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Last modified: 27 February 2025

It is good for your readers and for SEO to provide an overview of you documentation and separate sections. These overviews group the most useful and popular topics or those dedicated to a specific subject. You can also use it to provide a learning path for readers: where to begin, which topics are generic and which are more advanced or cover some specific subsystem.

Consider using the starting page markup for the home page and for any group of related TOC elements. The home page of this help is a good example of an overview starting page: Discover Writerside.

Here is an example of a starting page topic markup:

The <section-starting-page> element has some predefined structure:

  • Use the <spotlight> element for two of the most important topics.

  • Use the <primary> and <secondary> elements for other important and useful topics.

  • If necessary, use the <misc> element for additional relevant topics.

    Add groups of <links> and <cards>. For links, use the <group> element to split them into groups of links.

    By default, additional miscellaneous groups are rendered in two columns. Add narrow="true" to a group if you want to render it in three narrow columns instead

For every <card>, you can add an icon, image, or badge:

  • Use the icon attribute to specify a custom image that will be rendered as a small icon on the card.

  • Use the image attribute to specify a custom image that will take up the whole top part of the card.

  • Use the badge attribute to specify one of the built-in badges included with Writerside.

The following built-in badges are available:

  • academy academy

  • account account

  • branch branch

  • bug bug

  • case case

  • check-list check-list

  • cloud cloud

  • community community

  • computer computer

  • container container

  • creative creative

  • cross-check cross-check

  • cross-platform cross-platform

  • cup cup

  • data data

  • development development

  • documents documents

  • experiment experiment

  • file file

  • filtering filtering

  • folder folder

  • idea idea

  • install install

  • integration integration

  • key key

  • keyboard keyboard

  • learn learn

  • library library

  • location location

  • lock lock

  • mail mail

  • mixed mixed

  • navigation navigation

  • network network

  • offer offer

  • open-source open-source

  • presentation presentation

  • search search

  • server server

  • settings settings

  • start start

  • support support

  • thumb-up thumb-up

  • tools tools

  • top top

  • turn-on turn-on

  • world world