Top level pages

Have a copy of your new site’s planned sitemap. It might be in the form of a spreadsheet or a diagram. It indicates which pages will be “top level” and how the other pages cascade out from that. (Things can still be added/moved later, but start with the most complete structure you have.)

First make a home page and a page for each of the items that appear in your main navigation. The main navigation appears in the lighter blue band in your site’s header.

• In the dashboard ‘Pages’ view, click ‘Add a page’
• Type in the page’s name at the top. In this first round of pages you’ll want to dismiss (x out) the template that’s offered.
• In the right column, scroll down to Page Attributes (open the section and select the page’s “parent” from the dropdown
• Hit ‘Publish’
• Repeat for all of your top-level pages

Sub-pages

Once those pages are created, do the same for all of your lower-level pages, with two changes:

• After you hit ‘Add a Page’ click on the template that’s offered and it will be placed on the page.
• Type in the page’s name at the top. In this first round of pages you’ll want to dismiss (x out) the template that’s offered.
• In the right column, scroll down to Page Attributes (open the section and select the page’s “parent” from the dropdown.
• Hit ‘Publish’
• Repeat for all of your sub-pages. The ‘Parent’ will always be the page in the same section that’s one level higher in the hierarchy.

Once every page in your site has a stub, you’re ready to Learn about navigation and Build navigation menus. This’ll make it a lot easier to move around your site as you begin adding content to the pages.