In this tutorial, we will cover how to create a system of pages and the navigation within your website.

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1. Open your website editor and from the menu on the left, click the topmost of the icons. It should look like a rectangle with three horizontal lines within it. Clicking on this will bring up the web pages within your website.

2. Depending on the template you choose, the names, numbers, and organization of the pre-existing pages may vary. You are welcome to browse the pages and keep any of them, but it's easiest to understand how to build the website when you start with the home page only.

3. To delete a page, hover over the page and click the ellipsis (...) within the circle. This will bring up a list of options. You can then click delete to delete the page.

4. To add a new page, click the large blue button at the bottom. After you name the page, you can then access a variety of different options from the menu.

   1. Renaming and duplicating pages are mostly self-explanatory; the first will allow you to change the name of a page as it appears in the navigation menu, and the second allows you to make an identical copy of the page.​

   2. Clicking hide (or show if the page is already hidden) will toggle the visibility of the page within the navigation menu. This means that users will only be able to access hidden pages by clicking on a link to them or directly typing in the URL.

   3. Clicking subpage will make that page a subpage of the page directly above it. This means that in the navigation menu, when you hover your mouse over a page, any subpages will appear in a list below it. There is also the option to create a folder. This is a special type of page which contains subpages, but is not a page itself. Therefore, in the navigation menu, hovering over a folder will display the list of subpages which you can visit, but you cannot go to the folder itself.

5. Clicking settings will take you to a set of more advanced options. Under the page info tab, there are options to rename and hide the page, as well as setting the page as a homepage.

   1. Under advanced settings, there is also the option to enable caching for the page. This will help pages load faster; however, any changes made to the page will not be displayed for viewers until the cache is cleared; the minimum time for this is one hour, but this can be extended up to 24 hours from the settings which appear when caching is enabled. Therefore, caching pages which are static and don't change often, such as homepages or an about page, is recommended as it will decrease loading times for these pages. For dynamic pages which change often, such as blog posts, it is recommended that you do not enable caching in order to give the viewer the most accurate version of the page.

6. Under the layout tab, you can change the page type from standard to no header and footer. Generally, all pages will be standard unless you do not want a header and footer on a particular page.​

7. The permissions tab allows you to choose who can view a page. The first option lets everyone see the page, the second option only allows people with a particular password to view the page, and the third restricts the page to either all members or a specific member role. More info on members can be found in the Advanced Features section of these tutorials.

8. Finally, under SEO and social, you can change how your page appears in Google search results. There is a preview box at the top which shows you how changing different text fields will impact the result. Below that, you can change the URL for the specific page (within the website as a whole), you can choose to hide the page from the results of search engines such as Google, and you can add keywords which will help search engines to display your page to relevant searches. This can be very useful if you are looking to expand the reach of your website.

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Continue to Add to learn how to add multimedia content to your website.

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