This article goes over the basics of adding new pages to your website and how to re-organize Site NavigationIn this article you will learn how to access the Pages and Edit panels as well as dive into the specific uses for each of the Pages and Edit sections. This article will also highlight the content elements and the importance of your website’s navigation.
Overview
Adding a new page will automatically update the navigation bar which is the bar running across your landing page with all of your main headers. Top-level pages will show up as main navigation items, child pages one level down will show up as dropdown items, and going down each consecutive level will mean there will be dropdown items stemming from dropdown items. It’s best practice better not to not add too many items under one navigation itempage, as this can cause the menu to dip below the browser’s viewport.
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Pages can be re-arranged by clicking and dragging them in the Pages section. When dragging a page to another area in the page tree, hovering the item over a page will highlight that page, and hovering between two pages will show a line where the page’s position will be if the item is dragged there. Letting go of the mouse over a page will result in the page being moved being turned into a subpage of the page it was dragged over, and letting go of the mouse while dragging a page between two others will result in the page being positioned between those two in navigation.
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When selecting a page in the Pages menu on the left side of the editor interface, options for managing the page will drop down underneath. You will see six buttons; Edit, Hide, Delete, Add, Rename and Duplicate. Clicking Edit will open the page in the viewport for editing content. Hide will hide the page from navigation and change its icon in the Pages from a page to an eyeball with a line over it. This will not prevent the page from publishing; it just won’t appear in the navigation menu. Delete will remove the page from the website and all content placed on the page, so be very careful with this feature! Rename will allow you to choose a different name for the page. Changing the name of a page will also change the URL path of the page, so anything “hard-linked” to this page will need to be re-linked. Duplicate will make a copy of the page and all of its content.
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Links can also be included in navigation in addition to pages. To add a link instead of a page, click Add on the Home page in the Pages section if you’d like it to be a top level item, and if you would like it to be a sub-item of a page, select the page and click that page’s Add button. After clicking the Add button, a popup will appear labeled with “Add Page”, although this popup actually applies to both links and pages. Select Link rather than Page, and give the link a name in the text box labeled “Enter the text that will appear in the navigation”. Click the green Save button, and this will open the link popup box labeled “Edit Link Item”. From here, you can choose whether this link is internal (a page on the site), external (a page outside of the site), a document or picture uploaded to the File Manager, or an email address. If “No Link” is selected, this item in the navigation bar will just be text that looks like other items but does not link to anything.
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If you want to keep a page but prevent it from publishing online, right click the page and select Page Properties. In the General tab, toggle off Publish Page and click Save. Not only will this prevent the page from showing up in navigation, but it will prevent it from showing up anywhere on the site.
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Subsites will appear in the Pages section with an arrow icon on the left, and the pages of subsites will not appear until the subsite has been logged in to. To log into a subsite, access will need to be granted with Site Users, but Site Administrators and Developers will be able to access all subsites for a site. Subsites can be logged into from the dashboard, but can be logged into through the Pages section by clicking to select, and then clicking the Edit button. A popup will say “If you wish to edit this subsite, it must be checked out. Would you like to check out this subsite?”. If given access, clicking OK will open the subsite and all subpages.
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Pages and Edit Panel
The left side of your screen contains two main components for controlling your website and these are the ‘Pages’ and ‘Edit’ panels.
Your ‘Pages’ panel will include:
A view of every page in your site and the ability to add, drag, rearrange, and organize them.
The gray ‘Home’ section in the very top of your ‘Pages’ panel contains these basic functions to setup your website the way you want: Edit, Add, Hide, Rename, Delete, and Duplicate.
The Edit feature allows you to make changes to the page you select
The Add feature allows you to add additional child pages
The Hide feature allows you to remove a page’s visibility from your navigation. This page will not deleted, but it will require a link for it to be accessed.
The Rename feature allows you to change the page name
The Delete feature allows you to permanently remove a page
The Duplicate feature allows you to copy a page entirely, including content and layout
Your ‘Edit’ panel will include:
Specific content elements you can drag and drop into designated sections within your Content Editing Workspace located in the main section to the right of your ‘Pages’ and ‘Edit’ panels.
These elements include: Text Editor, Gallery, Title, Slideshow, Tabbed, Moving Text, Video, HTML, Contact Form, Calendar, Button, Picture, and Doc List.
Each of these features listed function exactly the way they are listed. For example, if you drag the ‘text editor’ icon over to your Content Editing Workspace you will see a text box where you can add your own text. If you drag the ‘video’ icon over you will be able to upload a video into that space.
Underneath this section you will see an ‘Advanced’ section that contains more in depth content elements
These elements include:
Banner
Announcement
Staff Directory
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The last section in the ‘Edit’ panel is a grey section known as your ‘Content Clipboard’. Here, you are able to drag and drop content or find elements that you have copied. You can then drag those elements into your Content Editing Workspace.
Please note that if you have a page that is not quite ready for the public to view, you can unpublish that page which automatically hides it and takes it off of your website. You can do this by clicking the page you wish to unpublish, clicking the cogwheel next to that page, staying in the general section under page properties, and moving the toggle switch over to grey to indicate you would like that page to be unpublished. Hit ‘save’ to make sure your new changes reflect accurately on your website!