Well I've worked around it to launch the site, so it may be hard to imagine.
I used to have a front page with a photo in the header that filled up the screen. I have made a
mockup front page
to show you how the main page - index.php - used to look so you can imagine it. The front page was really for the photo. There was only one link on the top of the page to conference details.
But I couldn't delay the site launch for such a small glitch. So I have now moved the photo (of the poster) to a small version in an article on
the current front page
. So you can't see the issue anymore.
When you process a form, at the stage where you press the registration confirmation - just before you are forwarded to paypal - you are redirected to the
home page (index.php)
, but an index page with no articles on it - an empty page in the default home page style. So when I used the old homepage with a header with the large photo, all you saw was the photo (since the photo was not in an article, but in the header, it still appeared on the page). Unless the registrant thought about it, he or she might not scroll down past the photo in the header, and might not finish the registration process. (You can test this out by registering on the
the registration page
.You won't have to do to the last (payment step).
It works without problems the way I have currently re-arranged it, but I really wanted to have the front page with the large poster. I thought if I could forward the registration processing to a page of my choice, I could have the index.php of my design without confusing my registrants.
