Creating new pages

Your site contains a template page called ‘newPage.htm’.  This page has been set up to include links back to the School home page and to the home page of your site. Our advice is to open ‘newPage.htm’ and then select ‘File’, ‘Save as’ to create a new page – remember to save the page with a new name. Don’t simply click the new page icon as this will create a blank page without any means for you to add the navigation information.

This is how 'newpage.htm' will look. Under the first bulleted list, the text 'Home page of your site' will show your own site listed.

Your page title goes here - set as a heading 2

Navigation trail

  • Links to content items above this page
  • Home page of your site
  • Replace this text with further links as required - each new link should be a separate item
     
  • Links to content items below this page
  • Replace this text with links as required - each new link should be a separate item
     
  • Links to related items
    Replace this text with links as required - each new link should be a separate item

Your page content starts here - replace this text with the information you want to appear - don't forget to 'save-as' and rename this page before you start changing any content and once you have finished, remember to remove the 'don't publish' restriction.

The content of the new page explains what needs doing: first you should replace the page title text with the actual page title, ensuring that the text is a heading size 2.

Immediately below the page title is a table – this table won’t appear on the page once it has been published. Instead, the links within the three lists are used to generate the navigational information that appears on the left and right (if required) of the published page. You should not delete this table from the page.

Below the navigation table is where you should add the content you want to appear on the new page. Simply replace the text already on the page with that you want to add. The formatting of the text is exactly as in the general web handover notes; you’re free to add text, images, tables, links, etc.

To create a new page:

  1. Open ‘newPage.htm’

  2. Select 'File' and then 'Save As'

     
  3. Select and double click on the folder into which your new page needs to be stored

  4. Rename the page to match its new title and finish the file name with .htm so that it remains a Web page. Make sure the file name does not contain any blank spaces between words.  You can use underscore to separate words or simply join them together and use intercaps to distinguish the words eg 'informationForNewStudents.htm' and not 'information for new students.htm'

  5. You are now ready to add new text to the page. First you should replace the page title text with the actual page title of your new page, ensuring that the text is a heading size 2.  The School house style is to use sentence case eg 'New page title' rather than 'New Page Title'.

     
  6. When you have selected a title for your page you will need to copy this into the page title via Page properties. See Setting the page title.

     
  7. Immediately below the page title is a table – this table won’t appear on the page once it has been published. Instead, any links you add within the three lists are used to generate the navigational information that appears on the left (and right if required) of the published page. You should not delete this table from the page.  Only linked text will appear on the published version of your page.  See Creating a hyperlink in the navigation table

     
  8. Below the navigation table is where you should add the content you want to appear on the new page. Simply replace the text already on the page with that you want to add. The formatting of the text is exactly as in the general web handover notes; you’re free to add text, images, tables, links, etc.

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