Creating a Page Type & Simple Fields

[00:00] Now that you've broken Mr McD's website into sections, I'll show you how to use Prismic's development tool for creating content models Slice Machine.

[00:07] Below this video, you have an example of how this tool looks with some dummy data. You can play and change the page type to see how this would affect what data an author like Mr. McDonald could enter in this dummy Prismic repository.

[00:18] Adding and removing new fields will result in a different UI for the content authors, so you can begin to see how you're responsible for creating the editing experience of Mr McDonald.

[00:28] Added for you by default in the page types is the non-visual content like the URL represented here by the UID.

[00:34] Simple fields such as this can be added directly to your website code using the API IDs that represent them. I call it a simple field because it is output simply as a string.

[00:44] This non-visual content is added in the Static Zone. The Static Zone is for content that only appears once in a page, usually at the top level. This also includes default fields for SEO titles, descriptions, and images, which you can see in this new tab here.

[00:58] Connecting and disconnecting different Slices in the page type will affect what website sections Mr McDonald has available when building a page.

[01:06] Editing the model of a Slice is done in a different window, as slices can be used across multiple page types. You can learn more about this in the next video.