Composing a page
A page sits on a 48-column grid, one zone at a time, without writing a line of code.
An Aurora page is not a block of text with pictures dropped into it. It is a 48-column grid you place zones on and drag the edges of. The page you are reading was built that way.
What you can place
- Rich text: headings, lists, quotes, callouts, tables, separators.
- A picture, a video, a button, a syntax-highlighted snippet with line numbers.
- One publication picked by hand, or a list of publications picked by rule that keeps itself up to date.
- A form of the site, placed at the foot of the page that has just justified it.
- A table of contents built from the page's own headings, which cannot be forgotten when a section is renamed.
- A stack: a zone holding others, for a tall picture beside two stacked zones.
A zone can leave the column and span the viewport, sit on a background that lifts it off the page, or change width by screen size. The arrangement is written once and holds for every language of the site.