Creating New Pages and Copying a Page
There are two ways to create a new page using TMS. The process for creating a new page depends on where you want the link to the new page to be displayed e.g. in the navigation or in the main content area.
Method 1: Navigation
If you want your new page to appear in the navigation (as in the screenshot example below), follow the steps listed and/or play the video tutorial:
Create a new page in navigation
- Go to your webdev website
- In the top blue editing box at the bottom of the page, click the login link and enter your university ID and password to gain access to the maintenance functions.
- In the bottom blue editing box for ‘includes/nav.html', click the edit link
- Put the cursor after the text on the line above where you want new link to be displayed. Press enter to create a new bullet point below. Note: if you are creating a new sub-page, click once on the 'Indent' icon to indent the bullet point.
- Type in the name of your new page and highlight the text
- Click the ‘insert/edit link' icon
- In link URL field type in the following:
For a new page: /name of website/name of new page/ e.g. /demo/newpage/.
If new sub-page: /name of website/name of page/name of new page/ e.g. /demo/student/newpage/
- Click Insert
- Select Preview
- Select Save changes
- Your new page will now appear in left hand navigation (as above).
- Next, click on your new page link in the navigation.
- This will display an error message as the page hasn't yet been created.
- To create the page, click create in top blue editing box at bottom of page
- You can then begin adding content or just click Preview then Save changes to save the page.
Watch the video tutorial (method 1)
You will need to watch this video in full screen mode. To do so, press play and then right click on the video, select zoom and then full screen. To exit full screen mode, press ESC at any time.
Method 2: Main Content Area Link
If you want your new page to appear as a link within the main content area of an existing page (as in the screenshot below), follow the steps listed and/or play the video tutorial:
Create a new page from a link in the main content area
- Go to your webdev website
- In the top blue editing box at the bottom of the page, click the login link and enter your university ID and password to gain access to the maintenance functions.
- In the top blue editing box at the bottom of the page, click edit
- On the editing screen, type in text that will be the link to the new page
- Highlight the text
- Click on the 'insert/edit a link' icon (chain)
- Type in link url: /name of website/name of folder the page relates to/ name of new page.html
- Click insert
- Then select Preview
- Then select Save changes if you're happy
- Next, you'll need to click on newly created link. This will display an error message
- Click on the create link in top blue editing box at bottom of page
- You can then begin adding content or just click Preview and Save changes
Watch the video tutorial (method 2)
You will need to watch this video in full screen mode. To do so, press play and then right click on the video, select zoom and then full screen. To exit full screen mode, press ESC at any time.
