Designers - Body Content Pages

The ~views/html/ directory contains all the body content pages for the site, and although not always, are generally named by the URI being viewed within the browser. For example, visiting http://domain.com/services will render the template located at ~/views/html/services.html.

When a template is rendered, the appropriate layout will be determined and applied. The <s:page_contents> tag within the layout will be replaced with the contents of the body file. For example, the initial default.html layout is:

<s:theme include="header.html">

<s:page_contents>

<s:theme include="footer.html">

If visiting the URL at https://domain.com/services/hosting, the <s:page_contents> tag in the above layout will be replaced with the contents of the file located at ~/views/html/services/hosting.html.

Page Titles

When a template is rendered, the first set of <h1> ... >/h1> tags will be extracted from the template, and used as the replacement ofr the <s:page_title> tag.

This allows you as the designer to place the page title within a more complex HTML snippet, generally within the ~/includes/header.html file, while the back-end developers only need to place a set of <h1> ... </h1> tags within each template.