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[bluespro]

I have a question? I am new to cms and php, and I do all my web design in dreamweaver. I am trying to find out if I am suppose to set my site map in dreamweaver to index.php in the etomite site as my home page.

Thanks, Mike

[cathode]

I'd recommend just building the template in Dreamweaver, then use Etomite to set up the rest of the site and handle all of the menus. There is a nice sitemap snippet that will automatically generate a sitemap for you.

[bluespro]

Now I am at a loss. I am trying to figure out where to embed a snippet. Maybe I should be more clear on what I am trying to do. I have this web site with a Flash header with a navbar embeded in the movie. I know how to write the actionscript for the url for each page. I also have navigation in the footer of the page. This is where I need help. I need to find out where to put the snippet "ListSiteMap" in my code. If anyone wants to view the home page to get a idea of what I am doing here is the URL: http://topshotspoolanddarts.com/etomite061...0614/?z=manprev

[Ralph]

Most of this information is covered in the documentation located on this site... But the best way to learn Etomite, however, is to simply play with it a bit before you try to dive right in and attempt to create a production site right from the start... You just might find that you can save yourself a lot of work by taking advantage of Etomites capabilities - but you need to know those capabilities first...

[Cris D.]

Before I started with Etomite I was using Flash navigation. However, although it can be manually edited to make navigation changes, every time you change the folder structure or re-name/move pages you need to update your flash file to edit, save, re-name (to overwrite users browsers cache) re-publish.
Etomite looks after all this automatically.

Flash is good for a site that has few or no navigation changes.

I was not able to integrate snippets with the action script because of the need to export it as a SWF which essentially locks in the url values instead of them being created dynamically.

IF anyone else has overcome this I would love to hear.

[Dean]

I thought SWF had the ability of importing .txt files etc to be used as navigation?

Theoretically you could get etomite to export the navigation to a dynamic file which the flash would think was a static file...

[Cris D.]

Well that's a new (and exciting) development in Action Script 3.
Dean, you are right flash can now use server files to populate the movie by using the URLLoader.
That is way cool. All the funky features of Flash AND Etomite!

[-Ed-]

That is way cool. All the funky features of Flash AND Etomite!

So what's keeping you from showing something ???

[Cris D.]

Just a little task of writing the Etomite navigation to a .txt or (preferably) an XML file.
Has anyone else already got that written?

Once you have a dynamic XML file, it's just a case of importing the file and writing the ActionScript to generate the urls (this would be the tricky part).

Adobe References:
ActionScript3 working with external data.
Reading external XML documents with swf.
Can it be done in under an hour Ed? Probably not, can it be done without sweating? Probably

I don't want to take this thread off topic (I hope bluespro has his question answered).

But I am going to start writing a snippet that displays the Etomite site's navigation as an XML doc (from inside an XML template).
I am imagining something along the lines of adapting a ListSiteMenu to output an XML doc instead of a <ul> and using <root><parent><child[n]><children[n]> structure as lables.
This would also pave the way for PDA and mobile phone navigation integration.
Comments? Have I missed anything obviously important?

[-Ed-]

Can it be done in under an hour Ed? Probably not,

can it be done without sweating? Probably

I always sweat!!

I don't want to take this thread off topic (I hope bluespro has his question answered).

But I am going to start writing a snippet that displays the Etomite site's navigation as an XML doc (from inside an XML template).
I am imagining something along the lines of adapting a ListSiteMenu to output an XML doc instead of a <ul> and using <root><parent><child[n]><children[n]> structure as lables.
This would also pave the way for PDA and mobile phone navigation integration.
Comments? Have I missed anything obviously important?

In case you need help, just let me know, I' ve got test systems ready to test.

I've just got my Flash Professional CS3 in the mail Friday, so this could be fun to play with..

"Can it be done in under an hour", " Of course it can be done in under an hour.."
"Will it work ?", no comment..."

Edited by Ed Headset, 23 September 2007 - 08:12 PM.

[Cris D.]

As Dean PM'd me, the googlesitemap is probably all you need as a xml file (at least to start with).

I only have access to ActionScript2 at the moment and won't be able to get 3 for another 4-6 weeks, so your on your own at the moment Ed (lucky bugga).

So how long until you have something to show us?

[-Ed-]

long until you have something to show us?

First of all I have to find out how it works, I'm not good with flash

Christmas 2008 ??

Edited by Ed Headset, 24 September 2007 - 09:13 AM.