Pages

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Pages display static information, meaning that they do not change frequently. Pages make up your site navigation. You are currently on a page, and if you were to click on any of the items in the menu, you will be taken to a new page.

Step by Steps

Creating a new page

Add a new page using the side or top menu.
Give your page a title by typing into the Add Title
By default, the title of the page will also be the end of the page’s URL, with hyphens replacing spaces. To change the page’s URL, click edit and type in the new slug.
Add content to the text editor box.
Save, schedule, or publish your page.

Editing page banner

You may not have permissions enabled to change the page banner. If you want to gain access to this option, please contact Web Services. If you just want to test out these options, you should have permission to do so on the CCMS Playground

Scroll to the Page Options menu
Under Banner Image Type, select Hosted or Upload
1. To use a hosted banner, insert the name of the hosted image in the Banner Hosted Image field. Learn about hosted banners in Advanced Training Module 2: Hosted Images.
2. To upload a banner, click the Add Image button under Banner Uploaded Image.
Select your desired Banner Opacity.

Parent page

You can make one page appear as the “child” of another page by giving it a “Parent” in the “Page Attributes” menu. This will change the child page’s URL to the following: https://carleton.ca/yoursite/parent-page/child-page.

A parent page is a way to group pages. For example, a parent page could be “Fruit” and its child pages could be “Banana”, “Orange”, and “Pear”. Parent pages are not required but do change the URL and help you stay organized.

To give a page a parent:

Navigate to the Page Attributes menu
Select a page from the drop-down list under Parent
Under Order, insert an order number. If the parent page has many child pages, child pages will be arranged by order number.

A table of contents is displayed at the top of a page. It allows users to easily navigate your page and quickly jump to the content they are looking for. An example of a table of contents can be found at the top of this page.

To enable table of contents:

From the content editor screen, navigate to the Enable Table of Contents menu.
Check the box next to Show Table of Contents for this page.
The table of contents is automatically generated based on your current headings.

Video Tutorial

Transcript

Module 2: Pages

Hello, and welcome to Module 2 of the Basic CMS Training. In this video we will go over pages.

Pages are the most basic and commonly seen content on a website. Pages display static information, meaning the content of a page doesn’t change frequently. Pages make up the site navigation.

This is an example of a page. All the items that you see on the navigation menu here are also pages.

Now I’ll walk you through the page editor. I’ll start by adding a new page.

Like the content editors for all other types of content, the page editor has fields for you to add a title and page content, as well as a Publish menu and a Categories menu. When you add a page title, CMS will automatically generate the page’s URL with the site title being the slug. To change the page’s URL, click “edit” and type in your new slug.

You also have the option to add a banner image to your page. Your banner image will look something like this.

To add a banner to your page, scroll down to “Page Options”, and under “Banner Image Type”, select “Hosted” to use a hosted image or “Upload” to upload your own image. We will talk more about hosted images in the Advanced Training Module 2.

Now, I will upload a banner image by selecting “Upload” and clicking the “Add Image” button here. I will select an image from the media library. You can darken the banner image to improve text readability. Here I will select 50%.

One feature unique of pages is creating a parent-child page hierarchy. You can make one page the “child” of another page by giving it a “Parent” in the “Page Attributes” menu. Under “Order”, you can insert an order number. If the parent page has many children, the children pages will be arranged by order numbers. This will change the slug of the child into “parent-page/child-page”.

Another unique feature of pages is the table of contents. A table of contents is automatically generated based on your current headings, and is displayed at the top of a page. It allows users to easily navigate your page and quickly jump to the content they are looking for. To enable the table of contents, from the page editor screen, scroll down to the “Enable Table of Contents” menu and check the box.

Try It Out!

Now that you have learned about pages, time to try it out!

Create a new page.
Give the page a title. Change the page URL.
Add a banner image to your page.
Give the page a parent page.
Add some headings to the page, and generate a table of contents.

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