[Hypercontent-users] Newbies Questions

[Liying M. <liy...@fa...>]

Hi Experts,

We are trying HC2.0 now to implement a test version of our university's
website. We are still at the stage of understanding more of HC by playing
with the sample project, modifying content. I know we can add items under
News directory, but when we can't do certain things like adding a root menu
item or changing the navigation to be a drop down list, we are stuck. 

I read the Hypercontent 1.4 Manual, and thanks, that was helpful in
understanding the building blocks. However, I still don't know where to
start. Here are the questions:

1. In order to meet our needs, do we modify the definitions in the sample
project, or do we need a brand new project built?

2. If we need to build project from scratch, then,
*	Do we create a test-repository folder under
C:\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2 (same directory where
sample-build and sample-repository exist) and leave webapp folder alone?
*	Do we first create Project Definition, filesystem, under
C:\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2\repositories\bootstrap\
config and projects? How do we define it if we don't have user.xml,
index.xml, index.xsl, projet.xsl, etc created yet?
*	What source can we borrow for the new project, what need to be
modified and recompiled?
Thanks so much for helping me get started. slowly.

Lillian Miao
ERP/IT 
Florida A&M University 
(850) 412-7999