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Creating Sections in your Content Templates | BG_CT_006

In this tutorial, we dive into the concept of sections within Infigo, explaining how they function as building blocks for organizing content on a webpage. Sections can be used to divide a page into different parts, making it easier to structure and format content. We explore the various types of sections available, including standard sections for general content, sliders for dynamic content presentation, and featured content sections that mimic product or category styles. The video also demonstrates how to add and customize these sections, adjust their layouts, and configure specific styling options, providing a practical guide to building and organizing content on your storefront.

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Right.

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So starting off

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with sections and really understanding
what sections are in this case.

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So sections are, as we've already said,

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they're like building blocks
that help to organize your web page.

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and they define or divide
the content into different parts.

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So you'll see this on the vast
majority of web pages.

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And I apologize for some of you.

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If you are bespoke web developers,
this will be second nature to you guys

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just trying to cover the whole audience
that we might have available here.

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So it makes it easier to understand.

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You can see here

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that this sample page I've got here
is split into three different sections.

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So it makes it nice and clear.

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Dividing up your section, dividing up
your content into different sections.

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Now when
we're actually adding our sections

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into Infigo itself,
we have a few different

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possibilities of what that section
might be and how that section might work.

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So I'll go through this side
and then we'll actually go and see how

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a couple of those work,
on the actual storefront itself.

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So when we're generating content
templates, users

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have several sections, options
to choose from.

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and again, you can put numerous
different sections on each page body.

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You're not limited to one.

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You can add as many as you like.

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Now the first one is section.

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So you can see the little dropdown
list there.

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we can add a section.

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This is kind of a general section
template facilitating placing content

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in customized columns.

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So for example
the one we've got here which I showed

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is a section where we've just formatted
the particular content.

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The next option we have is a slider.

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So that is a scrolling slider
which facilitates sections

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with differing appearance.

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So this changes it ever so slightly.

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You're still specifying the the layout
and the content of those sections.

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But seeing as it's sliding
between different

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slides, pages,
whatever you want to call them,

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you will have to specify
multiple different layouts,

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and you can customize those as well.

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We also have featured content.

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So this is in the product style
or in the category style.

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we won't touch on these too much today,

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but just to show you what it is
that they look like.

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So I'll use that demonstration page

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that I've set up.

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So you have a section
which is featured Content of Product style

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and of category style.

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And that will essentially allow you
so the same way in

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which you can have featured products
or featured categories.

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It allows you to display content
on your home page

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using the identical style
of those sections.

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So these don't have to link to products
or categories,

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it's just using that particular styling.

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So this could link to the pages.

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It could link to.

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It could link to products
if you want it to

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and so on and so forth.

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All right.

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So let's take a look at adding
a couple of sections just for context.

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Now when we're actually
going through this process

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I'm going to build,

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just for this example, a content page.

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So a brand new web page
that we can very update very easily,

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can take a look at very easily.

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So I'm just going to go
to our content pages section,

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create a new content page.

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I'll save that.

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And I'll get started just by changing
that to Content Template editor.

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What this gives us by default is

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the selection of no content templates.

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But we can choose our builder, which is
the one we're going to be focusing on.

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That does give you a section in there

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by default, but you can get rid of that
if you wish to do so.

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So you starting off with a clean slate,
a blank section.

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Go to add content
over on the bottom right.

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And that gives you the option to,

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add different types of sections
that we've just been talking about.

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So we'll start off with a section itself.

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Now we can add layouts.

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So different numbers of columns
we can add content to this.

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We'll do that in the next steps.

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However if we want to look at specific
configuration options for that

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particular section we'll go to that
little configuration icon.

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And you'll see this allows us

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to control things such as 
if we want to change the background color,

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if we want an image
to be displayed in the background,

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or little different styling options
which are accessible via

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a dropdown list, rather
than having to write that HTML code.

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So just so we can see what we're doing
here, I'm

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just going to switch that background color
to be my primary color.

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So that's what's been utilized
in my appearance settings.

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And then click on save.

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I would of that page

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and I have a section at the top here
which is that cool.

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It just so happens to be the same color
as my footer as well.

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So that's the section included.

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There's no content in it so far.

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That is the section included.

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We could also add a slider,

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so I'll try one of those as well.

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And you'll see that as I mentioned
before, this requires

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a little bit of extra configuration
because you've got a changing screen.

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You're going to want multiple
what are essentially sections on there.

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So we can add a new slide. For example.

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So I've got a couple of new slides.

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And then we can start defining
the layout of those particular slides

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as well.

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I'm just going to change the background
color of those slides

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just so
we can see exactly what it's doing.

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So I'll make one of my slides like gray

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and I'll make my other slide.

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My secondary color.

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So hopefully you can start to see.

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Now I know we're only

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doing the absolute basics, but you can see
how this is starting to populate.

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So we've created a section
which is currently empty.

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We then created a slider
in which we've added two slides.

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So they're contained
within the slider element.

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If I then save that and refresh the page.

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We can see we've got our section

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and we've

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got the beginnings of our actual slider
component,

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which we can see there is changing between
the two slides that have specified.

 

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