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Choosing a site structure

when you create your hyper 8 site 00:00
the first thing you will encounter in 00:01
the editor is the site setup page 00:03
on this page you can choose from 00:07
three different options that will decide how 00:08
your site is structured the last option 00:11
is also the simplest one which is 00:14
that your video site simply presents a 00:16
single video 00:19
the second option is that your video 00:20
site is basically itself a playlist that 00:24
contains any number of videos and the 00:26
first option is the most flexible and 00:30
most powerful one and that is a 00:33
collection which can contain any number of 00:34
videos any number of playlists and again 00:37
any number of subcollections and 00:40
these subcollections themselves can contain any 00:42
number of videos, playlists, subcollections and 00:45
so on so this is a very 00:47
powerful framework of if you will categories 00:49
or groups that you can use to 00:52
build complex hierarchies that can nest very 00:54
deeply if you want them to 00:57
and the last important takeaway from this 00:59
video is that you can also at 01:01
any later point change between these options 01:04
so if you initialize your site first as 01:06
a single video site you can go 01:09
to dangerous actions and move this into 01:11
a new playlist as you can see the 01:15
site thereby becomes a 01:17
playlist itself and that contains a video 01:19
and here you can see that as 01:23
it is a playlist you can add 01:26
further videos to it but if you 01:27
go again to dangerous actions for this 01:30
playlist you can convert it to a collection 01:32
and when you do that you can 01:35
see that there are further options 01:37
now available because a collection can 01:39
also contain subcollections and playlists and 01:41
so on you can nest that as 01:44
deep as you want and also important 01:45
is that this also goes the other 01:48
way around so if at this point 01:50
you want to sort of reduce the 01:52
complexity of your site you can for 01:54
instance go from a collection back to 01:56
a playlist here 01:59
and as this playlist just contains 02:01
a single video you can go all 02:03
the way back and say you want 02:05
to convert this playlist with one video 02:07
back to just a single video and 02:09
with this we've come full circle and 02:12
our site is basically back at 02:14
the initial complexity which is just one 02:15
video 02:18

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