Step 11: Adding Pages

13. Apr, 2010 0 Comments

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to add more pages to your website. Remember Step 9: Writing Content? We’re going to be using that copy to populate your pages with content.

The typical structure for most small business websites is as follows:

Home
About
Products/Services (choose one or the other depending on the style of your business)
Resources (documentation or links to other useful related websites)
Contact Us

A blog’s structure can be very similar:

Home (most recent blog posts)
About
Contact Us

Blogs also have categories for their posts and these often end up as another navigation section on the site; we’ll get to that later.

We’ve already edited our About page, so lets create the others:

Go to the Edit Pages screen

Click on the Edit or Pages menu items to access the Edit Pages screen, then click on the Add New button.

Add page title and content

(1) Add the title of the page, in this case, it’s my products section.
(2) Add the details of your products into the editor
(3) Click the Publish button once you’re happy with your content.

*Please note that I’m not going to get into e-commerce shopping carts at this stage, I’ll leave that for another section entirely.

Admire your work

Ok, my page doesn’t look all that flash but your should. Once your happy click the back button and start adding other pages.

Where to put your copy

Remember the Who, What, Where, When, How & Why copy you wrote in Step 9? Here’s where it should go:
Who = About page
What = Products or Services page
When = Contact page
Where = Contact Page
How = Products or Services page
Why = Home page and anywhere else you see fit.

Showing additional editor functionality

In the next step we’re going to be copy and pasting text from your Word document into your pages, but to do that we need to show the second editor toolbar. Click on the icon on the right of the toolbar to show the second editor toolbar. You now have access to a range of other editor functionality.

Copy and pasting text

It’s good practice to use the Paste as Plain text option when copying and pasting from other documents as it removes any unwanted formatting. Copy the text you wish to add to your page from your Word document, then:
(1) Click the past as plain text icon
(2) Use Ctrl+V to paste the content into the Plain Text tool.
(3) Click the Insert button.