Chapter 5: Designing a Website using Dynamic Content

You now have an understanding of the website builder and its allocated operations, especially the features block. As the Features block is used to provide details of operations, there is a requirement for other tools to describe the content of the web pages. Therefore, the Odoo website builder has a Dynamic Content block that will help you in defining the required contents of a website, and will be explained in detail in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following aspects:

• Introducing Dynamic Content blocks
• Exploring the types of Dynamic Content block

By the end of this chapter, you will have the understanding and ability necessary to design a website using the dynamic content block available in the Odoo website builder.

Technical requirements

Although you might be familiar with the website building applications in Odoo, as a beginner in the field you might need an understanding of Odoo and its website builder module. Moreover, a system with Odoo installed or a database will be required to run the platform and design a website using the website builder.

Introducing Dynamic Content blocks

As mentioned in the initial chapters, there are different types of website building blocks in the Odoo website builder and, among these, the Dynamic Content block is considered the third type of available block. While a structure block is used to provide structure to the website and a features block describes the additional features of a company, a Dynamic Content block is used to provide structure to the content, which should be described in the web page.

Furthermore, with various other aspects, such as when receiving an alert or a message to the visitors of a web page, and the other dynamic block comes under the Dynamic Content block classification. You can use these operation blocks for website building and describing the content of a website in an illustrative, as well as an attractive, way.

In the range of the Dynamic Content blocks available in the Odoo website builder, there are approximately 14 types of Dynamic Content block that will...

Exploring the types of Dynamic Content block

The dynamic content blocks in the Odoo website builder application can be described as the ones used to define the contents of a website. Rather than structure or feature blocks, which bring structure to a web page, a dynamic content block will help you to describe the contents of a web page using various block operations available under the classification. In total, there are 16 types of dynamic content block available in the Odoo website builder. However, if you couldn't find a certain block mentioned here under the Dynamic Content blocks, make sure the Developer mode is activated:

• Form block
• Google Map block
• Dynamic Snippet block
• Dynamic Carousel block
• Dynamic Products block
• Viewed Products block
• Products Search block
• Blog Posts block
• Events block
• Newsletter block
• Newsletter Popup block
• Popup block
• Facebook block
• Countdown block
• Discussion Group block
• Twitter Scroller...

Summary

In this chapter, we gained an understanding of the Dynamic Content block under the Odoo website builder. Moreover, you now have an understanding of how to configure various different types of content of a website using Dynamic Content blocks. Furthermore, you have been provided with the ability to integrate external platforms such as the social media and newsletters of your company, and much more, with a web page for the visitors to access. Additionally, you now have an idea as to how the products and services of your company can be displayed on a web page using the various configuration blocks available under the Dynamic Content blocks of the Odoo website builder.

In the next chapter, we will be playing with Inner Content block tools available from the Odoo website builder.

Questions

1. How many types of Dynamic Content blocks are there?
2. Which Dynamic Content blocks help you with the social media aspects of the website?
3. How can you integrate Google Maps with your website using Odoo?

Further reading

• Working with Odoo by Greg Moss, Packt Publishing
• Learn Odoo by Greg Moss, Packt Publishing