Creating a Page

On this page

• Guidelines for creating a new page
• Add a new Content Space page
• New Page fields
• Page Properties, Page Content and Page Administration
• Save Draft
• Publish
• Adding portlets in Design Mode

Guidelines for creating a new page

• Content Editors should contact their Department Content Manager before creating a new page.
• A Content Manager must review and approve a Content Editor's new page before publishing.
• Content Managers must inform the Site Administrator when creating new pages of significance for the public.

Add a new Content Space page

First determine where you would like this page to live on the site. 

• Should it be a direct subpage under your department or division?
• Should it be a subpage of one of those pages?

The page it goes under is the parent page. Navigate to the parent page.

• If you are creating a page for a new type of camp program, you would navigate to the "Camp Programs" page under Parks & Natural Resources/Programs & Events.

Hover over + Page in the toolbar and click Content Space Page.

New Page fields

• Title - What you want the headline of the page to be. We recommend keeping it short, around 2-4 words.
• Name - This is the name that will be in the URL. This should automatically populate when you tab or click into a new field. You can also generate it by clicking the blue arrow next to the "Title" field. When creating a new page, you can edit this (for example, to remove extra underscores if you used a symbol like "&" in the title).
• Page Owner - This should be you if you're creating a new page. You can change this if someone else will be maintaining this page by clicking the blue button. There can only be one page owner. 
• Category - Leave blank

Click Create Page when you're finished.

Page Properties, Page Content and Page Administration fields

PAGE PROPERTIES

• Title and Name - Should be autofilled
• Summary - Brief 1-2 sentences about the page. This will show up in search results on the internal search.
• Category - Leave blank
• Featured Image - You can upload an image here that may show as your Hero/Featured Image at the top of the page. This depends on other aspects, so we recommend saving this for later.
  • Featured Hero Image should be 1400x500

PAGE CONTENT

This Content Editor is where you enter the main content for your page. This does not include portlets. This should primarily be copy, but you can also insert photos and embed videos in this editor.

• Guide to the Content Editor Toolbar
• Review the layout of a Content Subpage

PAGE ADMINISTRATION

• Page Owner - This should be you or whoever is going to be maintaining the page. There can only be one page owner.
  • Propagate the Change of Ownership to all Subpages - Check this if all new pages created under this page will have the same Page Owner
• Last Modified - Shows when the page was last edited
  • NOTE: This is not using our time zone.
• Release Date - Schedule the page to show up in navigation on a certain date/time. 
  • NOTE: The page still becomes "live" when you click Publish, but it can only be accessed by a direct link. It will show up in navigation on the Release Date.
• Expiry Date - Schedule a date/time for the date to expire/disappear. The page will no longer be accessible in the navigation or by direct link. (Essentially it becomes unpublished.)
  • Note: The page can still be found by going to the parent page and clicking Page Options > View Subpages. You can easily edit the page while it is expired. (Useful for recurring programs or events that you don't want anyone to find online during the rest of the year.)
• Follow-up Tasks - A useful tool to send yourself (or the Page Owner) a reminder to review a page or to set a page to archive automatically.
  • Review - Select a date and the CMS will send you a reminder to come back and review the page. (Useful for if you know you need to come update a page after an event occurs or deadline passes.)
  • Archive - Select a date for the page to be archived. If you want the page to be completely removed from the website (not even accessible from a direct link), this will automatically Archive the page on that date. You can re-publish archived pages. However, you cannot edit this page without unarchiving it (compared to an "expired" page).
  • Move - Select a date for the page and/or its subpages to be moved. This is primarily useful when you have pages that will become outdated but need to stay online in some kind of archive.

Once you are finished, click Save Draft or Publish depending on whether you are ready for the page to go live.

Save Draft

The page will not publish if you click Save Draft. You will be taken to the page but none of the content on the page will show. Go to Page Options in the toolbar and click Check-out & Edit Page to edit it.

The page will not show in navigation. If you leave the page and want to come back later to edit it, you will need to go to the parent page (where you initially when to create the page) and do the following:

• Hover over Page Options in the toolbar and select View Subpages.
• You should see your page name followed by "(Hidden)"
• Click the name to get taken back to the page
• Go to Page Options and select Check-out & Edit Page to edit or publish the page

Publish

When you click Publish a popup will appear asking "Change page status from Hidden to Publish?"

• Yes - This will make the page live on the site and visible in navigation. 
• No - The page will be live and accessible by a direct link, but it will not appear in any navigation on the site.

Adding portlets in Design Mode

If you want to add additional portlets (like the Contact Us box, which should be on every page), you will need to edit the page in Design Mode.

Turn Design Mode on by clicking the On/Off toggle in the toolbar. When off, it will say "OFF" and have a red circle. When on, it will say "ON" and have a green circle.

Read more about adding and editing portlets.