Home Page Component Layout
Overview
The home page is a category detail page that includes content from the Home category, plus content that is inserted from other categories in the Site Manager.
The needs of each site will determine what is included on the home page. Here are some items you may want to include:
- SEO-Friendly Headline and an area for category description
- Slideshow
- Callouts (these can include text, images, or both)
- Featured product categories
- Featured products
- Testimonials/Reviews
- Announcements
Category fields
| Order | Field | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | |
| 2 | display_order | |
| 3 | cat_name | |
| 4 | doc_name | web-page-address |
| 5 | cat_custom1 | Home page Headline |
| 6 | cat blurb1 | Home page text |
Plus the template name, component layout, and all the cat nav flags.
homepage/default
This template is a good start for most ecommerce sites.
- use its own columns.html
homepage/ecommerce1
- This template has equalized right and left columns
- Scripts for creating the equalized columns is included within the category_detail template
- Uses its own columns.html
- Works best with square images
- Announcements and Callout sections should have background colors applied
- A non-responsive sample of this layout is on landsdownunder.com
homepage/biz1
This is a really old layout and you shouldn't use it.
homepage/biz2
This is an older version of the biz-wideslider, so don't use it.
homepage/biz3
- uses own columns.html
- displays a media-list of callouts with text and image alternating sides
homepage/biz-wideslider
- uses own columns.html
- slider is full-width of the container (i.e., no padding)
- can be used for slider full-width of browser window if you remove the container around the slider
