RE: Side Navigation

How about Joomla?  Or this, we’ll do it on all three!

 

Mary Jackson

Web Designer

Division of Information Technology

Creighton University

 

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

 

From: Burk, Christian M.
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:10 PM
To: Jackson, Mary T.
Cc: Undergrad Website Issues
Subject: Re: Side Navigation

 

Oh, shoot. I forgot.
We need to actually do this site in Drupal.
Is that OK?
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Christian Burk
Creighton University
Undergraduate Admissions
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
christianburk@creighton.edu
(402) 280-2703

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From: "Jackson, Mary T." <MaryJackson@creighton.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:03:36 -0500
To: Christian Burk <christianburk@creighton.edu>
Cc: Undergrad Website Issues <christianleftbehind.website@blogger.com>
Subject: RE: Side Navigation

Yeah that’s doable.  No actually we’ll be using the page/section class to determine the color.
 
What color for prospective students/school counselors/
 
The 24th is the deadline for any little changes (this would be considered little), the 22 for any medium and we’re past the deadline for any major changes.  So warn those who like designing by committee that if they keep speaking up they’ll be copying it all into wordpress………………. I didn’t say that out loud did I?  I tend to say wayyyyy too much out loud.
 
 

Mary Jackson
Web Designer
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
 
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.


From: Burk, Christian M.
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 11:57 AM
To: Jackson, Mary T.
Cc: Undergrad Website Issues
Subject: Side Navigation

Hi, Mary,
So the admissions staff has been looking at the site and one person in particular is concerned that it’s too “blah.”
One of the suggestions she had (and I do think it’s a good one) is that the side menus change color to indicate the section they are in.
I have played around with this idea, and this is not quite right, mind, you but something like this is what I believe she’s asking for (see attached).
It seems like we’d have to have different templates for each section in order to do this, is that right? We’d be extending the class of the “subnav-outer”  with “about_nav” for instance which would change the background color of the div and ul.

Does that make sense?
Am I right about needing to change the template then?

Yours,
Christian
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Christian Burk
Creighton University
Undergraduate Admissions
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
christianburk@creighton.edu
(402) 280-2703