Adding and defining sections

A section is a hierarchy of design pages, usually a subtree, that is part of a larger hierarchy. The section and its children are descendents of some other object. You treat a section as a unit to simplify file management. The pages in a section have the same base filename, and you can put them in the same folder and create them using the same template or stationery. Sections can contain other sections (subsections) as well as pages.

The parent page for a section or subsection is called its section page. The filename for a newly created section page is index.html, unless you have changed the home page filename in the site preferences. Section pages are displayed with boldface labels and the section icon (if diagram objects appear as icons).

To add and define a section:

1. Drag a Section icon from the Diagram set of the Object palette to the design view. This creates a section page.
2. If necessary, do one or both of the following in the Page tab of the Section Inspector:
• Enter a design name for the page in the Name text box. This name appears in the design view as the label for the page only if Design Name is selected in the Display tab of the View palette. Otherwise the label is its filename or page title. (See Changing the display of design views.)
• Change the default page title from Welcome to GoLive 6.

Note: For a section page, don't use the Target Dir option on the Page tab. You set the folder for the page and its children in the Section tab. Also, you probably don't need to change the default filename for the section page. Even if the home page for the site has the same filename, the two files have different paths because the section has its own folder.

3. In the Section tab of the Section Inspector, do any of the following:
• Enter a base filename for the child pages you will place in the section and their descendents. The page filenames will be provided automatically. For example, if you enter the base filename Hiking, the page filenames will be Hiking.html, Hiking1.html, Hiking 2.html, and so on.
• Specify a target folder for the section page, the child pages in the section, and their descendents. When you submit the diagram, the pages will be placed in this folder. The target folder should be a subfolder of the root folder, either an existing subfolder or a new one that will be created when you submit the diagram. For example, you might specify the folder Recreation/Hiking for the pages in the hiking section of a recreation site. If you don't specify a target folder, the folder used is either the root folder or the folder for generated items specified in Site preferences.
• Specify a template or stationery for the pages.
4. If you want to add child pages to the section page at this time, do both of the following:
• Choose the types of parent and sibling links to generate between the section page and its children. (See Adding empty pages and pending links to a hierarchy.)
• In the Count text box, enter the number of child pages to add to the section page.
5. Click Create New Pages.