Rock U - Content Management - CMS Components

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So let's talk about the various components that make up the content management system within So again starting from the external website that ships with Rock and this site is again a theme that's meant to be a starting point not an ending point. But again just taking it as an example. So the first component that we come to are blocks and these are the basic units of content and data that you can put on a page. Rock ships with several hundreds of these so there's a lot of different options of how you're gonna build these pages with blocks. Now blocks need a place to live, they need a home and zones are those homes for blocks. So on this page we see that there's several different zones. There's a header zone that you can put blocks in, there's a main zone that you can put blocks in, and there's a feature zone you can put blocks in. At the very bottom, a footer zone. Now you can have as many zones as you want. It's kind of up to your web theme developer to create those zones and determine where they're gonna land. But zones are where the blocks live. Now, zones can kind of flex in where they're located and what part of the page they're on and that's where the layouts come. So each theme usually has three, four or five different layouts. So some of these layouts might be a home page layout, a full page layout, a right sidebar layout, a left sidebar layout or maybe even just one called blank which is one big zone that you can put blocks in. So layouts provide a structure for those zones. The final component are themes and themes with it is what adds that polish, that look, that styling to a site. So here we see two different themes. Now they're very subtle. One has slightly different colors and slightly fonts, the exact same blocks, the exact same page actually, it's just that that page now is loading a different theme. Now when you get a little bit more advanced and you start working on your own themes, those themes can have just drastically different capabilities and different styling. And so here we're looking at six different web websites that run Rock. This is just a small sampling of the sites that run Rock but you can see that it looks totally different based on your theme. So those are the major components that make up the CHMS system within Rock.