Here is a brief introduction to single plain pages. Single plain pages are the general purpose workhorse of many websites.
A single plain page is much like a Word Document. You have complete control over the format of your page with a blank white canvas to start with. However, having this control can make it harder to do more complex things.
Single plain pages are great for
- Home Pages,
- About Us pages,
- Terms and Conditions,
- Contact Us.
Single design pages are not good if you want to have a lot of links to subservient pages... e.g. if you have
- staff pages,
- testimonials,
- FAQ,
- news,
- events
- etc....
We have many other page templates more suited to those formats. It doesn't matter which format you use, your eventuating pages will still be as easily managed as a single design page, however, your index page will be more easily managed. An index page is the page which contains all the links to the deeper pages. An index page often has a short summary of the information on the eventuating pages.
However, you know your content best, and you may decide that single plain pages give you what you want. In this section of the FAQ, we will teach you how to achieve many of the things you didn't know you could do.
The CMS broadly speaking has two page types - editable content pages and templated pages e.g. shopping pages
This example shows you how to add a new web page to your existing website
You can drag-drop reorder your pages in the CMS
You can duplicate a page via the OPTIONS tab when editing a page.
How do I make a page hidden? Whats the different between hidden from menu and hidden from everyone? How hidden are the pages?
How to restrict who can view a Page.
Via the Page Options you can choose to keep the page accessible, but hide the page content for a period of time. You can also replace the content with a custom message while hidden.
We have a large selection of pre-formatted pages ready to go for whatever purpose you might need. Here is an explanation of some of the most useful
How do you choose which page appears when someone arrives at your site?
An overview of the options available when using a blog page
News pages are the standard Information page type that allows you post detailed news posts with an index page providing a date, summary and optional thumbnail image
Submenu page types are great for keeping pages organised under a single page, keep track of changes as they are made
Here is a brief introduction to single plain pages - the general purpose workhorse of many websites.
When you add a new page button, the button name automatically becomes the Page Title. To delete or rename this title...
If you want to change the layout of a page there are a couple of places to do it
You can set the number of thumbnails or list items to show on Gallery, News, Blog, Ecommerce pages via the page options area.