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Showing a News-and-Articles Tab Layout on the Home Page with Ditto
A historical layout pattern for putting multiple Ditto-driven streams into a tabbed homepage block.
Tabbed homepage blocks were a common request in the old Evo era: keep the landing page compact, but let visitors switch between two content streams such as news and articles without leaving the page. This pattern used Ditto output inside a tabbed layout to achieve that.
Why it belongs in the archive
- it captures a once-common homepage interaction pattern
- it shows how Evo pages often became small interface compositions rather than simple static layouts
- it adds historical depth to the long Ditto story in Evolution CMS
Why this belongs in the timeline
Tabbed homepage layouts are a good reminder that even old Evo sites were often trying to feel application-like and interactive, not just static brochure pages.
Why this matters historically
Tabbed homepage layouts were a very typical “portal-era” Evolution CMS pattern. Keeping an example like this in the archive helps explain how Ditto was often used not just for one list, but as the orchestration layer for several parallel content surfaces on the same entry page.
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