I've attached a
pattern file for a site designed by Bryan Bell,
for Clark Venable. It's intended to be generic and simple, and fairly easy
to customize.
The only page it includes is a Weblog II page as the site's home page.
So, you'll want to apply to a site that already has the other pages.
When installing the pattern on your (test) site, install everything in
the pattern. After it's done, you'll need to make a few tweaks:
-
The main page template assumes that message 1 holds your navbar. If
that's not true, either edit the #navbar macro in the template, or
update message 1.
-
The navbar message (see #1) should be a list of links wrapped with
<li> tags (but without the
<ul> tags), like this:
<li><a href="something">Something</a></li>
<li><a href="linking">Another</a></li>
<li><a href="whatever">La la la</a></li>
(The wizard will eventually be able to handle this kind of thing
for you, but can't right now.)
-
Edit the Conversation Prefs (in the admin area). Click on
"Discussion Group". Set the Message Edit Template to "msgEdit" and the
Message View Template to "msgView". (Again, once the wizards know how
to handle site preferences, you won't have to do this manually.)
-
(Added later...)
Edit your Conversation's preferences in the admin area, go to the "Web
Server" prefs, and then the "Member Links" tab.
Once you're there, make the Member Links and Guest Links into lists.
Something like this should be fine:
For Guests:
<h3>Guests</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<!--#signupURL-->">Sign Up</a></li>
<li><a href="<!--#logonURL-->">Log On</a></li>
</ul>
For Members:
<h3>Members</h3>
<ul>
<li>Logged in as:
<br />
<!--#memberName link="true"--></li>
<li><a href="<!--#siteUrl-->members/settings/">Your Account</a></li>
<li><a href="<!--#logoffURL-->">Log Off</a></li>
</ul>
Any problems?
The one problem you *might* run into is that not every site is
allowed to create a Weblog II page.
So here's a deal: if you want to test this pattern feature, I'll activate
Weblog II for you if you don't already have it.
Seth
