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<h1 id="page-designs">Page Designs</h1>
<p>A page is displayed by exactly one page design and represented by <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/#type" rel="external" target="_self">Hugo’s reserved <code>type</code> front matter</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="archetypes-home">Home</h3>
<p>A <strong>Home</strong> page is the starting page of your project. It’s best to have only one page of this kind in your project.</p>
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<h3 id="archetypes-chapter">Chapter</h3>
<p>A <strong>Chapter</strong> displays a page meant to be used as introduction for a set of child pages.</p>
<p>Commonly, it contains a title front matter and a short description in the content.</p>
<p>To create a chapter page, run the following command</p>
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<p>If a numerical <code>weight</code> front matter is set, it will be used to generate the subtitle of the chapter page. Set the number to a consecutive value starting at 1 for each new chapter on the same directory level.</p>
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<p>A <strong>Default</strong> page is any other content page.</p>
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