How Do I Add New Pages To My Site?

First you will need to login to the administrative pages of your website. If this is the first time logging into your site you MAY only have the Home page available in the menu. You can add "child pages" to the home page. So let's begin there.

Click on "Home" and you will see several links at the top of the page used for managing the properties of your website. As follows:

To add a new page you need to click the Add Child Page link. This will open another page where you will begin the new page creation process. You will notice several option boxes. The first being Page Type, as follows -

The most commonly used Page Types will be the HTML and the Page Gallery. An HTML page is a very basic website page type and can be used to display any kind of text, graphic, widget, audio or video file, etc. The only difference between an HTML page and a Page Gallery is that the main portion of the page in a Page Gallery is an HTML page, but it also offers a visible "index" of it's child pages in a column on the right-hand side of the page. This index can display a photo or graphic, a heading and a summary of each child page associated with this "parent" page along with a link to the full-page view for each child page. Here is an example of a Page Gallery -

Notice the "index" down the right-hand side of the page. Where as an HTML version of this page wouldn't have an index.

We will go over the other page types in another part of this How To section. For now, lets just choose to add a Page Gallery page type. So, select that from the Page Types.

The next field is URI Name. It is important that this section have no spaces or punctuation included in it! Think of this as the page extension in the URL, or website address, for this page. You _may_ use mixed upper and lower case text, all upper case or all lower case text. For example: MyNewPage, MYNEWPAGE, or mynewpage will all work equally well. This field should correspond with the actual name of the page you are creating.

Next is Page Title - You will want to choose an appropriate page name, such as Contact Us, Support, Features, Staff, Our Team, Articles, About Us, etc. Spacing and proper capitalization are useful here.

Menu Title - You only need to enter something here if you intend the page to appear in the site menu. Now, you might think that all pages should be visible in the menu. Not so. If you have a site with hundreds of pages, you likely won't want all of them to show up in your site menu. They _could_ appear in a "nested" fashion, showing up in drop-downs as child pages. But some you can make only viewable, for instance, in the index section of a Page Gallery. Putting all of these pages in the menu might just look cluttered and redundant. If you decide to include this page in your menu, the name here should be the same as that of the Page Title. For this example, lets choose to put the new page in the menu, so you will want to fill this field in.

Sequence - This refers to the order in which you display your pages. The system automatically assigns each page a "sequence" number, based on date and time. But you may determine your own sequence to move a page up and down on a given page or index or even in the site menu. The smaller the number, the further down it will appear in the sequence. For instance, if you assign your pages with sequence numbers: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 - then 500 will appear at the top of the page and 100 will appear at the bottom with the other pages between them. You can play around with this and number your pages in any fashion you would like to get a feel for how you can move them around. Since this is your first new page, we won't worry about assigning it a sequence number for now, so you can leave this blank.

Is In Menu - This little box is important! It determines whether a new page you create is viewable in the menu or not. If you check this box, the new page will show up in the menu. If you don't, it won't. For this example, please check this box.

Is Published - This is also a very important little check box! It is entirely possible to create a page and view it "in test mode" with this check box unchecked. But if you leave it unchecked, it won't be visible to you when you log out of your admin pages, nor will the rest of the world be able to see it! So, this is a great tool for creation of your page before you are ready to have the world see it. Just don't forget to go back and check it when you want the page to go LIVE! For this example, please check this box.

Items Per Page - You can set this to any number you like, but the default is 10. This determines how many child pages, in this instance, can be visible on the page. You may just leave it at the default for now.

Master Page and Theme - We don't need to worry about these for now. These fields have to do with design and layout for your entire website. Please do not edit these boxes.

Headline - Write a nice headline for your page.

Summary - This will also be included in the index view of the Page Gallery, so give a brief overview of what the page is about.

Slide Show Fields - This is where you would define slideshow parameters if we were to want one to appear on this page. We will go over that in another section, so just skip these fields for now.

Upload Image - This is an important element for every page. *Please note - Every page may have a designated photo or graphic associated with it. You may browse the files on your computer to locate this image. It is important that you have the image properly resized to scale well on your website. 72dpi is ideal for display and loading on a website and you don't want the actual image dimensions to be huge, either. That said, you may now browse and find a small-ish image to use for our example page here. This image will appear in the index version of the page on the Page Gallery and you may choose to display it, or not, on the actual web page we are creating. We will cover that in a moment here.

All of the following options are available to have viewable on a page or not. The choice is up to you -

Show Headline on Page, Show Summary on Page, Show Image on Page, Show Details on Page. This is where you would leave any item unchecked if you don't want it viewable on the actual page. for now, please check all of the boxes.

Details Section - This is the actual Text Editor portion of the page. We will get into all the available options here in another section. For now, please just type a few sentences.

Submit Content Button - This saves your work and takes you to the page you have just created! Voila! You have just created your first of many new Child Pages!