I am creating my graphic design portfolio and would like to edit via the wix studio page editor. Is it possible to create a master page or section where the top content is dynamic without using cms? Edit on a static page?
Each project is going to take the form of a case study; and the content below will be varied; some will have carousels, others enbedded pdfs and supporting text. But it’s important the top look similar. I’m very particular about titles and if they are long I may want to split it into two lines.
It would be nice to have dynamic sections to use elsewhere on static pages. Basically this is doing what is done in Illustrator, InDesign.
Can dynamic static pages be created in wix studio… master pages, or templates? Or is there a way to use the cms and edit from each indivual item page, as I need the content below to contain different elements; i.e. slides, video.
There is nothing like a ‘dynamic static page’. You can have dynamic pages AND static pages. You can have upto 100 static pages on your site. But dynamic pages are unlimited and are generated automatically based on content in your database.
Dynamic pages are meant to be used where you’d have the layout of multiple pages remain the same, but the content is fetched from a CMS database and changes dynamically. So for each row in your database, you will have a dynamic page.
You can watch this webinar which will give you much more insight on using dynamic content to build your site:
In layman terms, a dynamic page is very similar to a static page, it’s just that you have the option to ‘link’ elements to a CMS database. So you can still have static content by very simply NOT linking them to your database.
But what you cannot do is change or modify the layout of a dynamic page. You can only modify the content of these elements.
Lets say you have a video for one item, and for the other item you have a gallery that’s linked to the slider, but no video. In this case - since the layout of the dynamic page will remain the same, your first dynamic page will still show a slider with default preloaded images, and your second dynamic page will also still show a video player element with a default video even if you haven’t added a video for that item in the CMS.
While this cannot be done natively, you can still use code to hide / show elements based on the data in your CMS, but that is a more advanced topic and you can have a read on that below if you are interested to learn more:
Hi Rebecca
I think what you’re looking for is a simple solution. The way I would do it is: Create A dynamic page (with the Hero Section and Title linked to the Element). This way if you go to www.yourdomain.com/cases/study1 the title of Study1 will be shown.
Then below the hero section add a Rich-Content element (also connected to the CMS). Then you can edit the layout of each dynamic page seperately while still using dynamic pages. This way you can edit everything from the CMS. Of course the Rich-Content Element has some limitations, but in most cases it’s a viable option.
