Creating your own content pages

You can add as many pages, sub-pages and news articles as you like to build up the content on your site and add items of interest for your visitors.

Click on ‘manage website’ from the home page of your site, and then go to 'Create customised content'. Use this to create text pages on your website. \n

When you’re thinking about creating content for the site, it’s more flexible if you create a folder because a folder can house more than one item within it. It allows you to build in sub-menu pages and add to the content.

For this example, we’re going to create a page rather than a news item, although you can choose to do either. See XXX for creating news articles on your website.

Click ‘save and publish’ if you’d like to display it on the site immediately. If you click ‘save’, your page will be saved, but it will not be displayed on the live website.

To create folders within this website:

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• Click on ‘Manage your website’ and select ‘Create new pages’ \n
• Click on the ‘Content’ (1.) tab \n
• In 'Site Map' (2.) select the web page you want your new page to appear under, for example, click on the name of your website \n
• You will now see options in red for ‘Create Folder’ (group of pages), or ‘Create item’ (page). This enables you to organise your content as you would in Word when you use folders and files \n
• Click on ‘Create Folder’

 
• A form for creating a page of text is shown. It includes: \n
  • Title (3.) - title of group of pages, which will be used as part of the web address for the page \n
  • Body text (4.) – add the text describing the subject of the Folder. By default the text appears in Times New Roman but will appear in Arial on the published page. Highlight any text you want to change. As you pass the cursor over the buttons in the toolbar a small popup label appears telling you the function of each button. Use these to change the text colour, size, font etc \n
  • When you have finished, you can choose to include the page in the navigation. Include in menu (5.) The default is 'No'. If you click ‘yes’, it will be listed on the navigation menu on the Home page with the other pages on the site. \n
  • Show children (the pages in folder) (6.) – usually ‘yes’ to show title of pages in site map below folder title
• You are then given the choice to ‘Save changes’ or ‘Save and Publish’ (7.) ‘Save changes’ - allows you to save and preview your work before making it public OR ‘Save and Publish’ - save your work and immediately publish it to the web. \n
• Select the most appropriate - the folder will appear on the site map, once saved. Select the red 'Preview' link to view your changes. \n
• Once published you may view your updated website by clicking 'Home' in the top left hand corner then click on your page from the navigation side bar. You may need to refresh your browser to see the changes - press F5 on your keyboard or click the refresh link on your browser.

To create pages within this folder:

You can create pages and news items to sit within this folder. Click on ‘create item’, and then ‘create page’.

• Click on ‘Manage your website’ and select ‘Create new pages’
• Click on the ‘Content’ (1.) tab
• In 'Site Map' (2.) select the folder you want your new page to appear under
• Click on ‘Create Item’ (8.)
• Select ‘Page’ from the drop down menu, then click  ‘Go’
• A form for creating a page of text is shown. It includes:
  • Title – title of page
  • Short title – to appear as part of the web address for the page (this is optional)
  • Body text – text describing the subject of the page 
  • Include in navigation menu – usually ‘no’ if a page in a folder. More likely to be ‘yes’ if a single page not in a folder
• You are then given the choice to;
  • ‘Save changes’ - allows you to save and preview your work before making it public OR
  • ‘Save and Publish’ - save your work and immediately publish it to the web.
• Select the most appropriate - the page will appear within the folder on the site map, once saved. Select the red 'Preview' link to view your changes.
• Once published you may view your updated website by clicking 'Home' in the top left hand corner then click on your page from the navigation side bar. You may need to refresh your browser to see the changes - press F5 on your keyboard or click the refresh link on your browser. 
• You can add pictures, documents and other elements using the ‘Assets Library’ tab, see XXX for more details.

To create news articles within this folder:

• Click on ‘Manage your website’ and select ‘Create new pages’
• Click on the ‘Content’ (1.) tab
• In 'Site Map' (2.) select the folder you want your new page to appear under 
• Click on ‘Create Item’ (8.)
• Select ‘News story' from the drop down menu, then click  ‘Go’
• Enter the title, and a ‘teaser’ which is a short summary or introduction to the news article and should be interesting enough to entice your readers to read the rest of the piece.
• In the main body of the page, type in the full news story.
• You are then given the choice to;
  • ‘Save changes’ - allows you to save and preview your work before making it public OR
  • ‘Save and Publish’ - save your work and immediately publish it to the web.
• Select the most appropriate - the page will appear within the folder on the site map, once saved. Select the red 'Preview' link to view your changes.
• Once published you may view your updated website by clicking 'Home' in the top left hand corner then click on your page from the navigation side bar. You may need to refresh your browser to see the changes - press F5 on your keyboard or click the refresh link on your browser.
• You can add pictures, documents and other elements using the ‘Assets Library’ tab, see XXX for more details.
• You can add in links to other news stories and insert images into your article from the image library. When you choose to select an internal link, you’ll be given a list of pages to choose from. Simply click on the relevant one and click ‘add link’. Likewise, if you choose to add an image to your news article, a list of images which are currently in the image
  library will appear.

From your original page, you can now see that any items you’ve created for your folder are listed. You can edit or delete any of the items within that folder. You can also re-order the items …. or preview that page using the link at the bottom.

A useful function of the site is the search facility. You can search for any page, news article, image or document by entering a key word.