An Isomer site is made up of five components. Understanding how they fit together will help you build and organise your content in Isomer Studio.
Homepage
Navigation bar and footer
Folders (for content organisation)
Pages
Collections
Homepage
The homepage is the first page your website visitors see when they access your site directly, for example by typing your URL into a browser. Every Isomer site has one homepage by default.
This is where your site's main content is introduced and your brand identity is communicated.
Navigation bar and footer
The navigation bar sits persistently at the top of every page on your site. The footer sits persistently at the bottom. Together they are the primary way your website visitors move between different sections of your site.
Folders
Folders are used to group related content pages together.
By organising content pages into Folders, it can help:
you manage your content in Isomer Studio better
your website visitors navigate related content in your website
The folder structure you set up in Isomer Studio becomes your site's URL structure. For example, pages inside a folder called "About us" will have URLs beginning with
/about-us/.
Pages
Isomer Studio has three types of pages you can create on your own:
Standard layout page — for main content, with a full range of blocks available
Article layout page — for reading-focused content such as news articles, press releases, and blog posts
Collection page — automatically generated when you create a collection, with a fixed layout for browsing and filtering articles, files, and links
Two additional page types are generated automatically based on how you organise your content:
Overview page — generated when you create a folder, showing a listing of all child pages in that folder
Collection page — generated when you create a collection
Collections
A collection is a special type of folder for organising a large number of article layout pages, files, and external links. Unlike standard folders, collections let your website visitors filter and search content by category, tags, or year.
Collections are best used for content that needs to be browsed and filtered, such as publications, press releases, speeches, or media resources.