Create Your App Home Screen With Lists

In the Thrive CMS, a List is kind of like a category or a container. A list contains multiple pieces of content like pages, web pages, contacts, etc. For example, if you wanted a place in your app for Latest News then you would create a List called Latest News. Then you would post each individual news story as Pages inside the Latest News List.

So the first thing you'll need to do is decide what's going to be on your app's Home Screen, and what's going to be on your app's Menu. You can find further guidance on the difference between the Home Screen and Menu at this Help Centre article.

The Home Screen is the screen that users land on when they open your app. The Main Menu is the menu that pulls out from the left of the screen. You can have the same content on the Homescreen and Main Menu if you want to - it's totally up to you.

Start by making a high level content plan for your app's Home Screen. What do we want to call each of the sections in our app, and what kind of content is going to go in each one? Here's an example of the kind of thing you want to aim for at this stage:

 
Don't throw the kitchen sink at it!

It's tempting to create loads of top-level sections with sub-lists ten levels deep for every possible area of your business, but remember that the more sections and lists you create, the more content that you'll need to fill them up, and to keep them up to date. Start relatively small, build up some content, get user feedback, and add more depending on what your users and business need. Keep it as lean and sleek as possible.

You can always add more content at any time, but there's nothing as sad as a forgotten old section of your app containing outdated information that hasn't been updated in months. It breaks our hearts :(

Speaking of sub-lists (a list within a list), don't forget that instead of sub-sections for different departments, you can use our content segmentation feature to publish content visible to different groups of people, but in the same list!