Brochure Pages Moved to Root

[leehack]

We are often encouraging people to move all pages within Actinic for easy site management. However, because all brochure pages bar the home page get loaded into the acatalog folder, it often ends up a hindrance to this process. This is particularly annoying when rankings need to be preserved, so you have to start messing with 301's and htaccess.

As you have shown with the home page, you can load a page to root, I think this should be offered as a solution on all brochure pages or maybe even a flag where you specify root or acatalog.

This would provide a better structure for a site, all shop pages could sit within a shop folder (acatalog renamed), all info pages at root and all scripted pages operate from the cgi-bin. This seems to be the basic structure that many sites wishing to move onto Actinic have currently, so I think you should be looking to offer a like for like for the easiest transition possible.

[Duncan Rounding]

I'll certainly second that - but as an option so as to also support upgraded sites.

[leehack]

Definitely agree with that Duncan, it's the same with the acatalog possible rename i guess, the historical sites need to retain their current method, but also offer the new if you want to use it.

[jont]

flag where you specify root or acatalog.

A nice and simple solution that would add to Actinic's claim for superior SEO sites. Add my vote.

[Darren B]

Could not agree more, i have had to setup a redirect after someone in the company added a new page name to the website address for datasheet downloads. Guess what they did it to /datasheets.html (never thought to ask me about it and to be honest i probably would have done this anyway)

Not a major issue but it would have been nice to set this up under Actinic with the choice of directory

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[Mike Hughes]

Yup. Excellent suggestion.

flag where you specify root or acatalog.

This shouldn't be necessary. The location should be based on where they are in the catalogue tree. i.e. just create / drag-drop them where you want them.

Mike

[leehack]

The location should be based on where they are in the catalogue tree. i.e. just create / drag-drop them where you want them.

I'd agree with this if we could create brochure pages and then sub brochure pages, like we do with sections. If we want a structure like that, we currently have to add fragments into sections, which we might want at root level still.

Maybe we need to have the facility for acatalog or root on section pages, alternatively the ability to create brochure page groups. If you have a lot of brochure pages, it can make the content tree very long.

[Mike Hughes]

Did something change this in the past?

I've just looked at my V6 and I can create a brochure page in the root by right clicking the home page icon and going 'new brochure page'.

Does this not work in V8 etc?

Mike

Edit: OK. I take this all back. V6 does the same as V8, etc. Brochure pages are all stuck in the acatalog directory. I thought I had it working with my error page but I guess I must have copied over the one in the root from the acatalog directory.

[leehack]

That still works the same, i am talking about sections and then subsections of that. You only get the option for new brochure page, not new 'sub' brochure page. The solution as you do on your site is to have section pages being used as brochure pages, but this in turn then (with your location choosing folder destination idea) would mean that the pages were still in the acatalog folder as they sit within the shop top.