Updated 30 May 2006. Always check the website for the latest version of this page.
Step 1 - Navigate to your channel If your channel is in the training environment you need to follow the path Learning - Training and then Switch to Edit Site to open the list of channels.
Step 2 - Click on Create new page from template in the list of options available to you once to Switch to Edit Site at your channel.
Step 3 - Select a page template from the thumbnails shown
Step 4 - Complete the page template
Please follow the separate notes
Step 5 - Check the page options
At the bottom of the template there are two tick boxes:
1. Page Type - Private
By ticking the box you are choosing to make a page visible only to members of your channel
2. Include in Latest Pages
Most changes you make to your pages will be minor ones - correcting a spelling mistake, for example - or you may be adding pages that are of no interest to anyone outside your channel - minutes of committee meetings, for example.
For this reason the system is set to
not include your page in the 'latest' listings, although it will always appear in your Contents list.
Therefore if you are creating a new page that you do want everyone to see then you need to change NO to YES in the drop-down box.
Step 6 - Preview
You can see how your page will look on the live site by clicking on the option to Preview in the Edit Console. A new window opens with your page in it - close it to return to the template.
Step 7 - Save
Click on the option to Save New Page in the Edit Console.
- Name - enter a filename of your choice (although certain characters are not allowed). Remember that this will become part of the web address of your page
- Display name - is what you will see on the screen in the page listings etc. No restrictions apply here, but it may help to be consistent with the way your other pages are named
- OK that
- OK the warning message
- Wait until the screen displays your page
- The Edit Console stays open ready for your next step
Step 8 - Enter Page Properties
Click on the option Page Properties if you wish to enter more information about your page.
- Name - is the filename of your choice, but certain characters are not allowed. Remember this will form part of your web address (URL).
- Display Name - is what you will see on the screen - no restrictions.
- URL - the web address of your page
- Template Path - shows which template you used to create the page
- Description - appears with the name of your site in the channel catalogue - briefly (in up to 255 characters) describe the type of content in your channel
- Start Publishing - immediately, or at a certain date and time (once approved)
- Stop Publishing - never, or at a certain date and time
- Owner - the username of whoever created the page
- Last Modified - shows the date and time of the latest change to your page
- Important Page - for admin. use only - to identify channel categories
- Hide When Published - select this box to hide this page when the channel goes live
- Web Robots can crawl links - untick if you do not want your content to be found in a search
- Web Robots can index this page - untick if you do not want your content to be found in a search
Step 9 - Publish
Click on the option Submit to publish this page if you have the rights to do so, or to forward it to someone else who does.