Defining Content

The Content component is the most important component for creating what visitors and users will see on your Web site. Articles are the basic form of content. Articles are organized into categories, and categories are organized into sections. This terminology comes from traditional print models, where a newspaper might have News, Sports, Business, and Features sections, and those sections might have different categories, such as local and national news in the News section, baseball and basketball in the Sports section, the stock market and retail business in the Business section, and home furnishings and cooking in the Features section. In your site, you may have many sections or just one. You may have many categories or just a few. What is important is to understand how to use the Content component and to have a good plan for organizing your articles.

Working with the sample data is a good way to learn how to work with site content without having to create the content yourself. Once you learn to edit existing articles, create new articles, and manage sections and categories, you will be ready to create your own.