In website operation, the navigation system plays a crucial role, it is not only a map for users to explore the content of the website, but also a key for search engines to understand the structure of the website.An elegantly designed navigation can significantly enhance user experience, guide users to discover more interesting content, thereby extending visit duration, and indirectly assist the website's SEO performance.AnQiCMS provides a set of intuitive and powerful navigation settings functions, allowing you to flexibly build various navigation to meet the diverse content display needs of the website.

Core Concept: Flexible navigation construction

AnQiCMS deeply understands the diversity of website content display, therefore its navigation settings are not limited to a single main navigation bar.It introduces the concept of 'navigation category management', which means you can create multiple independent navigation areas based on the website layout and content planning.

Imagine that your website not only needs a "main navigationBy easily adding custom categories such as "Footer Navigation", "Sidebar Categories", and "Auxiliary Navigation" in the background, AnQiCMS allows you to tailor the navigation structure for every functional area of the website.This partition management method ensures that every corner of the website has clear guidance, ensuring that different types of information can be effectively organized and presented to the target users.

Content linking and hierarchical management

The power of navigation lies in its ability to connect to any corner of the website. AnQiCMS provides various types of link settings to meet the richness of content connections: English

  1. Built-in Links:For the basic pages of the website, such as 'Home Link', 'Article Model Home', 'Product Model Home', and so on, they can be configured directly through built-in options, which is convenient and fast.This ensures that the core entrance of the website is always clearly visible.
  2. Category page link:The core content of the website is often organized by categories.Whether it is article classification, product classification, or independent single pages (such as "About UsThis approach greatly simplifies the association between content and navigation, ensuring that users can directly access the information they need in one step.
  3. External links:If you need to direct users to other affiliated websites, partner pages, or external resources, AnQiCMS also provides an option to add 'external links'.This brings greater openness and scalability to the website.

In addition to the diversity of link types, AnQiCMS also supports building multi-level navigation.You can set 'Parent Navigation' for navigation items to create a dropdown menu with up to two levels.For example, clicking "Products" in the main navigation may display a dropdown menu showing subcategories such as "Electronics" and "Home Goods".This hierarchical structure not only saves page space, but also makes content organization more organized. Users can find target information through a step-by-step progressive approach, greatly enhancing the user experience.

Detail Presentation: Enhance User Experience

To ensure that the navigation is not only powerful but also better serves user understanding and brand image, AnQiCMS has integrated rich detail options into the navigation link configuration:

  • Display Name:This is the text displayed for the navigation item on the front-end page, you can name it flexibly according to your actual needs without being拘泥于the title of the content itself.
  • Subheading Name:Especially for multilingual websites or navigation items that require additional explanation, you can add a subtitle to provide more context information, such as displaying the corresponding English translation under a Chinese title.
  • Navigation description:Some complex navigation items may require more detailed explanations.Through setting the navigation description, you can display a brief explanation when the mouse hovers over it, helping users better understand the content pointed to by the navigation item.
  • Display Order:You can adjust the display order of navigation items by setting numbers based on the importance of the content or operational strategy, ensuring that the most important information is always in a prominent position.

These detailed settings give the website operator a high degree of control over the navigation system, ensuring that each navigation element provides clear, accurate, and attractive guidance to users.

Template integration: Dynamic navigation display

All navigation settings you configure in AnQiCMS back-end will be throughnavListThe label is dynamically presented on the front-end template of the website. When you use it in the template file,{% navList navs with typeId="您创建的导航类别ID" %}This code will automatically retrieve all navigation data corresponding to the category and provide it to the front-end template in a traversable list.This means that no matter how you adjust the navigation content, order, or hierarchy in the background, the front-end page can be updated in real-time without manually modifying the code.

In addition, AnQiCMS also providesbreadcrumbLabel used to generate "breadcrumb navigation" within the page.This navigation form can clearly display the user's current location and the path in the website structure, providing a sense of direction and making it convenient for users to backtrack to the parent page.

Through these features, AnQiCMS navigation settings are not just simple link stacking, but an intelligent system that can be deeply customized according to the characteristics of the website content and the user's access habits. It can effectively support the diverse content display needs of the website, thereby achieving more accurate user guidance and more efficient operation goals.

Common Questions (FAQ)

  1. 问：How do I create a new navigation area for my website in AnQiCMS, such as an independent footer navigation?答：You can find the 'Navigation Settings' under the 'Backend Settings' in AnQiCMS, where you will see the 'Navigation Category Management'. Here you can click to add a new navigation category, for example, name it 'Footer Navigation', and after saving, you can add navigation links to this new category, and in your website template, you can specify the correspondingtypeIdCall to display.

  2. Question: Does AnQiCMS support directing to a specific article or product detail page, rather than a category page, if my navigation item needs it?答：AnQiCMS 的导航链接类型中，直接指向特定文章或产品的“内置链接”主要是模型首页。If you need to point to a specific article or product, you will usually first select the corresponding "category page link", and then select the category where the article or product is located.However, if you need to create a link to a specific single page (such as "About UsFor more complex direct article/product link requirements, it may be necessary to combine custom template logic or external link methods to achieve this.

  3. 问：AnQiCMS 的导航支持多少级菜单？如何设置下拉菜单？答：AnQiCMS's navigation supports up to two levels of menus.When adding navigation links in "Navigation SettingsIf you set it to "Primary navigation", it will be displayed as a top-level menu; if you choose an existing primary navigation as its parent, it will become a second-level dropdown menu item under that primary navigation.navList标签循环渲染时，系统会自动判断item.NavListIs it there, thus presenting a multi-level menu structure.