DFC: templates for Navigation options

There are several options you can use for navigation in your site.  You can find descriptions of these and images of what they look like in the "Pages" section of your dashboard. Look under the "Pages" section and click on "All Pages" . Now look for pages that are called "Template #......." These are unpublished "draft" entries that only the owner of the site can see when they are in the dashboard.

Each template has an image of what a navigation model would look like. There are instructions on how you can use each  model and suggestions as to how a couple models could be combined if desired.  The model that is used on your site ( the requested model called "big button link") is also there so that if you change the style but want to revert to the old style you can. The requested model is labeled as "Template #5 Navigation: Big Button Link".

Out of all of the models the least complex is "Template #2: Exposed menu". This Template requires one change and to add a new image the owner to the site need only create a new page or post for the material.

The second most simple model is the "The Fake Sidebar" model . This model pushes the video right and leaves "prev" and "next" arrows below left. A menu for the three sections of the portfolio goes right. In the model I've provided there is room to expand the size of the video. The alignment of the arrows can be adjusted by changing the margin of the left most arrow. Remove the arrows and you will have jut a sidebar model for navigation that does not need to be updated when you add a new image.

The most manual is "Template #3: Arrows and Growing Menu". Template #3 is also the most transparent model as the code used to create it is very simple; that is to say it is the slow but steady way.


Remember that with all models you will need to add a thumbnail to the main pages of films, commercials, and showreels that links back to the new individual page you create for your content.

Above: Navigation #1: text and image

Above: Navigation #2: Exposed menu

Above: Navigation option #3: the All Image option

                                          Above: Navigation option #4: fake sidebar

Above: Navigation option #5: the Big Button Link w/ all thumbs 

at bottom as one, big button. This is the design requested for the site.