You'll also notice that, unlike all the other levels and pages, the Special Pages category and its contents don't appear in the navigation menu. The Special Pages category will also contain pages dedicated to the Shopping cart and the Members' Area, when these have been created. This page has the title that was given to the blog.
Then, back in Step 2, the Special Pages category appears automatically in the Sitemap with a page for the blog inside it. We set up our blog using the commands in Step 4 - Blog (don't worry – we'll talk about the blog soon). In the first-level menu of our T-shirt store, you'll notice that there is an item we haven't mentioned yet: “TeeX5Blog”. The separators in this case are used to indicate the point in which a new column starts in a multicolumn drop down menu.
In the Sitemap for our T-shirt store, the four menu items “Shop”, “Specials”, “Info” and “Extras” have been created as levels (in the first-level menu), and each one of these levels contains its own series of pages. iwzip file, import it into WebSite X5 Evolution 9, open the project and go to Step 2.
You'll be able to better understand how we created the Sitemap for the Tees X5 Store if you download this project: But if you pay enough attention to the navigation paths you create and logically separate the pages in clear levels, then you are more likely to succeed in creating a well-structured Sitemap. It is very important to plan a well-structured website, and a site is well-structured when the visitor can find the information he is looking for quickly and easily, without getting lost or confused as to where he is.īig websites are obviously going to require more careful planning than smaller ones.
So far we've talked about creating and customizing the graphic template.