Build your site on Maine Communities Online

Build Your Site
   8 easy steps
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Step 2 - Adding and/or deleting pages

If you're ready to add, delete, or change the order of pages within your web site, follow the steps below. If you already have the pages you need and you're ready to insert content on them, skip to step 4 — adding content.

First, find your web site and log in.

Once you've logged in, you'll be able to select the "Web Site Manager" button at the top of the homepage.

Inside the web site manager, select "Add a page."

When prompted, choose "Publishing Page" and specify the name of the page (such as "Our Programs") and a description of the page (such as "Find information about our current education programs and much more"). Then click the "Continue" button at the bottom of the page.

Lastly, you'll be asked to choose whether to copy an existing page or start with a blank page. To start with a blank page, select "none" from the menu.

Once this new page has been created, you can continue creating new pages, you can go to the new page for a preview, or you can return to the homepage or the Web Site Manager.

If you would like to change the order in which your pages appear on the homepage, go to the Web Site Manager and select "Change page order/delete pages."

Click the up or down arrows of the "Page Shuffler" to rearrange the order of your pages; click on the left and right arrows to organize the pages into categories (to make one page a "sub-page" of another page). Choose "Edit" if you want to edit the page name or description. The topmost page is the homepage or "starting page" for your site. Move any page to the top of the Shuffler to make it the starting page. Choose "Done" when you're finished and you will exit the Web Site Manager.

Here is the Maine Soap Box Derby homepage, an example of a completed homepage with links to five other pages.

Step 1 - Preparation
Step 2 - Adding and/or deleting pages
Step 3 - Selecting styles for links
Step 4 - Adding content
Step 5 - Linking pages within your web site
Step 6 - Customizing contact information
Step 7 - Listing your web site in appropriate channels
Step 8 - Adding a related web site or sub group