The page type landing page is used as a start page or when a lot of information is to be displayed, for example as an introduction to a topic.

The function of the landing page is to provide overview and show the visitor where to proceed to. It is not in itself content-bearing, but only shows where to go for content.

Functions on the landing page

A landing page has a large picture or colour plate, included in-link, navigation to pages (menu links in the form of buttons) and promos. If you wish to have a colour plate over only half the image area, select Colour Hero. On landing pages you can add up to five promos in width. If you want more promos, create more blocks!

A good idea is to sketch your landing page idea on paper in order to think through your content presentation.

The lead (preamble) explains to both search engines and visitors what your page is about. Like on a page, you cannot insert images in the lead.

Create a landing page

Go to Content, select Add Content, Landing page. Here you can see that Title and Subsite are the only required fields. The lead allows a maximum of 500 characters.

Call to Action use this if you have one or two actions that you would like the visitor to perform, for example Apply for the course. You will probably use it quite rarely.
Media: Here you can insert the large top image that is typical for landing pages.
Included in and Language version: Links to pages and landing pages creating a context for your content, and to the Swedish version if there is one.
Menu links: Use these for the main links on your landing page
Content: On a landing page Promo is the only block available! In return, you can put them in groups of 1-5.

Create context with landing page

In the next exercise, you create a landing page and link it to the pages you created in previous exercises. Therefore, in the exercise, you also go into these pages and make Included in-links on them to the landing page. Included in-links are important for creating context for the user in Drupal. Therefore, think carefully about how you use them and how you think the user moves between the pages.