Should There Be Both Primary and Secondary Pages?

There are several ways to handle page templates. You can assign one primary page and one secondary page for every section of your site hierarchy.

The primary page is the web page that users see when they go to that section on the Web site (similar to the default page on a conventional Web site). The information on the page is statically linked. Contributors can change the contributor data file or the native document on the primary page, or the information in the data file through the contributor interface.

The secondary page is a page that can have its content dynamically placed. A secondary page can have static content, but what makes secondary pages useful is their ability to have dynamically-placed content.

You can create a site comprised entirely of primary pages, but then you'll have to create new sections with new primary pages in order for the site to grow. By using secondary pages, your site can grow on its own from additional content submitted by contributors, and you, the designer, do not have to do anything. Your site becomes much more scalable with secondary pages.

Primary and secondary pages can have the same page template. The page template is not related to whether the page using the template is primary or secondary.