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Website design

 

JDD Designer is used to integrate the graphical design of the website page types into the JDD.  Each page type is then represented as a Template in the JDD.

Overview 

 

To start work with the JDD Designer, the HTML and CSS for the web site page designs must have been created.

With the page designs in HTML and CSS the JDD Designer is used to create the two design elements of the JDD, the Design and the Template. The underlying graphical appearance of a page is specified in the Design.

Place Holders

On to this graphical underlay, named placeholders are specified which will carry content, either content common across a type of page or content unique to a specific page. The appearance of content in the placeholders is defined in the CSS. Such areas on the page contain menus, page titles, author-derived content etc..

 

Menus

The JDD Design also carries the specification for the appearance of menus – both where they appear on the page and how the individual menu items display in relation to one another in a menu. The Design now acts as the 'stem page' from which you can create one or more Templates.

 

Templates

Template For the page creator, i.e. the person who creates an actual web page, a Template is a pre-defined page for which they supply page-specific content. A Template consists of a Design plus template content, i.e. content that is common to all pages created using this template.

 

In the Templates section of JDD Designer, create one Template for each page type, e.g. section head page, sub-section page, product page etc. and in the Template, supply the specification of content for certain placeholders. Pages built from a particular Template all share the same content in those placeholders. Where no content is supplied for a placeholder, the placeholder will not display.