Build your first page
Build a working homepage for an arts venue from blocks — a banner opener, an intro, a grid of upcoming events, then publish.
Build a complete homepage for Lumen Arts Festival, an imagined arts venue. You start with an empty page and finish with a published homepage that has:
- a full-width Banner opener over the festival's main image,
- a short intro section welcoming visitors,
- a grid of upcoming events that stays current on its own,
- and a shareable preview link so a colleague can sign off before it goes live.
Work through the four pages in order — each step builds on the last.
You need a site with a theme applied
The blocks, templates, and styling in this tutorial come from your site's theme. Before you start, make sure your site has a theme applied — see Managing themes. Without one, the block palette and previews won't have anything to draw from.
Create the page
Add a new page for the homepage, give it a title and address, and open the live preview. See Create the page.
Add a banner
Put a full-width opener at the top with a heading, a button, and a readable overlay. See Add a banner.
Add content and events
Write a short intro, then list upcoming events that update themselves. See Add content and events.
Preview and publish
Check the page, share a preview for sign-off, then publish or schedule it. See Preview and publish.
Where to go next
Blueprints vs templates
How blueprints, templates, and reusable sections differ when you edit them later: a blueprint copies blocks once, while a template and a reusable section stay in sync.
Create the page
Start the Lumen Arts homepage — set its title, web address, and visibility, start from a blueprint or blank, save a draft, and open the live preview.