The section editor allows users with administrator or webmaster privileges to create and edit sections and subsections for your website.

Like sections of a newspaper or chapters of a book, website sections allow you to organize the content of your site into topic areas that help your visitors quickly find the information they need. When you create articles with Big Medium, you assign each article to one or more sections of the site, and Big Medium automatically builds the article in that section.

The section editor is where you add and edit sections for your website. Here, users with webmaster or administrator accounts can:

• Create or delete main sections and subsections.
• Update html templates for the homepage, main sections and subsections.
• Update announcements for the homepage, main section and subsection.
• Update graphics for your website's navigation bars.
• Change the display order of sections and subsections in your website's navigation bars.

To use the section editor, users with webmaster or administrator privileges can click "Section Editor" under "Templates" in the left-column menu of the Big Medium control panel.

Edit Homepage

Click the "Edit Homepage" link in the main page of the section editor to update the homepage template, metadata, announcement text or navigation images.

New Main Section

Click the "New Main Section" link in the main page of the section editor to create a new main section for your website. (If you would like to add a subsection to an existing main section, click the "New subsection" link in that section's panel of the section editor).

After you click the "New Main Section" link, Big Medium presents a fresh settings page for the new section.

Edit Main Section Order

Click this link to adjust the display order of the main sections on your website. This affects the order in which sections appear in navigation links generated by Big Medium. For more information, see the help page for reordering sections.

Section List

The main page of the section editor lists all of your site's sections and subsections. Each section is displayed within its own panel in the Big Medium control panel, along with its subsections. Each main section panel offers four options for editing that main section.

• Settings. This link takes you to the section settings page for the main section.
• New subsection. This link takes you to a settings page to create a new subsection within this section.
• Rearrange subsections. This link is displayed only when the main section has subsections and takes you to a page that allows you to change the display order for subsections.
• Delete section. Clicking this link takes you to a confirmation page asking if you really want to delete the section. After you confirm, Big Medium permanently removes the section, its subsections and all included articles. Be careful! Deleting a section (or subsection) cannot be undone.

Subsections

Beyond organizing content into main content sections, many sites go a step further, dividing one or more main sections into subsections. The sports section of a news site, for example, might have subsections for various sports: football, baseball, basketball, etc. In this example, going to the sports section's main page would display the most recent articles from all of its subsections, while going to the football subsection would display all of the site's articles about football.

In the section editor, the panel for each main section includes a table listing all of the section's subsections, if any have been created. These subsection tables display the following information:

• Delete. To delete a subsection, click its delete checkbox, then click the "Update Menu" button at the bottom of the page. Clicking this link takes you to a confirmation page asking you if you really want to delete the selected subsection(s). Be careful! If you confirm the deletion, the subsection and all articles assigned to it will be permanently removed from the site. This cannot be undone.
• Subsection. The name of the subsection. Clicking this link allows you to edit its settings (for more info, see the help page for section settings).
• Slug. The slug for this subsection. The slug is a custom directory name given to a section to use in URLs and file storage.
• Status. This indicates whether a subsection is active or not. "On" indicates that the subsection is active on your site; the subsection appears in navigation elements, and articles in that subsection are available to your site's visitors. "Off" indicates that the subsection is not available to your site's visitors. Alias sections are also indicated in this column.
• HTML. This indicates whether the subsection has its own custom template(s) or if it uses the main section's default templates. These templates are loaded (or removed) in the subsection's settings page.
• Annc. This indicates whether the subsection has its own custom announcement text, or if it uses the main section's default subsection announcement. A custom announcement may be added or removed from the subsection's settings page.
• News Feed. This indicates whether the subsection is offered as a standalone news feed, allowing site visitors to subscribe to focused content from that subsection (for complete information about Big Medium's news feeds, see the news feed help page).

Need more help?

For further assistance and documentation, visit the website of Global Moxie, the developer behind Big Medium.