There are a number of options with pages that are meant to suit various use cases. We’ll walk through each of them here.
Page name and placement
Standard Cascade stuff here.
→ Details: Asset naming and placement
Page title and description
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
Descriptions aren’t required, but are recommended to enhance SEO (i.e., search engine results rankings). They should be no longer than a couple sentences.
Other metadata
There are a few other metadata fields you may find useful. You can find them by clicking on the Metadata tab in the editing interface.
All fields here are optional and can be safely left blank.
Author and Publication date
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 values are also used in the page heading in certain circumstances.
Canonical URL
If your page replicates content from another page, you may want to provide the URL of the other page here for SEO purposes.
→ More: Help Google choose the right canonical URL for your duplicate pages
Page settings
The Settings Data Definition group is collapsed by default. Expand this to access your page settings.
Page classes
Classes are useful when applying custom CSS or JavaScript by distinguishing this page from other pages on your site.
Including 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.
→ Details: Custom CSS pattern
→ Details: Custom JavaScript pattern
Associating a thumbnail image
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
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.
Including announcements
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | The Announcements region will be displayed on the page. | Causes the Announcement widget Data Definition field to display. |
No | The Announcements region will not be displayed on the page. | N/A |
Selecting announcement widgets
Choose the widget you want to display in the Announcements region.
→ Details: Announcement widget
You can display up to two widgets in the Announcements region.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition items
Selecting any block type other than an announcement widget will result is a warning displayed the Cascade preview. In this case, the block content will not be included in the published page.
Secondary nav
A secondary navigation can be displayed to the left of the main content.
Including a secondary navigation
Selection | What this mean | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | The Secondary Navigation region will be displayed on the page. | Causes the Link list widget Data Definition field to display. |
No | The Secondary Navigation region will not be displayed on the page. | N/A |
Selecting a widget for the secondary nav
Choose the link list widget you want to use as the secondary navigation.
→ Details: Link List widget
Selecting any block type other than a link list widget will result is a warning displayed the Cascade preview. In this case, the block content will not be included in the published page.
Main content
Options here affect the layout of the main content. So far, there’s just the one….
Padding the main content
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | Padding above and below will be added. | N/A |
No | Padding above and below the main content will not be added. | N/A |
By default, padding is added above and below the main content.
However, if you apply a custom background color to the first (or last) content group or use a layout block there that fills that area with a non-white color, the padding may be undesirable.
In these cases, removing the padding may be preferable.
Sidebar
A sidebar can be displayed to the right of the main content. The sidebar can contain any number of widgets of any type.
Including a sidebar
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | A sidebar will displayed on the page. | Causes the Widget Data Definition field to display. |
No | A sidebar will not be displayed on the page. | N/A |
Selecting sidebar widgets
Select the widget you want to display in the sidebar.
→ Details: Widgets
Selecting any block type other than a widget will result is a warning displayed the Cascade preview. In this case, the block content will not be included in the published page.
You can add as many widgets as you need to the sidebar.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition items
Page heading
The Page heading Data Definition group is collapsed by default. Expand this to access your heading options.
Choosing the heading type
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Default | The page title will be displayed as the heading. | Causes the Alignment Data Definition field to displayl |
Marquee | A marquee layout will be used as the page heading. | Causes the Marquee Data Definition field to display. |
Article/Post | An article/post style heading will be used. | Causes the Display publication date, Display description, and Display byline Data Definition fields to display, |
Hidden | The page title will be used as the heading, but not displayed visually. | N/A |
Default heading type
The page title is displayed as the heading.
Alignment
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Left | The page heading will be left aligned. | N/A |
Center | The page heading will be center aligned, | N/A |
Marquee heading type
A marquee layout is used as the page heading.
→ Details: Marquee layout
Article/Post heading type
In some cases, you may want to treat the heading with additional content, such as when the page functions as an article or post (although the Article/Post heading type is not exclusive to this use case).
Displaying additional heading content
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Yes | Displays the respective content along with the page title. | N/A |
No | Does not display the respective content along with the page title. | N/A |
Heading element details
Heading element | Data source | Display |
|---|---|---|
Publication date |  | |
Description |  | |
Byline |  |
Hidden heading type
In some cases, you may want to hide the page heading from visual display. For example, your homepage may have the title ‘Home’, which is semantically correct, but may not be useful for display. Hiding the heading in this case allows other important content to move up the page.