2.03 version: Create a page
Nam Tran Ybarra @ June 13, 2009
Navigation Series
One of the most important changes in version 2.03 is the way the navigation structured. And one of the benefits is to allow you to use one centralized area on your site to add video, audio & content and drip feed it for your members rather than having it set up on 3 or 4 different module areas.
Warning: this is powerful: the ablility to create page in sequence, drip each page based on membership and timed schedule -this will allow you to schedule (drip feed) your page content from number of days after registration or from a set date. You could create a years worth of content, schedule it all to release weekly or monthly to your paid subscribers.
Part 1: Set Navigation Block
Overview:
By default, after the installation, your memberspeed site’s front end will have one main block on the left and /or the right menu with all links underneath. With 2.03, you now can make any new block you want, add link to any block, move and change them any time you want. This new feature makes it easy to navigate your site content and best of all it is a snap to do.
Default navigation: Block’s name : Main Menu with all links underneath
2.03 Navigation with added new blocks
So first Go to navigation>>>> Add Group
Make it ACTIVE. To change position , edit the RANK number
Part 2: Add a Link category to Group
Now click on Add Link Category>>>Give it a name and assign it to a Group
Click on Manage Link Category and make it ACTIVE
Part 3: Create a page: Add page to Link category
Important concept:
+ A Link category belongs to a Group ( Group= navigation block/heading) as described in part 1&2
+ You can add as many pages as you want to a link category. One page will be a default page and the other pages can be selected to link to the default page to be shown in sequense
+ Group and Link category only be visible on front end if both are active and there is a page attached to a link category
+ Each page can be displayed to a selected membership, on a time set schedule
Click on CREATE PAGE then select a LINK CATEGORY where the page should be assigned to.
Fill in other info as well
Important: video/audio/product accessible date will overwrite the page accessible date here.
Example: if in video manager, you set a video to be accessible on July 7th, while the page is set to be accessible on June 29th, your user will see this page on June 29th but won’t see the video until July 7th.
Add as many pages you want, then click on MANAGE LIST PAGES
To be updated
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts
Tags: 03.Navigation, 2.03, create a new page, navigation block, navigation headingRelated posts
Filed under: 03.Navigation
How do we get our MS sites indexed with Google and Yahoo ?
Also it would be helpful… to instruct on the best way to build a MS site to get good SEO ranking
The On-page factors are ALL there. You just need to take care with your titles and meta-descriptions. Simply go to Google an type in site:www.yourdomain.com to see how effective you are at getting indexed for what you want. To get ranked, simply attract as many links back into as many of these pages as you can from quality sites. OR set up a blog like mine and start controlling your own internal links which also carry a degree of Google juice!