Adding a Page |
Here's a few rules for getting the best out of adding pages to the system:
Predefined page names The "add page" form gives a list of "known" or predefined pages. Not only does this save you typing out the page name yourself, but it can also allow you to tidy up your navigation bar by only having the major pages linked to on every page. This behaviour can be switched on and off in your site details. As an example, adding a page called "News" (news.html) will list a "News" page on every page on your site. If you then add news1.html, news2.html etc. these won't get listed on every page: but you can use your main "News" page to link to them and have an archive of news articles (as well as just having regular paragraphs of news). You might also consider having the latest news article linked to from the "latest news" or first paragraph on your home page, to let people know there's some new information. Note that the following page names are not used because these will use automatic functions not yet added to the system: Naming rules It's best to stick to letters, numbers and dashes or underscores. Characters such as spaces, full stops, slashes, plus signs, 'and' (&) signs and so on can cause problems on some computers, and so shouldn't be used. Use underscores - "_" - instead of spaces, stick to lowercase letters, and the system will automatically change (for example) "how_to_get_here" to "How to get here" when listing your page. All page filenames will eventually end with ".html" to show that they're web pages; however, there's no need to add this ending to the form, it'll get added automatically. Note Once you add (or remove) a page, all the other pages on the site will be out-of-date until you refresh them. This makes sure that the list of links to pages on your site, generally on the left hand side of each of the pages on your site, recognises that there's been a change. |