Page Types

What is a page type?

Every page on your website is different, including text, links and other features needed to meet the goals of your target audience. While the content is different, many pages share a similar structure for things like the page title, navigation, and a section for content. Page types create consistency for visitors and simplify how you build the page. Page types may be very flexible, for example, a homepage. Others that need a more specific layout are more limiting, like a news article.

Think of page types as the rooms of a house. In every room, you’ll find common things like walls, doors, and lightswitches. In others, you find specific items, like the stove in the kitchen or a shower in the bathroom. Some rooms may be larger for more choices of furniture while smaller rooms are more limiting.

Benefits of page types

• Can be customized to meet the needs of your site using page components
• Automatically include consistent elements like page title, navigation, and breadcrumbs
• Provide both flexibility and standardization, depending on the needs of the page

Learn how to create a page

Guidelines for creating content

Each page on your site should have a goal for a specific audience group to accomplish. The goal and audience will vary depending on the content you plan to feature. Choose a page type based on the purpose of your content and how it should be structured to help your audience achieve their goal. Before you create new content, consider:

• What is the goal of this page? What value does this page bring to your agency’s audiences? How will you measure whether the goal is achieved?
• Who is it for? Identify your agency’s audience.
• What do I want my audience to do on this page? Identify a specific action you want visitors to take, or a task visitors need to perform when they visit this page.
• Is this content published or maintained elsewhere? Don’t duplicate content from other sites on your site. Link to it from your site instead.

More page types coming soon

As the Maryland Drupal Theme continues to be built, more page types will be added for you to use. The following will be released in the coming months.

News Page

Use news to feature press releases or other timely updates.

Contact Page

Use contact to feature email, phone, address and other contact information of staff, teams or subject matter experts.

Location Page

Use location to feature email, phone, address and other contact information of physical offices or buildings.

Event Page

Use event to highlight meetings, conferences, or other scheduled activities.

Listing Page

Use listing pages to dynamically showcase content using search, filters and pagination. Use for a newsroom, staff directory, event calendar or document archive.