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  • Create a new web page
    • Go to ‘Create Content’, then ‘Page’
    • Enter a title for your page
      • This should be something descriptive
      • If you use keywords in the title, it will help your search engine rankings.
      • Make sure each page of your site has a unique title.
    • Enter the Menu settings
      • Menu link title is the text people will click to get to this page.
      • Parent Item dictates where the link appears. Most standard pages would be set to ‘Menu’ (in the left column) or in ‘Primary Links’. But you should experiment with this to see where you want to place things.
    • Body: Add the Content of the page
      • This includes a WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get). It works like a simplified version of Microsoft Word. All of the functions of the editor are accessible with icons across the top of the editor. If you scroll over the icons, their names will be displayed so you can find what you need. At this time, the Justify Text commands (right, left, center) are not activated.
      • Adding TEXT
        • You can type directly into the editor. ‘Enter’ starts a new paragraph, ‘Shift and Enter’ makes a new line/line break, (like ‘return’ on a typewriter).
        • This editor allows you to paste text directly from Microsoft Word, Notepad or even another web page (don’t copy other people’s text without permission, it will get you sued).
        • Avoid mistakes by writing all of your content in Word, spell checking, proofreading and saving a copy on your computer, THEN pasting into your web page editor.
        • Achieving a Pro Look
          • Don’t get too fancy. A hallmark of amateur web pages is mixing different fonts, font sizes and colors. For most of your text, the default settings will look best. Using the bold or italics command here and there can help with emphasis, but for the most part, anything further will only serve to make your content look messy.
      • Adding Images
          • HINT: To be safe, after you have all of your text in place, go ahead an save your page. Then open it for editing again to add images.
          • See the adding images article.
    • URL Path Settings (not required)
      • Great help for search engine rankings. This establishes the address of the webpage.
      • By default, web page addresses look something like this; http://www.yoursite.com/node/1
      • By entering a custom URL path for your page, the address can be something like this; http://www.yoursite.com/about_us
      • Try to use key words whenever possible, this will help search engines list your pages appropriately.
      • Don’t use spaces or punctuation and try to keep it short. Let’s say your website is about car repair and you create a page about fixing brakes on a Ford F150; you could use ‘ford_f150_brakes’ but not ‘Fixing brakes on your Ford F150’
    • Publishing Settings
      • If you’re satisfied with your page, then set it to ‘Published’. Otherwise, you can save it without publishing so you can finish working on it later.
      • If you would like for this content to appear on the home page, check ‘promote to home page’. If you would like for this to be the only content on the home page, then make sure it’s the only page marked as such. You can have multiple items on the front page, they’ll appear as articles with the title as the headline.
      • Sticky at the top of lists just means that this will appear higher in menus than items not marked as ‘sticky’.
    • Click ‘Save’ and you’re done!