We just streamlined the process you can use when adding a new page to your website with SiteBuilder. Now it’s easier to add a link in your site navigation menu to your new page. Here’s Jerry to tell you about it – Rochelle.
When you start working on creating a website, you need to decide what links to include in your site’s navigation menu. It’s important to give your site visitors an easy way to access key pages on your site with a single click, but, if you have a lot of pages, you don’t want to clutter up your navigation menu with a link to every one of them.
We’ve made it a little easier to make that decision right when you add a new page to your website. Now when you add a new page with SiteBuilder, you’ll see a new option that makes it a simple matter to either add a link in your site navigation to your new page, or remove it. You can always add or remove a link to your new page later by editing the navigation element, but the new option makes it more convenient.
Here’s how it works. To begin, add a new page in any one of the usual ways:
1) Click the New Page button in the toolbar
2) Select File, then New Page from the menu
3) Right-click and select New Page from the File Manager
You’ll get the familiar page template selector. It looks like this if you’re using a design from our Design Gallery:
Or like this if you’re using a design from SiteBuilder:
Here’s where the new option comes in. To add your new page to your navigation menu, make sure there is a checkmark in the box labeled ‘Add this page to my site’s navigation.’ By default, that checkbox is checked automatically; if you don’t want your new page to have a link in your navigation menu, just click the box to remove the checkmark. If you don’t have a navigation menu on your site, you won’t see that option at all.
Then make sure you give your new page a title. Search engines use page titles as part of their calculation for determining how prominently your site will appear in their search results. Perhaps more importantly, your page title will appear as part of the link to your site in those results.
When you’ve finished, just click Next.
The next step is deciding on the details of the link to your new page. Again, if you don’t have a navigation menu on your site, you won’t see this page.
Here’s how that works:
1) If your site has more than one navigation menu, choose the menu you want to use for your new link. Otherwise, the new page link will be automatically added to the only navigation menu on your site.
2) Next, decide where you’d like your new link to appear in your navigation menu. By default, SiteBuilder will add the new link to the end of your menu, but you can move it wherever you like in the menu by using the buttons below the list of links.
3) Now it’s time to give your new link a name. If you gave your new page a title as I suggested, SiteBuilder will by default give the link to that page the same name. If you prefer a different name (something shorter and more appropriate for a link, perhaps), you can change it here.
4) To finish, you can change the name of the file for your new page, and where it will be stored. By default, SiteBuilder will use your page’s title as the page’s file name, but you can change both file name and location by clicking the change file name or save location link.
When everything looks good, just click Finish, and you’re done!
Hope this makes things easier for you. If you have any questions about this new process, please let us know!
