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This tutorial will guide you through the process of making and customizi= ng a front page for your website. For this purpose we will use a feature of= eZ Platform Enterprise Edition called Landing Page. =
Landing Page is a special type of page that lets the Editor= easily create and customize a complex, multi-zone entrance point to= your website. In this tutorial you will learn both how to make use of out-= of-the-box elements of the feature and how to extend it to fit your specifi= c needs.
This tutorial is intended for a beginner with basic knowledge of the wor= kings of eZ Platform. Ideally, you should be familiar with the concepts cov= ered in the Building a Bicycle Route Tracker in eZ Platform tutorial.
After going through this tutorial, you will:
You have been commissioned with creat= ing a website for the It's a Dog's World magazine, a periodical for dog own= ers. It's a Dog's World is a magazine focused on content-rich articles, a c= omprehensive encyclopedia of dog breeds and useful dog = care advice.
Your main objective is to create a we= lcome page that would showcase the magazine's three most important types of= content: articles, dog breed information and tips.
We will do this by means of a Landing Page, making use of its specific b= locks, and crafting our own as well.
A Landing Page is particularly fitted to what you need to do in this tut= orial. You can build and customize it once, and later the magazine's editor= can create and publish new content that will automatic= ally land in the correct place on the front page.
For showcasing articles we will use a Schedule Block, a special Landing = Page element that lets you plan the times and order at which content will a= ir.
We will display entries from the Dog Breed encyclopedia using a Content = List Block. This block will automatically find all Dog Breed Content items = and display their previews in a separate column.
Finally, we will display one random tip of the day using a special, cust= om block we will build during this tutorial.
The tutorial goes through four steps:
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