{"id":7300,"date":"2009-03-04T04:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T11:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2009-03-04T04:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T11:28:30","slug":"engenu-epiphany-2-a-hierarchy-of-folders-becomes-a-hierachy-of-pages-becomes-a-functional-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7300\/engenu-epiphany-2-a-hierarchy-of-folders-becomes-a-hierachy-of-pages-becomes-a-functional-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"engenu Epiphany #2: A hierarchy of Folders becomes a hierachy of Pages becomes a functional web site"},"content":{"rendered":"

I drafted this\u00a0article a few days ago, before Greg posted\u00a0his video demo of engenu<\/a>.\u00a0 Coincidentally, I think my post here serves as a pretty good introduction to the engenu functions that are covered in the video.<\/p>\n

I like Greg’s description of\u00a0 engenu’s functionality here<\/a>.\u00a0 (About two thirds of the way down in the post, below the photos.)<\/p>\n

And once you own the basic, core engenu concept of folders become pages<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, what Greg is describing is logical,\u00a0\u00a0and actually quite easy to do.<\/p>\n

But I think I a simpler, pared down example\u00a0of folders becoming pages becoming a web site<\/em><\/strong> will help\u00a0everyone get from here to there.<\/p>\n

Suppose I want to build a very simple, single property web site.<\/p>\n

I want a page with the property description to be the main entry page.\u00a0 I want three sub-pages.\u00a0 One with neighborhood information, one with my bio, and a contact me page.<\/p>\n

If I was working in WordPress, I’d log into my WordPress Dashboard, create each each page, set the front page display to the property description page, and activate the Pages widget to display a list of pages in the sidebar, or handcode them into sidebar.php.<\/p>\n

To build the same site in engenu, the paradigm shifts to setting up the structure offline first.<\/p>\n

I have found it\u00a0is\u00a0quick and easy\u00a0to just create folders with my FTP program.<\/p>\n

First I’d create an empty\u00a0folder named “123 Green Street”.\u00a0 Yes, that folder could also contain PDFs, and images which will automatically become a slideshow,\u00a0 but hold that thought for the later.<\/p>\n

Then I open the empty “123 Green Street” folder, and create three empty sub-folders inside of it:\u00a0 “Neighborhood Information”, “About Me” and “Contact Me”.<\/p>\n

In the FTP program, I move back\u00a0up a level, and upload the\u00a0“123 Green Street” folder to my host\/server.\u00a0 Since the other three folders are nested inside of “123 Green Street”, they get uploaded, too, in one quick zap.<\/p>\n

Now I go to mysite.com\/engenu and process the whole shebang through engenu.\u00a0 All four folders became pages,<\/em><\/strong> with 123 Green Street set as the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I drafted this\u00a0article a few days ago, before Greg posted\u00a0his video demo of engenu.\u00a0 Coincidentally, I think my post here serves as a pretty good introduction to the engenu functions that are covered in the video. I like Greg’s description of\u00a0 engenu’s functionality here.\u00a0 (About two thirds of the way down in the post, below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7158,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7158\/engenu-epiphany-1-folders-become-pages\/","url_meta":{"origin":7300,"position":0},"title":"engenu Epiphany #1: Folders become pages","author":"Cheryl Johnson","date":"February 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"When I saw this a few days ago on BHB, I was not sure I could come up with anything \"helpful\". 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