# My Overall Site Goal

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-overall-site-goal/70629>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [October 1, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-overall-site-goal/70629 "2006-10-01T03:00:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![dzo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dzo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dzo)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-overall-site-goal/70629/1 "2006-10-01T03:00:39Z")

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I thought I would create a thread specifically for myself but, that  
might be able to help other too, this one will have bunch of different  
things in it but, overall it’s what I need to get done for my site.

# Navigation / Sub-menus

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I need a submenu system set up so that it look like this:

# Main Page: [domain.com/](http://domain.com/)

Home / Section 1 / Section 2 / Section 3

These pages will also be in the “header” so that they will be universal  
horizontal across the site layout.

# Section Page: [About Us | Domain.com](http://domain.com/about/)

- Overview
- Page 1
- Page 2
- Page 3

# Normal Page: [domain.com/about/the-site/page](http://domain.com/about/the-site/page)

- Parent Page Title
- Overview
- Page 1
- Page 2
- Page 3

I will have breadcrumbs so if we go like 5 levels deep you can still get  
to the 3rd level by clicking on the breadcrumb page.

In addition however, I only want pages below the curent page/section to  
show up in the submenu but, just directly below and not all of the  
pages, so no grandchildren(sub-page), only children pages.

Essentially the idea is to have the links generated in such a way that  
it’s intuitive to go down a level to a sub-page (page) or up a level  
back to the page or even to the parent/grandparent (section).

I hope I wasn’t confusing.

# Blogging

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# Tags / Categories

I think this was addressed but only in passing, someone said a patch was  
made but, I don’t know how it functions since i didn’t add the patch.

However, how I envision it working is like in Wordpress or Textpatten,  
where it’s in a select form or a drop-down from where you can choose  
single, multiple or even sub-categories depending on the topic of the  
post.

So the URL schema could become something more organized into something  
like:

[domain.com/flowers/orchids/type-of-orchid/post-title](http://domain.com/flowers/orchids/type-of-orchid/post-title)

rather than URLs based on date, which seems to be the defacto format. I  
don’t know if this conflict it would cause with the normal URLs to pages  
but, I think it would be a different file that would handle the blog vs  
pages

index.rb → blog.rb or page.rb depending on the request. All the blog  
posts could be “archived” in “/blog” or “/archive” depending on your  
needs. It might be able to be truncated with .htaccess for those that  
have it.

# Comments

I am a big fan of comments for posts but, only on a seperate page from  
the post itself, I don’t like to see comments on the same page, it kind  
of irritates me cause I don’t like to wait for the page to load because  
someone writes 100 comments on the same page. So:

[domain.com/post-title/comments/](http://domain.com/post-title/comments/) ← seperate comments page from post.

Other than that I can’t think of anything but, if I do i’ll make another  
post in this thread.