A simple example website showing how to use the JNCC Website CSS to make a microsite with the same look and feel.
Open it up as as file in your browser like file:///home/pete/work/microsite-css/index.html.
The frontend-orignal folder is taken directly, for reference, from the frontend folder in the JNCC Website source code, as created by the website contractor Carbon Six Digital, on 11 April 2019.
The frontend folder here contains just those files we determined were needed to make a microsite. You could copy additional files from the original source if necessary.
A production build of a microsite could reference all the files in
frontendin the parent JNCC website (like../frontendor whatever) to save the user needing to download these files, some of which are fairly large, more than once.
To make a new microsite, copy the frontend folder from here into your project and use index.html as a reference for building the markup.
- The JNCC logo always takes you to the JNCC home page
- Search in the header is over the full JNCC site, for consistency with the main website. Microsite search, if needed, can be done in some other way appropriate to the microsite.
- The first menu item is
< Main site. Users do not all look at or understand URLs. The microsites just "look like a different menu" in the JNCC Website. The first menu item is the name of the microsite, and any subsequent menu items within the microsite can go to the right. - The logo next to the Microsite name is the database icon by default but could be something else if you can find something better.
- If you don't want the massive 'hero image' on a page, you annoyingly need to add the class
no-page-heroto thetop-bar navelement, which is probably going to be in your master page template. - The footer will need updating to match the current live JNCC Website content.