Manage Pages
Clicking on ‘home’ tab takes you tothe page list screen. From here you can add, edit, preview, publish,un-publish, delete or un-delete pages within your website.
Add a page
1. Click on the ‘Pages’ tab.
2. Under the heading ‘Add a Page’, click the link that’s says ‘Click here to add a new page’.
3. Enter the page title, as it will appear in the site’s navigation.
4. Choose which template the page should use.
5. Choose the parent page. This will determine where your new page will appear in the site’s structure and navigation. Consider the example below:
Home
---- Site Area A
-------- Site Area A sub page 1
-------- Site Area A sub page 2
---- Site Area B
---- Site Area C
Home is a parent page of Site Area A, Site Area B & Site Area C. If we wanted to add an additional page at this level we would select ‘Home’ as the parent page. If we wanted to add an additional sub page for Site Area A we’d select ‘Site Area A’ as the parent page.
6. Enter a number to represent the priority the page will have within your navigation. The higher the number, the further up the menu the item will appear. The value required here is relative to the other pages of your website and as such there is no strict rule for determining the value required here, if after entering your initial value you find that your page is not displaying in the desired position you may need to confirm the priority values of existing pages (continue to Step 10 then follow the instructions below for checking and adjusting the navigation priority value).
8. If you want to delay the publication of your page, enter a date and time it will be published after. If you wish the page to be published immediately leave the date as its default.
Please note that changing this on an already published page will unpublish it until the time set.
9. Click ‘Save’. Please note that although this saves the page, it won’t be displayed on the live site until it has been published.
10. Your page has been added, before it can be published you need to add content, see the next section
‘Manage Content’.
Note: Adding a page to the site automatically adds it to both the navigation and the sitemap – although it won’t be displayed on the website until the page is published.
Checking and amending the navigation priority
To check the navigation priority value of an existing page
1. Click on the ‘Pages’ tab
2. Locate the page you wish to find the navigation priority value for and click edit
3. Click on ‘Page Settings’ in the top bar
4. Look for the value in the field named ‘What priority should the new page have in the navigation menu’ and make a note of this number
5. Click ‘Cancel’ in the top bar and return to the ‘Pages’ view
6. Locate the page you wish to move in the navigation and click the edit icon
7. Click on ‘Edit Meta Data’ in the top bar
8. Amend the value in the field marked ‘What priority should the new page have in the navigation menu’. Make this value higher than the one noted above to make your page appear above the noted page in the navigation. Make this value lower than the page value noted above to make your page appear lower in the navigation.
Manage Content
Find a Page to Edit
1. Click on the ‘home’ tab.
2. Under the heading ‘edit a page’ there is a list of pages. Use the + icons on the left to navigate through the list which represents the site’s structure. Nested pages can be shown and hidden by clicking on the + icon to the left of the page name.
Right click on a page to bring up some options. These depend on the published state of a page:
Deleted (light grey text)
Published (green)
Unpublsihed (orange)
3. These tasks can be carried out by clicking on the icon; if an icon isn’t present it’s because that action is available for the specific page in its current state.
Page - Edit
1. Click on the ‘Edit’ icon.
2. The page will appear as it looks on the live site, underneath a top bar with the options to ‘Save’, ‘Cancel’ and ‘Page Settings’.
3. Clicking ‘Save’ will save any changes you’ve made but won’t publish them to the live site, see below for details on how to publish your changes.
4. Clicking ‘Cancel’ will return you to the page list and won’t save your changes.
5. Clicking ‘Page Settings’ will open a panel that allows you to change the core details about a page including it’s location within the navigation. The following fields are available in the Page Settings panel:
General tab:
Title
The page title
What template should the page use?
This displays which template was selected when the page was created and is not editable
Which parent page should the new page belong to?
This specifies where the page lives within the site structure and navigation.
What priority should the new page have in the navigation menu?
Specify a numeric value for where the page will appear in the navigation. The higher the number, the further up the navigation the item will appear.
Hide this page from Navigation
Hide this page from site search
What date and time should the page be published after?
Use this to delay display of a published page until a future date. Please note that if you are using a delayed page launch you must still publish your page in the main page list view.
Changing this on an already published page will unpublish it until the time set.
Search Optimisation
HTML Title
Page description
A brief description of the page. This is helpful for search engines and also gets displayed in Publisite’s own search results.
Meta keywords
A list of keywords relating to the page separated by commas. Again these are used by search engines.
Friendly URL
Add a 'friendly url' and make it easier for users and search engines.
More info on SEO options can be found
here.
1. Once you have finished editing the Page Settings you can click the ‘Page Settings’ link again in the top bar to hide this data. However, please note that your amends will not be saved until you click ‘Save’ in the top bar after you have finished making all the required amends to the page.
2. Editable content on a page is indicated by a green edit icon as illustrated in the top bar. There may be any number of editable areas on a single page.
To edit a piece of content on a page, click on the icon. A pop-up box will appear; the number and type of fields will be dependent on the piece of content you are trying to edit. Edit the fields and click close. Two examples of these edit windows are shown below.
If editing content using the WYSIWYG editor, there are a number of preset text styles available to be applied to your content. To apply a text style, highlight the text and select the desired style in the ‘Styles’ dropdown list.
