The goal of this tutorial is to help you build a web site using Frontier with a navigation menu. Some people refer to this as a "standard web site", in that many web sites have some type of menu to navigate through the site. Here are some examples:
The Frontier 5 site:
My web site at work:
Matt Neuburg's "typical" web site:
In fact, I used Matt Neuburg's site to learn how to create this type of web site. Frontier is very well suited to producing this type of web site, and it's not hard once you know the steps to follow.
Here is an overview of the steps that you will go through in this tutorial to create your own "standard" site:
- Decide what will be the major areas of the site.
- Create the table for your site in your Frontier root, giving it a name, and creating the site pages.
- Building the #glossary table to provide page references to Frontier for rendering the site.
- Building the #nextPrev table to get a list of the wp texts in the site table.
- Filling in the entries in the #ftpSite table to tell Frontier where to store the rendered pages.
- Setting up the template for the site (giving the "look" to the web site).
- Setting up the #tools table (this will have some scripts to create the navigation menu and its links to the other pages).
- Building and releasing your site.
The template and tools sections are the key to making the standard web site (creating the "look" and creating the navigation menu).
Let's start by talking about how to Organize Your Material.
Page 1: Description of A Standard Web Site
Page 2: Organize Your Material
Page 3: Create Site Table
Page 4: Glossary Table Work
Page 5: nextPrev Table Work
Page 6: ftpSite Table Work
Page 7: Template Work
Page 8: Tools Table Work
Page 9: Build and Release!
Page 10: Wrap Up
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