Hard coded navigation
Over the last few months most of my work has been taking over Joomla sites where owners have fired both external webdevelopers and in one case a whole in-house development team.
And for 90% of the sites in question navigation has been hardcoded. In the case of the site done by an in-house dev team they made a template for every single menu for the individual menu items to show up as high lighted. And the side nav menus are made up of custom html modules which includes an image and image map.
I just wonder is this really how developers are doing this? These sites in question are for major US companies in their respective fields.
I can truly understand why I management of the companies in question are asking if Joomla was the right choice.
Do you include hard coded navigation in your Joomla sites? And why?
And for 90% of the sites in question navigation has been hardcoded. In the case of the site done by an in-house dev team they made a template for every single menu for the individual menu items to show up as high lighted. And the side nav menus are made up of custom html modules which includes an image and image map.
I just wonder is this really how developers are doing this? These sites in question are for major US companies in their respective fields.
I can truly understand why I management of the companies in question are asking if Joomla was the right choice.
Do you include hard coded navigation in your Joomla sites? And why?
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Permalink Reply by Ronni K. G. Christiansen on -
hi Bo,
No - we would _never_ do that.
Infact we have made many many other solutions that does everything else but hardcode them :) -
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Lackey on -
No way. May use CSS and image sprites if specific fonts/styles are required, but never ever hard code menus.
Sounds like a mess. It's very unfortunate that stuff like this happens. This kind of stuff definitely gives Joomla a bad name. I'm working through a few of these type of sites right now. -
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Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on
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Do you include hard coded navigation in your Joomla sites? And why?
For crying out loud, no! -
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Permalink Reply by Mustaq Sheikh on -
It seems like the previous Team converted a static theme for use in Joomla, very very irregular indeed and also a restrictive system.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Vining on -
I just took over a site a few months back that was supposed to get a template club template and new sobi2 templates and that's it... Ok, quick work I thought... then I got ahold of the site. WOW! I wish it were only menus hardcoded! They had actually coded several of the sobi2 pages into stand alone php pages to integrate tracking software for the sobi2 listings... it's a mess. I literally pulled the entries from the database and started over.
I'm getting closer now, and once I get the categories in sobi2 straightened out, it should be done. They had 38,000 categories for 150 entries... yes, 38,000 categories. 150 entries. -
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Permalink Reply by Pete Jones on -
It's amazing how 'out of the box' some people's thinking gets. That sort of thing just says 'lack of understanding' to me.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Luton (ToolboxCreations) on -
Pete Jones said:It's amazing how 'out of the box' some people's thinking gets. That sort of thing just says 'lack of understanding' to me.
Nail -> Head.
This just comes from a true lack of understanding of how a CMS (not just Joomla!) should function, the developer is probably new to Joomla!, used to how static stuff is coded, and couldn't be arsed to learn how to do things properly. -
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Permalink Reply by Rene Kreijveld on
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Hi Bo,
We too never ever use hardcoded menu's. We allways use dynamic, by Joomla generated menus. -
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