I'd like your feedback on whether you think this layout works.
I already had a text document with case studies of organisations where I've helped increase a team's skills. Creating a new Section|Category called Case Studies|Teambuilding and a set of articles within it, pasting each case study into an article was easy. The formatting from my Open Office document was preserved with bold headers and bulleted points lists - relief!
I've added a new item to the Main Menu (Menus|Main Menu|New) and was then faced with a choice. The "new menu item" / "edit menu item" screens give you the option as to what kind of page that menu entry creates when clicked.
Category Blog / Section Blog displays the text of the articles up to the "read more" point, which you can put in as you edit the articles. I haven't, though I might. I can choose between single column and multi-column, I can choose how many have full text and how many are just titles and links. I can choose how many case studies are "leader" articles, i.e. are full-width articles above the lower-down, column-formatted ones.
Category List format displays just the list of titles of articles in the category. It's a lot cleaner, so I'm on that for now, pending experimenting with the "read more" business, which I'll blog here when I try it.
I found you can "copy" menu items from one menu to another, so I copied the Case Studies item from Main Menu to Top Menu; this made sure it was definitely the same thing I was creating on each menu. However, now I see there is an "alias" item which appears to allow you to "re-direct" from one to the other. The difference is that you only have one actual copy of the menu item - preventing them getting out of sync and saving space too presumably. I'll be playing with that next and will let you know how it goes.
'Til next time
Dave
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