Creating pages
Create a new page by selecting Page from the Add Content menu.
→ Details: Navigating the interface
There are a number of options with pages that are meant to suit various use cases. We’ll walk through each of them here.
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Standard Cascade stuff here.
→ Details: Asset naming and placement
Page title and description
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The page title should be “human readable” with proper capitalization, word spacing, etc. It is displayed in the following places:
The browser tab
Page heading (if not hidden)
Breadcrumbs
→ Details: Site footer
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If you create any customizations that involve page indexing, these files may come in useful for displaying and sorting your index results.
These two fields field values are also used in the page heading in certain circumstances.
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→ More: Help Google choose the right canonical URL for your duplicate pages
Page settings
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The Settings Data Definition group is collapsed by default. Expand this to access your page settings.
Page classes
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Classes are useful when applying custom CSS or JavaScript by distinguishing this page from other pages on your site.
Custom CSS and JavaScript
You can reference custom CSS and JavaScript files that are specific this page (as opposed to being included site-wide). These references are defined by the Custom CSS and Custom JavaScript patterns, respectively.
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→ Details: Custom CSS pattern
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→ Details: Custom JavaScript pattern
Thumbnail image
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If you create any customizations that involve page indexing, you may want to select an image here that displays with this page’s index listing.
Layout options
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The Layout Data Definition group is collapsed by default. Expand this to access your page layout options. Most of these toggle on/off their respective page region.
→ Details: Page anatomy
Announcements
You can place up to two announcements in the Announcement region.
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Include announcements
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Selection
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What this means
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What this triggers
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Yes
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The Announcement region will be displayed on the page.
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Causes the Announcement widget Data Definition field to display.
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No
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The Announcement region will not be displayed on the page.
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N/A
Announcement widget
Choose the widget you want to display in the Announcements region.
→ Details: Announcement widget
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You can display up to two widgets in the Announcements region. → Details: Proliferating Data Definition items |
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Selecting a non-announcement widget will result is a warning displayed the Cascade preview. In this case, the widget content will not be included in the published page. |
Secondary nav
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Main content
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Sidebar
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Page heading
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To be continued….
→ Next: Page settings