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How to create Page Structure
How to create Page Structure
Page Structure
is going to determine the navigation sections for a site, and how the visitor flows through the different areas, the idea is to create a structure that's easy enough for the team to browse through and discover information.Page Structure
The easiest way we recommend is to mimic the logical organization structure that you already have in your business. Area for finance, operations, sales and marketing. They have the same kind of areas that you use to identify and organize your information and different areas of your business.
Here are the steps:
Here are the steps:
1. Click PAGES at the upper right hand corner.
2. Go down and click the new page button, to add pages
3. Once you click on the new page button, there will be a pop up as shown in the picture. You can type in the name of the page/s you'd like to add.
example:
D2 Attraction
4. Once added it will appear on top of the page like what is shown in the picture.
5. If you forgot a page you'd like to add like this example, each page is numbered and forgot to add D1. Since it is not in alphabetical order and D1 is intended to be on top, what you can do is DRAG and DROP. Again you can arrange them however order you wish.
5.1 As you can see D1 is already on top.
6. Automatically the site will generate a Menu. We want the menu there so site navigation is easy.
** Next steps will be managing each of the pages
7. Go to each page, you can hover over and click on the 3 dots and it will show you different options such as:
Set as homepage
Duplicate page
Properties
Add subpage
Hide from navigation
Delete
8. Here's important ones that you more likely to be using
Hide from navigation
Add subpage
Hide from navigation - when you'd like to hide something from the Menu bar
Add subpage- one way of adding a page underneath the main page.
8.1 Click Hide from Navigation option
8.2 As shown in the picture, that is an indication that the page is hidden from the Menu bar.
8.3 D1 Executive is now hidden from the Menu bar.
9. Adding subpage
One of the popular sub pages that most would like to use is Getting started section, where you want to have information for newbies who have just joined the business.
9.1 Create a Getting started subpage.
You can put that right up the top, just under home page.
9.2 Click on the Add page button below.
9.3 Once you click on the add new page button, a box will pop up where you can type in your subpage.
In this example it is Getting Started.
9.4 You can now see Getting Started subpage
There are 2 ways in adding subpage:
A. Click on the 3 dots
A.1 Click on Add subpage
B. Click on the Add button below, then type in Culture in this example.
B.1 And then once that page has been created to move that under another one of our heading pages, we actually just pick it up and you can kind of plunk it on top, and then it creates as a sub page.
How to Add Basic Page Content
How to Add Basic Page Content
We can start building our content
Other way to insert
Add a text box so you can add a heading
1. click on Text box ( upper right hand corner
2. Text control box
3. Where you can type in your heading
Text styles
Use dropdown to select which text styles you'd like to use.
For this example, click on Heading
Type in your Heading inside the Text box
You can add more text and by clicking of the text box option at the upper right hand corner or by double clicking your mouse to where you'd like to add the text.
There are grab spots that you as well can use to move text/s
You can move text like shown in the picture.
You can hover this icons on the left hand side corner to change colors or highlight the background of certain section
You can insert texts or images.
Embed command, lets you embed a URL
You can as well add forms by double clicking on any open space and click on drive
You can adjust the size by dragging the grab spots ( in blue )
Click on G Drive
You can add other content from Google Drive
When you click on G Drive you will then see the contents there.
In this example let us add a pdf
Double click on the pdf and as you can see it will see the full preview of the document.
You can as well add a picture by double clicking on the image.
You as well can search for a specific file by using the search bar and you can use filter to help narrow down the search.
You as well can include stored training videos
You as well can share videos stored on YouTube
Click on YouTube embedding, you can either search the video from there or if you are logged on to You Tube you can:
Copy the URL of the video
Paste it straight to the search bar
It will automatically pop up. Click on it
4. Click on Select button and from there it will be embedded into your page.
To create a training folder for videos that you've done screencast on or maybe videos created using a smart phone and you want to best organize them and share them with your team, create a folder in Google Drive called Training.
With that folder its very important to share view only access to anyone on your team who needs to watch these videos.
Remember, any content that you share on Google sites needs to be shared by the recipient on Google Drive as well. If you embedded something in Google drive the recipient needs to atleast have view permission on that file so that they can show the embedded content within the Google site.
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