Create a landing page

Landing pages group areas of content together to help people find the content they need. For example, we could create a Communications landing page that organizes all News, Executive Communications, and Press Releases in one area of the web site. Anyone interested in seeing the latest communications opens that landing page first.

Follow these steps to use the Landing Page template to create a landing page.

1. Navigate to the home page.

2. Turn on Edit mode.

3. Click Create.

4. Enter the name of the page.

5. Select the CTC Landing template.

6. Select an insertion point.

7. Click Create Page.

Results

You now have a new page with a corresponding structure in your IBM Web Content Manager library.

• Add content to a landing page
  When we first create landing pages, they are empty. After you add the subareas we want, which will be a combination of index/details pages, and potentially further levels of landing pages, you come back and add content.

• Add a list to a landing page
  Now that we have content for the landing page, create a list to highlight featured content on the landing page. Do so by adding one of the Content Template Catalog predefined list portlets to the page.

• Limiting the scope of a list
  List portlets automatically pull content from all areas under the landing page. They cannot link content titles to a specific site area. Make the list more useful by limiting the scope of the list to a specific area and using the title as a shortcut link to that area.

• Add a cross-linked list to a page
  As the site grows, adding cross-linked lists that link to pages at the same level or in separate areas may become necessary. For example, to list News articles on an Executive Communications page, add a list to the Executive Communications page and then configure it to retrieve content from the News area.

Parent Get started with Content Template Catalog for site authors