We can create many fact sheets for our Plant Catalog, but none of them can be found unless people know the URLs. A summary page (also known as an index page, default page, or cover page) is a page that typically lists pages within a given section. In this chapter, we introduce the concept of default postings and channel rendering scripts and the use of these techniques to create a summary page. Our summary page will list the plants from A-Z and provide hyperlinks to the corresponding fact sheets.
Making a summary page is nice, because if someone only knows the existence of the plant catalog, they can access the fact sheets without having to know the exact name of the plant that they are looking for. Another benefit of using generated summary pages is better link management. Before the days of content management, webmasters manually updated hyperlinks to a summary page. It was a manual and tedious process that often led to HTTP 404...