Pages

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 Groups are 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 Group:

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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 containing that content must be placed on a page.

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

• Technically, all of the content of a website could be built on a single page, but this would not make it easy for visitors to find information!

• You will use structure groups (see Structure Groups for more information) to create the various sections of your site for specific categories of content, then use individual pages to display the content within that section.

Creating a Page

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To create a new Page:

1. Navigate to the structure group of the Root where you'd like to create a new page.

2. In the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above), click the New Page button (highlighted in blue above).

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

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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.

Finding and Adding Components

The Component Presentations tab allows you to insert the components which should display on this page.

• If no components 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:

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

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

1. Locate the folder with the first component you'd like to add to the page.

2. Select the component by clicking once.

3. You must also select a Component Template from the drop down menu (highlighted in yellow above).

   • These templates are explained in full in the Tridion Schemas and Templates instructions).

4. After you have selected the component and the template, hit the Insert button (highlighted in blue above).

   • The component will now appear in the Component Presentations tab on the original page.

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

6. Click the Close button when you are done adding components.

1. Back on the page for adding a Page, check to make sure your components appear in the right order on your page.

   • This is determined by how they are listed in the Component Presentations tab.

     • 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 (highlighted in blue above).

2. When done, hit Save & Close (highlighted in yellow above).