This post is aimed at helping you understand your website layout. Your shop layout consists of two major components–panels and pages–that can be created and modified through your control panel. These components are the building blocks of your website and will help you create and place content within your website layout. The image below highlights these components.
Panels and pages are the main components of your website layout.
The following are definitions of each component:
Panels:
A panel is pane that can be aligned to the top, left, right or bottom sides of your page. In the image above, boxes #1-5 are all panels. Panels can contain menus, text, images, scripts or custom code. You can create any number of panels and they can be ordered relative to their alignment. Panels that have pages assigned to them will automatically generate a menu containing the names of all assigned pages (see #3). Once created, a panel will appear on all of your pages (both new and existing).
Pages:
Your website content is based on pages which convey information to your visitors. Our system will auto-generate all product and category pages for you and fill them with the appropriate content. But in addition to your product and category pages, you may wish to create custom pages for your shop that provide your visitors with important company information (i.e. contact, returns, policies, etc) or related content such as promotions. Whenever you want to add some content to your shop, you’ll likely want to create a new page.
Your visitors can find your pages by navigating menus on your website (see #3). Whenever you create a page, you will be asked to assign it to a panel. This will ensure that your page appears within an auto-generated menu in your selected panel.
Once you get your head around panels and pages, you’ll be able to create and modify shop content with ease.
