Creating a new page

  1. In the main menu at the top of the screen, click Pages.
    The Pages page appears, displaying one of the following:
    • If you have not created any pages, the system displays the following in the center of the screen:

      NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, the first page you create is in the default language.

    • If you have already created one or more pages, the system displays the sitemap and the following button in the toolbar of Pages page:

      NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, before creating a page, you must first choose the language, in which you want to create the page. Select the language from Languages dropdown box in the right of the page.

    • For more information about different languages, see Languages
  2. To create a new page, click the Create a page.
    The Create a page page appears.
  3. Enter the following information for the new page:

    Name

    (mandatory field)

    The page name that you choose is used by the system to create auto-generated navigation links. The name must be as concise as possible.

    EXAMPLE: Company Info 

    Put this page…

    radio button group

    Use this radio button group to select the new page's parent page. The section determines where the page sits in the hierarchy of pages.

    Choose between the following:

    • At the top level
      This will be a top level page that has no parent.
    • Under parent page…
      A treeview with existing pages appears.
      Select the page that will be parent of the page you are creating.

      NOTE: If you have not created any pages yet, choose At the top level button. You can make the page a subpage of another page later, using drag and drop.

      For more information, see Structuring the pages of your website.
    URL

    The URL is automatically generated based on the page name that you have chosen. The URL determines the new page's website address.

    You can choose another URL by clicking Change button and entering the new name in the input field that appears.

    This overwrites the automatically generated URL.

    Show in navigation  If you deselect the Show in navigation checkbox, the page is not displayed in the automatically generated navigation. The page can be viewed only if linked or accessed directly. You can also control the page access by the page's permissions.

    For more information, see Setting permissions for pages.

    Group page If you select the Use this page only to group other pages checkbox, the page you are creating is going to be a group page.

    Group pages serve as containers for other pages. Group pages do not have their own content. When you open a group page it redirects to its first subpage (child).

    Page redirect If you select This page redirects to another page checkbox, it means the page you are creating does not have its own content. When a user opens the page, it redirects to another page or an external page.

    To select the page, which this page will redirect to, perform the following:

    1. Click Set page to redirect to button.
    2. Select one of the following:
      • Page from this site
        Click a page from the sitemap.
      • Web address
        Enter the URL address of the external page and select, if you want to Open this link in a new window.
    3. Click Done.
    Title for search engines The title used by search engines is automatically generated based on the page name you have chosen.
    You can choose another title by entering a new title or deleting the automatically generated one.
    The page title that you enter in this field is used in search engine results, web browser bookmarks and the web browser's title. The title must be descriptive.

    EXAMPLE: XYZ Company - Company Information.

    NOTE: By default, the title of the page is overridden by the title of the content it displays. You can change this behavior in the advanced mode of the respective widget, by changing property PageTitleModes to one of the following:

    • Replace
      The page title is replaced by the item title.
    • DoNotSet
      The page title is not altered.
    • Append
      The item title is appended to the page title.
    Template In this radio button group you choose the layout of the new page.

    Select one of the following:

    • Use template
      This option is selected by default.
      Under the radio button the system displays the template that will be used for the page.
      To change the template, click Select another Template button.
      A list of all available templates appears.
      1. Select a template in one of the following ways:
        • Click one of the templates displayed.
          You can customize or change the layout template at a later time.
          For more information, see Page layout.
        • Upload your own .master file by clicking Use your own .master file.
          Select a master file from the App_Master folder and click Use Selected.
          To select a master file from another folder, in the upper-right corner of the window, click Browse other folders button.

          For more information, see Page templates.

          For more information about .master files, see Creating a template using Master pages.

          For more information about the App_Master folder, see Website templates file structure.

      2. Click Done.
    • Don’t use template (start from scratch)
      The page does not have a template. You can add a template later.
    Description To add a description of the page, click Description, Keywords.

    The description that you enter is added to the page's header. The description is often used by search engines to provide a summary of the webpage.

    EXAMPLE: Information about XYZ Company's locations, history, corporate directory, employment opportunities, etc.

    Keywords To add keywords, click Description, Keywords.

    The keywords that you choose are conveying additional meaning to search engines and may have SEO benefits.

    EXAMPLE: The keywords for the page XYZ Company - Company Information can be XYZ Company, History, Hiring, Employment, Locations, Contact Information. When you enter the keywords for your page in the Keywords input field, separate them with commas.

    Advanced options By expanding this node, you can configure the following:
    • Allow search engines to index this page
      This option is selected by default and you must deselect it, only if you do not want search engines, such as Google, to find your page.
    • Require SSL
      Improve security by requiring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to communicate with the server.
    • Enable ViewState
      EnableViewState stores the current state of the page and its objects, such as text boxes, buttons, and tables. It helps you not to lose the state of the page during the requests, but it slows down the browser.
    • Include RadScriptManager
      For more information, see  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/radscriptmanager.html.
    • Allow multiple URLs for this page
      1. To configure a page to have more than one URL, select Allow multiple URLs for this page checkbox.
      2. In the input box, enter the additional URLs that you want this page to have.
        Enter one URL per line.
      3. If you want all the URLs that you have entered to point to the default URL of the page, select All additional URLs redirect to the default one checkbox.
        If you uncheck the checkbox, each URL will display the page without redirecting.
    • Caching options
      Configuring caching can increases your performance.
      Select one of the following:
      • As set for the whole site.
        The caching type that is applied to the whole website is applied to this page also.
      • No caching

        NOTE: You must not use caching for e-commerce pages.

      • Standard caching
      • Long caching
      • For more information about applying caching to the entire site or changing the parameters of short and long caching, see Configuring caching.
    • HTML included in the <head> tag
      If you want to include any additional HTML in the <head> tag of the page, enter the HTML in the textbox.
    • Code behind type
      To specify the code behind type for the page, enter it in the field. Use the fully qualified name of the type.
  4. After you have entered all the information, required to create a page, click one of the following:
    • Create and go to add content
      The page is created and the system opens the page in content editing mode.
      In content editing mode you can customize the layout of the page, add content by adding widgets, and apply themes.
      For more information, see Modifying the layout, Adding widgets on your page, and Applying a template to a page.
      After you have finished modifying the page, perform procedure Setting the status of a new page or content item.
    • Create and return to Pages
      The page is created and saved in status Draft. The system returns you to Pages page.
    • Back to Pages
      You return to Pages page without creating and saving the page.

Preview a page on a mobile device

You can view how a page will look like on a mobile device. You can do this in page editing mode.
  1. Open a page for editing.
  2. Click More actions » Preview for Smartphones & Tablets.
    A set of predefined mobile devices appears as thumbnails.
  3. Click a device to see how the page will look like on it.
    You can also view the page in Portrait or in Landscape mode.

To configure how to display pages on mobile devices, see Displaying pages on mobile devices.

Next steps

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