Over the last few weeks, since I began writing in our blog for your reading pleasure, I have gotten a few suggestions about what to write on. These articles are to help you, so {encode=“lisa.wess@ellislab.com” title=“keep those suggestions coming!”}
Before we continue, this article is going use terms from The Importance of Semantics, so you may wish to take a moment and review that article.
Last Week, I said we had completed the default URL handling, but you see, it doesn’t actually end there! Every site, including my own, has certain pages that are “static” in nature and would benefit from a simple URL structure. For example, almost every site has an About page. It would be really nice to easily add to and edit this type of content which is exactly what the Pages Module is for.
Pages makes managing “static” content very straightforward. A Page is identified by a few characteristics that set it apart from a standard weblog entry.
* You decide the URI when you create the entry in the Publish form’s “Pages” tab.
* When creating the entry, you choose the template to use for displaying that entry.
How, then, do we take advantage of these custom URIs so that we can have our articles appear magically wherever we want? Well, read on!
