Page Comparison

Now that you've learned some general features of SDL Tridion (see SDL Tridion Basics and Navigating SDL Web for more), you can begin to think about how to organize and build your website with the instructions below.

The way Pages and Structure Groupsare organized in the Root folder will determine how users navigate your site.In the following instructions, you will learn how to create a page within a Structure Groupdirectory:

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Pages are built to display content on your website. For any content to appear on your site, whether it be text, images, documents, maps, etc., a component content block or item containing that content must be placed on a page.

Generally, the more content a site contains the more pages a site should have.

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Creating a Page

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To create a new Page:

1. Navigate to the

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1. Pages folder where you'd like to create a new page.

2. In the 

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1. Context Nav (…) tab (highlighted in

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1. red above), click

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1.  Create Child Page.

A new tab in your browser will open where you'll enter Enter the properties for the Page in the pop-up.(shown below):

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New space for creating a Page, which defaults to the General tab (highlighted in yellow).

In the General tab (highlighted in yellow above):

1. Name: Just like structure groups, you must enter a ###_ prefix and a name so that the page will appear in the navigation.

   • The first page in a structure group, called a landing page, should be numbered 000_.

     • Every structure group must contain a landing page.

   • For example, the landing page for an "About Us" structure group would be named: 000_About. The following page could be 010_Our Team.

     • You can include spaces in this field after the prefix.

2. File Name: What is entered in this field will become part of the URL for this page. The file name should be very short and contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.

All other fields should remain their default value, and can be ignored.

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Finding and Adding

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Content Items

Click on Edit Page Content to add or create content to your page.

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• If no components items are inserted, the page will be blank.

To display content on your page, click on the Component Presentations tab (highlighted in yellow below) to the right of the General tab. A blank window will appear in the center:

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The Component Presentations tab.

At the bottom left, click the Insert button (highlighted in blue above).

either on Browse for Content or Create Content.

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A window showing the Building Blocks Content folder for your publication will appear (shown below):

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1. Locate the folder with the first

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1. item you'd like to add to the page.

2. Select the component by clicking once.

3. You must also select

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1. a Template from the drop down menu

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1. • These templates are explained in full in the 

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1. • Schemas and Templates instructions).

2. After you have selected the

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1. content item and the Layout View (or template style), hit the 

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1. Add Content button.
   

   Image Added

   
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1. Content Item will now appear in the 

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1. Page.

2. Repeat steps 1-4 until you've listed all of the components you need on the page. Some pages may only contain one component.

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1. When you are done adding components, you may publish.

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1. Back on the

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1. Page, check to make sure your

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1. content items appear in the right order on your page.

   • This is determined by how they are listed

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     • For example, place Banners or Page Titles at the top of the list to ensure that they display at the top of the page online.

   • To change a component's position on the list, click the component and then click the Move up or Move down buttons as needed

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