Adding Pages
Pages are the most basic and important type of content on your website.
To add a page, use the add item menu for a folder:
After clicking to add a page, you'll see the edit page panel:
The Title and Description fields are there at the top. The usual comments apply to them: Enter a title as you wish; Skip the description if you want. There is a Related Item(s) field at the bottom, also a standard input you needn't worry about until you find a need for this functionality.
The middle panel, for body text, is where the action is for pages. The software used for making pages is called a visual editor and and allows you to do WYSIWYG editing. WYSIWYG editing -- What You See Is What You Get -- is the normal way word processing software works. When you make a change, such as setting a word to bold, you see the bold text immediately. When you add an image, after uploading, it appears where you put it. When you right-align a paragraph, it immediately shifts to the right.
Visual Text Editor Features
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View or edit document source code (for advanced users). |
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Preview what the HTML page will look like for users. |
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Select a layout template. See "Templates" for details. |
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Cut the highlighted text to the clipboard. |
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Copy the highlighted text to the clipboard. |
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Paste the text you copied (with or without formatting) |
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Copy content from Microsoft Word, then paste it into the HTML editor using the pop-up accessed from this icon. |
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Print the HTML page. |
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Undo or redo the most recent action taken. |
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Find a word or phrase within the text of the HTML page. |
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Find and replace a word or phrase within the text. |
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Select all of the text in the HTML page (usually used before copy or cut or to apply a style or format to the whole page). |
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Remove the formatting from highlighted text... (You must select the text first) |
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Bold, italic, underscore or strikethrough highlighted text. |
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Superscript or subscript the highlighted text. |
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Change the color of the highlighted text. |
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Change the background color behind the highlighted text. |
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Add numbering or bullets to highlighted text lines. |
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Increase or decrease the highlighted text's indentation. |
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Alignment of highlighted text (left, centered, right, justified). |
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Add or remove hyperlink from highlighted text. Also used to manage file uploads and links to files on the web server. |
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Upload or insert your own or other's images into the HTML page. |
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Insert table. Number of columns or rows, and table width, height, borders, & alignment can also be set. |
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Insert divider line (horizontal rule). |
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Insert emoticons (e.g. smiley faces, email icon, lightbulb). |
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Insert symbols & special characters (trademarks, currency, etc.) . |
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Insert page break. Only impacts printed version. |
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Online keyboard for certain non-roman character languages. |
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Styles & formatting determine the appearance of HTML text. You may also use the drop down boxes to style specific elements (such as headings), or set overrides for font face, font size, etc. To remove the applied style select the style name again. |
