Layout Components 1.0 Documentation: Introduction

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Introduction

Layout Components were created to make developing and managing site layouts easy. Namely, they should solve these goals (from a 2005 CFDJ article):

The following goals should also have been included:

Layout Components have been enhanced slightly in the years since that article, but remain fundamentally the same today (this is being written in early 2010).

Here is a sample page using Layout Components (with the optional cf_Template tag):

<cf_Template title="Page Title">

(some content here)

</cf_Template>

The rest of the documentation should make clear how Layout Components meet all of the goals above.