• Authenticated: Can only be accessed by already login visitor
• Authorized: Can only be accessed by already login visitor who is also member of certain group

Let's add another page as sub-page:

• Open Complete Menu | CMS Management | Navigation Management or CMS Management | Navigation Management
• Add a new page by clicking Add Navigation (Page)
• Set Navigation Code into new_subpage
• Set Parent into new_page (Navigation Code of our previous page)
• Set Navigation Title into My Subpage
• Set Page Title into My Second Page
• Set Static into active
• Set Static Content into Great, you made it !!!
• Set Authorization into Everyone
• Click Save and Go Back to List

You can access this page by clicking Complete Menu | My Page | My Subpage

PS: So far you have learn how to make static page. However, there is another page type called dynamic page. To make a dynamic page, you must set static into inactive and fill the url with coresponding url (module_name/controller_name/function_name). If you are not familiar with CodeIgniter and HMVC extension, please look for CodeIgniter documentation or HMVC extension documentation first.

Now let's make a quick link:

• Open Complete Menu | CMS Management | Quick Link Management or CMS Management | Quick Link Management
• Add new quick link by clicking Add Quick Link
• Set Navigation Code into new_subpage
• Click Save and Go Back to List

PS: Avoid temptation to make too many quicklink

Now, you can access new_subpage directly.