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Edit Page Help

Some things appear on every "Edit Page" page. There is usually a default value for them already picked for you so you don't have to worry about them, but if you want to make some changes, here's how.
  1. Change the Category of a Page
  2. Change the Order of a Page in the Table of Contents
  3. Rename your Pages: Change the Title of a Page
  4. Rename your Pages: Change the Link Text in the Table of Contents

Categories: There are currently six categories for pages on your web site. We have tried to give you meaningful categories, so that all of your pages could fit logically somewhere.

To change the category a page link appears under, click on the down triangle next to the category box like the one below. Choose the category you think is best for the page you are working on. When you publish the page, look for it under the selected category.

Work in Progress is a special category. No one can see anything in the Work in Progress category unless they have logged in using a Username and Password that allows them to edit your site. Use it to try out things, or to prepare pages for review before they go live.

As soon as you change the category from Work in Progress to one of the other categories, it will be live on your site.

How to Enter a Number to Specify Page Order Within Category

You can change the order of the pages in each category by specifying a number. It's a little tricky, however. Read on.

Question:  When I put my pages or my events in order, they sometimes come out in the wrong order? Why?

Answer:  The computer reads the numbers in the page order field as if they were letters, that is, if you had more than ten numbers, 1 would be followed by 10 instead of 2. To use single numbers, add a leading zero: 01, 02, 03 etc.

For ordering pages within categories on the Left Side Navigation, we recommend that you number the pages 10, 20, 30, 40 etc. That way, if you want to reorder them later or add a new page, you can insert pages in between: 12, 27, 43 etc.

To number the events on your Events page, we recommend using a six number yymmdd format. For example:

  • 010101 for January 1, 2001
  • 011231 for December 31, 2001
  • 020907 for September 7, 2002

Rename your Pages: Page Title and Link Text

The Page Title appears at the head of your page, right below your logo or company name, just before any content.

The Link Text appears in the Left-side Table of Contents and should should be quite short. Try very hard to keep it from splitting into two lines.

It is best to use the same words for your Link Text and your Title so you don't confuse your visitors, but you could elaborate the Title a bit. For example, your Link Text could be: "Parties in April" and your Title could be "Parties in April - Springfield Celebrates."
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