Webshop and CMS module - Structure of a Web Page
Each page published on the web from within Standard ERP will be built up from various components. This page describes those components in outline.
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When starting to build your website, it is important to have a good idea of what you want it to look like in the end. This allows you to have something to work towards rather than blindly making it up as you go along. A recommendation would be to get a graphic designer to generate a mock up of the main pages and structure so you have the look and feel of what you want to achieve from the beginning. A design would consist of a list of HTML pages related to stylesheet files provided as a package.
Each individual web page will consist of the following components, each of which is represented by a separate register in Standard ERP:
- A Structure (also known as a Node).
A Structure or Node has two purposes:
- It is where you will define the type of the page (e.g. static text page, redirect page, webshop app, shopping basket, etc).
- It is where you will define the URL of a page.
Note: you will use the Structure register to build this component of each web page. The terms "Structure", "Web Structure" and "Node" in the application and in this documentation all refer to records in the Structure register and are interchangeable.
- A Page.
Each Structure or Node will be connected to a single Page. The Page is essentially a list of the Elements that will appear on the page.
Note: The terms "Page" and "Web Page" in the application and in this documentation both refer to records in the Page register and are interchangeable. The terms "page" and "web page" (lowercase) refer more generally to a page in a browser i.e. it is what you will construct using a Structure, a Page, one or more Elements and text, images and other content.
- One or more Elements.
An Element is a place-holder or container for a piece of text, an image or other content. In HTML terms, an Element is a <div>.
- Each Element will contain text, images and other content. For a static web page, you will usually connect an Element to a record in the Translation register that contains the text and images. For other web pages (for example, customer registration or forgotten password pages), the content of Element will be provided from within Standard ERP.
Please follow the links in each point for more details about each register, and
here for details about building a web page.
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