Plan the content model before the layouts
No layout waits for a field that does not exist.
Life cycle: Plan, example 33 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.
Contents
In the Layouts editor
- Item view types show the teaser fields (teaser title, teaser image, teaser intro): plan them as editors' work.
In the classes
- Setup > Classes lists the classes; NG Article, for example, has
title,teaser_title,image,teaser_image,full_intro,teaser_intro,body,related_content,main_topic,tags. - Plan new fields before the templates that print them.
Which to choose
Model first, layouts second, templates last.
Check
- Every element of the page designs comes from a field.
Related pages
- Which way: the decision table
- Plan examples, every page
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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