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Creating a Website Page
How to create a new custom website page, what each field does, and what happens after you save it.
Open My Website, switch to Pages, and click New Page. This opens the New page screen, which creates a custom page. Built-in pages such as Home, Contact, and Request Quote are already there and are edited separately.
Fields On The New Page Screen
- Title: the main internal and on-page name for the page, and the name it goes by in the Pages list.
- Slug: the end of the public URL, such as
about-us. It isn’t filled in from the title, so type it yourself. It must be unique on this website and can only use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. Addresses the built-in pages use, such ascontact,request-quoteandblog, aren’t available. - Navigation label: the shorter label shown in the public website menu. Leave it blank to use the title, or keep it close to the title unless you need something shorter for the header.
- Navigation order: where the page sits in the menu. Lower numbers appear earlier, and new pages start at 50.
- Enabled: turn this on if the page should be live as soon as it is created. Turn it off if you want to create the page now and finish the content later.
- Show in navigation: controls whether the page appears in the website menu. This can stay off for landing pages, thank-you pages, or pages you only want to reach from buttons and links.
- SEO title and SEO description: override the website-wide defaults for this one page. Leave them blank to use the defaults from Website Settings.
- Gallery and Gallery position: attach one of your saved galleries above (Top) or below (Bottom) the page content. If you have no galleries yet, Go to Galleries takes you to the Galleries tab.
- Quote form and Position: shown when your plan includes quote forms. They put one of your published quote forms above or below the page content.
- Design type: Visual editor (drag-and-drop blocks) lays the page out with blocks in the drag and drop editor. Raw HTML (paste or write your own) opens the HTML editor instead. The Design card underneath says which editor will open.
A Good Way To Fill It In
- Start with the title and slug: it is easier to settle the public address now than after you have already linked to it from other pages.
- Decide whether visitors should see it in the menu: that choice is separate from whether the page itself is live.
- Create draft pages disabled if needed: the page’s editor saves straight to the page, so creating it disabled lets you build the content without exposing a half-finished page to visitors.
- Pick the design type you want to work in: most pages suit the visual editor. You can change it later on the page’s settings screen.
What Happens After You Create It
- The editor opens: Create page saves the page and takes you straight into its editor, the drag and drop editor for a visual page or the HTML editor for a Raw HTML page.
- The page appears in the Pages list: you can find it straight away with the search box.
- The slug becomes the public path: if the page is enabled, visitors can open that address even if the page is hidden from navigation.
- Coming back to it later: open the page from the Pages list and choose Edit. Its settings screen has the same fields, with Edit design or Edit HTML in the Design card.
Related articles
- Website Pages List: the tab you start from.
- Editing a Website Page: changing the page’s settings after it exists.
- Website Page Editor: designing the page with blocks or writing it in HTML.
- Website Media Library: uploading images before you add them to the page.