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For many of our site designs, we'll begin by making the header area for the home page somewhat larger than how it would appear on subsequent pages.  After trying several variations of a thinner bar at the top, we realized that the height of the header is perfect as is.

This ends up benefitting us for a couple reasons.  1) a reduction in time when coding the site and 2) a reduction of bandwidth usage as the header image will already be cached and reused for sub pages (along with the navigation).

As you can see below the main navigation, the breadcrumbs will dynamically update themselves according to what section a user is visiting.

In our sub page example, we've chosen to show the "ABOUT US" page.  We do not know how much content will appear within this section, but for our example we are showing a single article appearing on the page.  Additional articles can be displayed as needed.  The mock-up article we are showing is titled "About the Young Atlanticist Summit".

Within NEATO, users can decide which template to use for a particular section.  Typically we will create a one and two column layout option for each site.  You can see two different versions of the About Us page - one with a single column spanning across the entire width of the page, and one with a second column / or sidebar.  In our example we're again showing the "Latest Videos" module within the sidebar.

There are additional layout options though, independent from the site template.  These are called TILOs which is short for Template Independent Layout Options.  These are "sub" templates which can be assigned to articles (not to an entire page).

In order to best explain how this works, please take a look at the screenshot (below) with the red circle labeled "A".

This screenshot shows the article entry screen within NEATO.  As you can see, we've chosen a two column layout - with a header and a photo.  Users simple change out the black boxes for whatever headers and/or photos they wish to appear within their article.

In the screenshot (below) with the red circle labeled "B", we've shown the result of this TILO on the actual page itself.  As you can see the article is now set up to be a two column layout.  ...only the article is affected.  Also, please note that the dotted lines would not show up on the page, this was a quick screenshot put together to show how the TILOs would work, the dotted lines only appear within the article entry screen.

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