Pages
Pages are the most basic building block for content. They’re useful for standalone content (content which is not date based or is not a group of content such as staff members or recipes).
The simplest way of adding a page is to add an HTML file in the root
directory with a suitable filename. You can also write a page in Markdown using
a .md
extension which converts to HTML on build. For a site with
a homepage, an about page, and a contact page, here’s what the root directory
and associated URLs might look like:
.
|-- about.md # => http://example.com/about.html
|-- index.html # => http://example.com/
└── contact.html # => http://example.com/contact.html
If you have a lot of pages, you can organize them into subfolders. The same subfolders that are used to group your pages in our project’s source will exist in the _site
folder when your site builds.
Changing the output URLPermalink
You might want to have a particular folder structure for your source files that changes for the built site. With permalinks you have full control of the output URL.