CMS Implementations Deck

Page composition changed the way projects were planned. Content modeling moved from the page to the element level, and templating was about enabling ways to combine elements to form a larger whole.

But not every page needs to be composed. Simple templated content still has a place, and, honestly, editors don’t want to compose every page. It would get tedious, and they would have the lingering worry that they were just repeating the same layout combinations over and over. If you wanted to change that, you’d need to do it everywhere – people talk about “content re-use,” but for some reason, they don’t put much value on “presentation re-use"…which is another name for templating.