Overview
| Segue allows for both hierarchical and associative organization of content. The hierarchical organization, though limited in this version, allows creators to give their content depth and focus, challenging them to distribute their ideas into a taxonomy of sections and pages. |
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This hierarchical organization is complemented by an associative system that allows creators (and editors) to associate any given content block with multiple tags much like del.ico.us and Flickr. These categories/tags are displayed along with the content block they are associated with and become links to all content block that share that category/tag. A list of all categories/tags can also be displayed in the site sidebars.
Hierachical Organization
The current version of Segue supports a three level navigational structure. This
means that a given site can be organized into sections each of
which can contain any number of pages. Pages in turn can contain any
number of independent timestamped content blocks (text, images, file
downloads) or can be content themselves. The content blocks of any given page can be sorted by recent first or
recent last, or can be sorted by user’s who added or edited them,
sorted alphabetically or sorted by some custom ordering (see: Features > Weblogs).
Segue sections and pages are mapped to a navigational layout to provide a clear and consistent context. All sections of a site can be displayed horizontally across the top and bottom of a site or vertically in the left sidebar. Segue pages can be displayed in either the left or right sidebar of the site and can be content themselves or RSS feeds or dynamic lists of site categories or participants or containers for other content blocks. If the site’s sections are displayed in the left sidebar, then the pages of any given section appear directly below the section to which they belong.
Associative Organization
In addition to hierarchical organization of content, Segue also allows creators (and editors) to organize content into multiple categories which can then be aggregated. This allows creators to make associations between content across hierarchically organized sections and pages.
Reorganization
All content in Segue can be moved or copied to different nodes in the site hierarchy or to nodes in any other site. Authorization to do so is determined by any given user’s roles and permission.
Using Pages and Sections
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