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Add Page

A page is the basic building block of a website. It acts as a container for your content while providing a general structure based on your layout template and styling. From an open www folder, click + Add and select Add Page.

STML files

While a page is composed of hypertext markup and served in a browser, all pages in the Solodev CMS are given a ".stml" extension. An STML is an HTML file that contains server-side includes (SSI), which are used to generate page-generated content. STML files are processed by the server when a user accesses the related webpage.

Add Page form

Name Description
Name Add the page name. The name of the page should be lowercase and separated with dashes.
Title Add the page title. This will be the Title displayed on your site.
Description Add the page description. This description can be utilized on your website's frontend or for organizational purposes.
Layouts Choose a starting layout — see below.
Confirm After filling out all the required fields, please click the Submit button to save your changes.

Layouts

Name Description
Blank Template Start from a completely empty STML page with no content.
Base Template A full-width Bootstrap shell with a reusable header, footer, and three body layout drop zones.
Homepage Template A Bootstrap homepage shell with stacked section bands and blank content regions.
Sectional Template A flexible Bootstrap shell with stacked content rows, suited to promo or landing sections.
Content Template A Bootstrap inner-page shell with a two-column content-and-sidebar layout.

The Base, Homepage, Sectional, and Content layouts are built-in Bootstrap system templates — a faster starting point than Blank Template if your page fits one of those common shapes. Once your page is created, see Page Overview for how to build it out with the drag-and-drop component palette.

Which layout fits?

  • Homepage is your site's front door, and there's normally only one -- it introduces the whole site and often carries a hero banner, a CTA, and links out to everything else.
  • Sectional is a high-level jumping-off point for one section of a larger site (think a "Departments" landing page linking out to each department). Used sparingly, and usually styled to stand out from ordinary content pages.
  • Content (sometimes called an "interior" template) is the workhorse -- it powers the bulk of an ordinary multi-page site and gets reused across many pages that share the same shape.
  • Base underlies all of the above -- it's the header/footer/tracking-code shell that the other layouts (and any page you build from Blank) are ultimately built on top of.

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