FRONT PAGE Design Considerations

Basic: Message

Regular: Page-title, page-elements, image, buttons, message, specials-format, contents-elements, contents-format, columns

Advanced: ID, type, template, Page-title, page-elements, image, image-format, buttons, message, specials, specials-format, contents, contents-elements, contents-format, columns, intro-text

New Fields: ID, type, template, image-format, specials, intro-text

Show examples of no content store, no contents/specials only store, specials/search/contents store, add contents to that, show abstracts, show 2-up ELL, show 1-up with abstracts, show 5-up vertical

Use search bar to break up specials and contents.

You can re-sequence nav-bar on front page. Instead of being called NAV-BUTTONS, it’s just called BUTTONS.

HOME-IMAGE doesn’t show up on homepage for some reason.

If you don’t display NAME, then banner text writes out your name.

If it’s in the CONTENTS field on the front page, then it’s in the CONTENTS when you call them in the nav-bar.

Use of LINKS instead of actual section pages in the contents

Don’t use CONTENTS with icon buttons on your front page if you do lots of chopping. Use SPECIALS and display SPECIALS-AS-CONTENTS and format accordingly.

Format your front page differently from interior pages. Eliminate UP and NEXT. It has to re-draw your nav-bar gif anyway, so make a simpler nav-bar that’s more appropriate for the homepage.

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