This page will take you through the steps in creating a page on your website. For more detailed information on editing pages and their settings see: The page form fields.
Adding a new page
- In the main navigation go to: Website / Site tree.
- Click on the Add page icon in the site tree toolbar.
- A blank page form will appear on the right.
Completing the page form
- The Page name field
- Enter the name of your new page. I.e. "About us".
- The URL field
- Enter a string representation of your page name to be used to create links to your page.
- The URL must be lowercase, with no special characters, using hyphens instead of spaces. I.e. "about-us".
- To make things easier, the URL field automatically populates with a formatted version of the page name.
- Click the Save button at the foot of the form to create the new page.
- The new page appear, to the left, in the site tree.
Publishing pages
- New page's by default are unpublished.
- Unpublished pages are symbolised in the site tree with the following icon.
- Unpublished pages will not appear on your website.
- Pages are unpublished by default to allow you to populate them with content before publishing them to your site.
- If you wish to add content to your page before publishing it please read the guide to managing content before completing the following steps.
- To publish your page, use the "Published" option to the right of the page form, at the top of the Info panel.
- Select the Published option's "Yes" radio button and save your page.
- The page is now published and will be displayed on the front end of your website.
- Published pages are symbolised in the site tree by the following icon
What's next?
There is a lot more that you can do with pages in your websites, such as creating page hierarchies, duplicating pages, and building navigation menus. For more information see: The page form fields
You'll also want to add content to your pages. For more information follow the getting started guide to managing content.