Some Design Concepts
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Well, I helped instigate/propagate some documentation threads earlier today and it got me thinking on some design issues.
I worked on a site (www.tomsaircraft.com)earlier this year and I did some advanced forms. We utilized tabs with page reloads going to a secondary, tertiary and so forth. We used a couple of queries for posting of data and display of data.
Would it make sense to create a single page with this effect or iframe that sort of data structure? It certainly isn't that hard to create pages that look like that using a software like DW CS3 or CS4. The only real issue I believe it may present is when it creates its own folders for JS/CSS. This can be overcome by re-writing the paths.
Do you folks think this would be a right path of doing something like this or is there a better way with C5?
thanks
Bill
I worked on a site (www.tomsaircraft.com)earlier this year and I did some advanced forms. We utilized tabs with page reloads going to a secondary, tertiary and so forth. We used a couple of queries for posting of data and display of data.
Would it make sense to create a single page with this effect or iframe that sort of data structure? It certainly isn't that hard to create pages that look like that using a software like DW CS3 or CS4. The only real issue I believe it may present is when it creates its own folders for JS/CSS. This can be overcome by re-writing the paths.
Do you folks think this would be a right path of doing something like this or is there a better way with C5?
thanks
Bill
yes, you should totally use single pages for this.. either one with a mode/switch type statement in it, or several that point to one another.
Thanks Frz, thought that might be it. So let me see if I am finally starting to get a grip on this. Even though I have a theme I am using, I can insert blocks or an iframe for more complex functionality (ie, tabbed php page) and I am assuming that I could even load new tables into the C5 database or even use an external db for complicate HR calls.
Am I goin in the right direction?
Am I goin in the right direction?
you can make a single page from the dasbhoard. it will follow the theme, looking at default.php (i believe).
it is then accessible off the root, and is a easy way to deal with more "appy" problems.. we use them for the login and register pages out of the box.
search the developer docs about em.
it is then accessible off the root, and is a easy way to deal with more "appy" problems.. we use them for the login and register pages out of the box.
search the developer docs about em.
