- Go to: Administer -> Content Management -> Create content -> Page
- Enter a "Title", which is required. Keep it unique from any other Page. In most cases, this will be displayed in a header font style above the body content, as well as be used to help construct the unique URL for this page.
- Select the "SiteSection" this page is a part of from the select list. This is used to help organize content of the website.
- If you would like to make this page part of an existing menu, expand the "Menu settings" region.
- Enter a "Menu link title" that will be displayed to the user.
- For "Parent Item", choose the parent menu item for where this page will live in the menu hierarchy.
- The "Body" section will be the main content for the page.
- Enter and format text as you would in a Word document, or other such word processor.
- If you would like to insert a link to an external site, highlight the text that'll become the link, and select the "chain" icon. Enter the URL of the link, if it should open in a new window (the "Target"), and an optional "Title" that'll appear when a mouse is hovered over it. Then press the "Insert" button to create the link.
- If you want to link to an internal page:
- While logged in, open a new browser window and browse to the page you want to link to.
- Put your mouse over the "Edit" tab
- In the bottom part of your browser window, known as the Status Bar, you should see something like "node/23/edit". Make note of the number in that URL.
- Go back to the "Body" section of the Page you are editing. Highlight the text you want as an internal link, and click the "chain" icon. Then, for the "Link URL" add: internal:node/[id] , where "[id]" would be the number of the page you want to link to.
- If you would like to insert an image, click the "tree" icon. For "Image URL", enter the path and filename to that image.
- You can optionally enter an "Image Description" which appears in place of the image for browsers that don't render images, as well as screen readers.
- "Alignment" can be set to force the image to display to the left, right, or center.
- You can override the image's default dimensions if you choose
- To opptionally apply a "Border" to it, enter a number for the border thickness.
- "Vertical space" and "Horizontal space" adds padding to the image for when text is wrapping around it.
- If you have image galleries configured for your site, you can optionally use the "Camera" icon to insert images into the body content.
- When you click the icon, a popup window will appear showing the images you've uploaded and assigned to galleries. Clicking an existing image will let you configure a few settings; much like the "tree" icon, and then allow you to insert an image.
- Optionally, you can choose to upload an image from your local computer by clicking the "Upload" button. Once an image is uploaded, you can then insert into the body content.
- The "Input format" section lets you switch between a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for the body content, to using pure HTML for creating body content.
- If you have the "Nodewords" module configured, and permissions to manage them, you notice a "Nodewords" section. This allows you to manage your meta-keywords and meta-description for this page, which helps in search engine optimization of your website.
- The "Revision information" section allows you create "versions" of a page. For example, if you're editing a page but want to create a backup of what currently exists for this page, you would expand this section, click the "Create new revision" checkbox, and give it "Log message" describing this revision. When the page is saved, you'll notice a new "Revisions" tab, in addition to the "Edit" and "View" tabs at the top of the page.
- The "File attachments" section is another way you can upload and add files / images / media to your content. To do so, expand that section and:
- Browse to the file you would like to attach, and then click the "Attach" button. The file will get uploaded and you'll see it listed above the "Attach new file" field. A couple of things to note:
- To delete the file, simply check the "Delete" checkbox next to the attached file, and when you save the page, it will get deleted.
- To have the file listed at the bottom of the page in it's own area, leave the "List" checkbox checked. Otherwise, uncheck this value.
- To link to this file inline in body content, copy the URL below the description field and either create a link using the "chain" icon, or paste the URL into the "Image URL" field in the insert image icon popup.
- The "URL path settings" field should remain untouched unless you know what you are doing. It's usually configured to create unique, search-engine-friendly URLs based on the "Title" you gave the page.
- "Authoring information" allows you to change who authored the page as well as the published date and time. Usually you will not need to edit this.
- "Publishing options" allows you to set set if the page is published or not. If you want to turn a page "off" but not delete it, uncheck the "Published" checkbox. The other two checkboxes are unused in most cases, so you can ignore those.
- To save your page, scroll to the bottom and click "Save"