Adding Pages
Questions
- How do I add a new Page to my website?
- How do I change the Order of the pages in the Navigation?
- How do I change the Names associated with a Page?
- How do I change the Navigation / Menu Names?
- How do I add META tags to a Page?
- How do I Delete a Page?
Answers
How do I add a new Page to my website?
Login to Admin Mode and then hover your mouse over the "Page:" link near the top of the page. This will cause the Page Menu to be displayed. Hover your mouse over the "Pages" option and a sub-menu will be displayed. Click the "Add New Page" option on the sub-menu.
You will be asked to provide some information about the new page as follows:
Short Title: This is the name which will be used in your site's navigation or menus to represent this page. Enter a short, mixed-case name for this page (e.g. "Contact", "About Us", "Products").
Long Title: This name can optionally be displayed at the top of each page or used for other purposes. It should be a short phrase the mentions what the page is for, or what is on the page. The Long Title is included in the page's overall title along with the Site Name and the Short Title.
In order words, the page's overall title is composed of: "Site Name - Short Title - Long Title"
The page's overall title is: (a) Displayed at the top of the web browser window when a user is viewing this page, (b) the default name for user bookmarks or favorites, and (c) is used by search engines to determine what this page is about and to assist with its page rank determinations.
Path: If this new page is a main page which should be included in the site's general navigation, then select the "/" (top) option.
However, if this new page should be added underneath an existing page, or as a sub-page of an existing page, then select the associated "parent" page for this new page. For example, if the new page will contain the product details for product 123, and if you had already created a general Products page with a Name of "/products", then select the "/products" entry as the Path for this new product 123 page.
Name (for URL path): This is the unique sub-address of this new page. It is appended to the site's domain name to generate the unique URL for this page. For example, if your site uses domain name www.example.com and if you enter "contact" for this field, then this new page's URL will be www.example.com/contact . The Name can contain any combination of letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), hyphen (-) or underline (_) characters. It cannot contain any other characters, for example, it cannot contain any spaces, commas or periods/dots. The following Names are reserved and cannot be used: bongo4u, images, includes, javascripts, styles.
The META Description and Keyword fields are discussed in a separate FAQ entry.
Click the [Save Changes] button to create the new page.
How do I change the Order of the pages in the Navigation?
To start, login to Admin Mode.
There are two ways to change the order of pages in your websites.
The first method involves going to the page which is going to be moved. For example, if you wish to move the location of the "Contact" page, then click on the "Contact" link in the naviation area so that it becomes your 'current' page. Hover over the "Page:" link near the top of this page. This will cause the Page Menu to be displayed. Hover over the "Move This Page" option of the Page Menu and a sub-menu will be displayed. If you wish to move this page earlier or higher or sooner in the navigation, then click the "Before" link on the sub-menu. Alternatively, if you wish to move this page later or lower in the navagation, then click the "After" link on the sub-menu.
The second method of changing the order of the 'current' page really has to do with placing the page as a sub-page of another page. To do this, hover over the "Page:" link near the top of the page to get the Page Menu. Click the "Edit this Page" link. On the resulting form, change the "Path" field to the new 'parent' page for the current page. After you click the [Save Changes] button, then the current page will be moved to live below or under its new 'parent' page.
How do I change the Names associated with a Page?
Login to Admin Mode, go to the page which you want to change, and hover over its "Page:" link near the top of the page. This will cause the Page Menu to be displayed. Click the "Edit this Page" link on the Page Menu.
You may update the Short Title and/or Long Title values using this form.
Short Title: This is the name which will be used in your site's navigation or menus to represent this page. Enter a short, mixed-case name for this page (e.g. "Contact", "About Us", "Products").
Long Title: This is included in the page's overall title along with the Site Name and the Short Title. The page's overall title is: (a) Displayed at the top of the web browser window when a user is viewing this page, (b) the default name for user bookmarks or favorites, and (c) is used by search engines to determine what this page is about and to assist with its page rank determinations. In order words, the page's overall title is composed of: "Site Name - Short Title - Long Title"
Click the [Save Changes] button to update the page.
There is more information about each of the above fields in the Add a New Page FAQ entry.
How do I change the Navigation / Menu Names?
Login to Admin Mode, go to the page which you want to change, and hover over its "Page:" link near the top of the page. This will cause the Page Menu to be displayed. Click the "Edit this Page" link on the Page Menu.
You may update the Short Title value using this form.
Short Title: This is the name which will be used in your site's navigation or menus to represent this page. Enter a short, mixed-case name for this page (e.g. "Contact", "About Us", "Products").
Click the [Save Changes] button.
How do I add META tags to a Page?
Login to Admin Mode, go to the page which you want to change, and hover over its "Page:" link near the top of the page. This will cause the Page Menu to be displayed. Click the "Edit this Page" link on the Page Menu.
Scroll past the first few fields on this form. The META tags are located near the bottom of this form.
Meta Description: This should be a long description in sentence format which describes what the user can find on this page. It can be one or a few sentences long. Search engines use the Meta Description field in various different ways, but if it contains a representative description of the page's content then it can be beneficial to the page's search engine ranking for user searches. You should try to have a different Meta Description for each page on your site.
Meta Keywords: This field is optional and if it is populated it should contain a list of keywords that users might use in search engines to locate this page. Some search engines use this information to help locate pages using keywords that do not appear in the written text on the page. Other search engines ignore this field.
Click the [Save Changes] button.
How do I Delete a Page?
Login to Admin Mode and go to the page which you want to delete.
Before you can delete a page from your website, you must first delete all content blocks from that page. To delete a content block, hover over the "Block:" link located just above each content block. This will cause the Block Menu to appear. Click on the "Delete" link on the Block Menu to remove that block along with all of its content. Once deleted, the content cannot be retrieved.
Once you have deleted all content blocks from the current page, then hover over the "Page:" link near the top of the page. This will cause the Page Menu to be displayed. Click the "Delete This Page" link on the Page Menu. The page will be removed.