Example Content Types

What is a Content Type?

Content Types are essentially web pages tailored for a particular purpose. The Content Types most frequently used on our platform are the Landing Page, Site Page, Data Table, Press Release, Blog, and Event.

When you create a new Digital Commons webpage, you start by choosing the Content Type. Next, you fill out a form with fields for the page Title, the Page Content, the Main Image, etc. When you save the page, its formatting will look similar to other pages of its same Content Type. 

Landing Pages and Site Pages offer the most customization because they include a layout feature called Bands. Bands are containers for holding content. They can be stacked one on top of the other and may contain one or more columns of content. The content you can place into the columns of the Bands are called Components. 

Explore examples of all the available Content Types on Digital Commons.