Homepage

A homepage is typically the first asset a visitor sees when arriving at your domain. Homepages have attractive text and media to increase engagement with the visitor.

For a wire frame example of what this content type can look like on your site, see Homepage design.

Creating homepages

1. In the header, click .
2. From the Create list, select Homepage.
3. Using the following table as a reference, complete the fields as needed.
4. Complete your site's workflow and publish the homepage.

Main

Field	Description
Internal Name	Enter an internal name for this asset. Brightspot uses this name internally, such as in the search panel and recent activity widget. This name is not visible to visitors to your site.
Content	Enter the asset's content by selecting and configuring a module. The module is visible to the visitors to your site. For more information, see Modules.

SEO

Field	Description
Title	Text appearing in the asset's <title> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title.
Suppress SEO Display Name	If toggled on, your site's name will not appear in the <title> tag and subsequently in search results.
Description	Text appearing in the asset's <meta name="description"> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description.
Robots	Text appearing in the item's <meta name="robots"> tag. For an explanation of the available options, see Robots Meta Directives.
Max Image Preview	Select None, Standard, or Large to set the maximum size of the image preview that search engines can show for this asset in search results. If you make no selection, Brightspot uses Large. Brightspot ignores this setting if noindex is selected in the Robots field.

Overrides

Logos & Icons Overrides

Field	Description
Logo	Select a new image to serve as the logo that displays on this asset. For information about creating a logo, see Image Logo.
News Publisher Logo	Select a new image to serve as the news publisher logo that displays on this asset.
Default Promo Image	Select an image to use when this asset appears as a promo and has no promo image of its own. If you leave this field blank, Brightspot uses the inherited default promo image.

Layout Overrides

Field	Description
Hat	Select one of the options to override the inherited hat. For details, see Hat.
Header	Select one of the options to override the inherited header.
Banner	Select one of the options to override the inherited banner. For details, see Breaking news banner.
Footer	Select one of the options to override the inherited footer. For details, see Footer.
Above	Select one of the options to override the inherited Above layout block. For details, see Above.
Below	Select one of the options to override the inherited Below layout block. For details, see Below.

Header Overrides

Field	Description
Logo	Select one of the options to override the inherited logo in the header.
Navigation	Select one of the options to override the inherited navigation in the header. For details, see Navigation.
Search	Select one of the options to override the inherited search in the header.
Language Menu	Select one of the options to override the inherited language menu in the header.

These fields apply only when the page's header is a Standard Header.

Share Overrides

Field	Description
Share Title	Text appearing in the asset's title when a visitor shares the asset. automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title.
Share Description	Text appearing in the asset's description when a visitor shares the asset. automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description.
Share Image	Image appearing in the asset's image when a visitor shares the asset. automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by selecting a new image.

Site Map

Field	Description
Change Frequency	Select an option from the list to denote how frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often search engines crawl this asset. See the <changefreq> tag definition in Sitemaps XML format.
Priority	Enter a value to designate this asset's priority over other URLs on your site. Valid values are 0.0 to 1.0. This allows you to relay to search engines which pages you deem most important for crawlers. For more information, see the <priority> tag definition in Sitemaps XML format.

Advanced

RSS Settings

Field	Description
Disable Feed	Toggle on to remove this asset's RSS feed. (A visitor's RSS reader may retain a previously retrieved feed.)
Render Full Content	Toggle on to deliver an asset's entire text—not just the title or headline—to the RSS feed as plain text.
Enabled Feed Item Types	Select the content types to which these settings apply, or leave blank to apply the settings to all content types. For example, if you are publishing a section, you can select Article in this field so that these settings apply only to articles with a section.