Silva is designed for large scale web sites and provides an easy way to organize content.
The basic Silva building blocks are Publications and Folders. They are very similar to folders on your computer. The major difference between the two are:
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Folder: the presentation of the information within a publication is structured with folders. They determine the visual hierarchy that a Visitor sees. Folders on the top level define sections of a publication, subfolders define chapters, etc. |
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Publication: these containers function as the major organizing blocks of a Silva site. They instill a threshold of view, showing only the contents of the current publication. This keeps the overview screens in large sites manageable. Publications have configuration settings that determine which core and pluggable objects will be available. For complex publications, sub-publications can be nested. |
Folders and Publications are organized via the Content Management Navigation Bar
Fig. 1 Silva Content Management Navigation Bar
A Silva publication can hold a number of folders and each folder can contain a number of documents.
For example the works of Shakespeare could be placed in a publication. Another publication could hold the works of Tolstoy and another the works of Voltaire.
Folders within the Shakespeare publication could hold his plays, his sonnets and his poems.
Each play could be in its own folder inside the Play Folder.
At the other end of the scale, a document within the poem folder could hold one of Shakespeare's poems etc.
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