Creating a new page

Posted July 8th, 2010 by Sean

As you get started with your new business you may find the need to create new/custom pages for your website. Examples of this can include pages for your contact information, sales and promotions, policies, and any other information that you wish to convey to your visitors. In fact, we highly recommend that you spend some time coming up with custom content for your websites. Adding content to your website not only helps personalize it but it also creates additional information for search engines to consume.

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For this tutorial, we’ll be creating a new page for our demo website. We’ve just started our new business and want to put up some contact information in the form of a “Contact Us” page. We’ll be placing the link for this contact page after our “Home” link within our top panel (see red “X” in image below).

Follow the steps below to create your new page:

1. Login to your control panel.
2. Click on the “Content” button.
   

   Click on the "Content" button in your Control Panel

3. Click on “Create New Page” from the “Manage Pages” screen.
4. Enter a name for your new page. This name will be used as the link for this page in our menu.
   

   Enter a name for your new page and the content that is to appear on it.

5. Use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor (see image above) to enter content for you page. This content will appear as the body of the page when viewed. Simply input and style content as you would in any word processor. If you’re an advanced user, you can enter your own custom HTML and Javascript into this form. Simply input your code into the “code view” of the WYSIWYG editor or use the provided “Javascript/HTML” field (above).
6. Assign the page to a panel (i.e. menu). This is where you would like this page to appear. We want our page to appear in our top horizontal panel so we’ll be selecting “Header Menu” from the dropdown list.
   

   Assign page to a panel and set page order (if required)

7. Select an order for this page (see image above). Ordering applies to pages when generating a menu. You may wish to have a page appear before another in a given menu. Simply select a number relative to the other pages in the same panel (menu) to force a custom page order. Otherwise, leave this value at zero and your pages will be ordered alphabetically. Since we want our “Contact Us” link to appear after our “Home” link, we’ll be entering an order of “1” into the “Order” field (since our homepage currently has an order of “0” assigned to it). This will force our “Contact Us” link to appear after our “Home” link.
8. It’s highly recommended that you enter some metadata for your new page. Metadata is used by search engines and directories (among others) to determine relevance of your page to a given query. Actually, metadata isn’t the sole determining factor as there are many other involved, but metadata can be used to influence these results. This step is optional but it will help search engines better index your pages. Click on the “Metadata” tab if you wish to enter some metadata for your new page. Otherwise, skip to step 12.
   

   Add some metadata to your page.

9. Enter a “Meta Title” for you page. This is simply the title of the page as it should appear to search engines and users. You can simply use the name of the page that you created in step 4 or you can create a more descriptive title for your page using this field.
   

   Enter some metadata for your page. Enter a title, description and keywords.

10. Enter a “Meta Description” for your page (see image above). This should be a paragraph containing a description of your new page. This description may be used by search engines while displaying search results to a visitor so ensure that it properly describes your new page.
11. Use the “Meta Keywords” field to enter keywords that describe this page (see image above). Delimit keywords by a comma or space and keep this list short. Do not repeat keywords excessively as this won’t provide any additional benefit and may be seen as keyword spam. You should use keywords that actually appear within your title and page content. Truthfully, the impact of this field in major search engines is believed to be minimal. However, other smaller engines and directories may still use these keywords so be sure spend a little time on these.
12. Click “Save” to create your new page.
    

    Your newly saved page will appear under your control panel.

13. Visit your website to confirm that your new page appears as desired and in the correct place.
    

    Confirm that your new page is where it should be and looks the way it was intended.

You can create as many pages as you need and assign them to any of your panels. The WYSIWYG editor provides you with a lot of functions to help you get your pages looking the way you want them to. We’ll be covering features of the editor in more detail in separate posts, in the meantime, feel free to play around with it.

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