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Add a page

Watch this video to understand how to create a page using the standard template in your CMS.

Watch this video to understand how to use the different options to create a landing page.

Live or draft?

Make sure to check your page settings when creating or editing a page.

If a page is 'Draft', only signed in admins will be able to see it.

If a 'Draft' page is linked to a menu, users will see a broken link page.

The landing page is structured around different segments:

  • Feature row
  • Feature tiles
  • Activities feed
  • Members feed
  • Teams
  • Guides

Add your landing page

Begin by adding a new page with a title and save to gain the landing page options.

See 'How to add a standard page' for more information about this step.

Once you have created a few sections, you can re-order your sections by changing the number next to each title.

Feature row

  1. Use the 'feature row' button then the 'edit' cog.
  2. Give your row a title and select an optional icon to represent the content.
  3. Use the text editor tools as discussed for the standard page. Try to keep the paragraph short.
  4. Link the section to another page or video using the button fields.
  5. Give the button some text and add the link.
  6. Choose for the button to be coloured or not.
  7. Upload a suitable square image for section at 600px x 600px, or embed a video.
  8. Choose to set the image and background to align left or right of the text.
  9. Add an optional background of a circle made up of lines, crosses or squares.
  10. Choose the background colour.
  11. Make the background smaller, or set a different angle of rotation by adding a numerical value into the field.
  12. Our default settings are 45 for 45 degrees and 0.5 for half size.

Feature tiles

  1. Use the 'feature tiles' button then the 'edit' cog.
  2. Type a heading & description. (This is optional)
  3. Uncheck 'show segment title' to hide the heading & description. (Use if these are blank)
  4. Open the 'other options' dropdown arrow to change the visibility of the segment, the amount of white padding before/after and the way the images are displayed.
  5. Upload an image to each tile (approximately 400px x 300px).
  6. In the options you can set images to display as icons or a full rectangle.
  7. Add text, a URL and a button title.
  8. You can use formatting options within the tile text box to have headers & smaller text.
  9. Save.

Activities feed

  1. Use the 'activities feed' button then the 'edit' cog.
  2. Type a heading & description. (This is optional)
  3. Uncheck 'show segment title' to hide the heading & description. (Use if these are blank)
  4. Use 'other options' to delete the segment.
  5. Check filters to display activities with tags.

Members feed

  1. Use the 'members feed' button then the 'edit' cog.
  2. Type a heading & description. (This is optional)
  3. Uncheck 'show segment title' to hide the heading & description. (Use if these are blank)
  4. Use 'other options' to delete the segment.
  5. Check filters to display members with tags.

Teams

  1. Use the 'Teams' button then the 'edit' cog.
  2. Type a heading & description. (This is optional)
  3. Uncheck 'show segment title' to hide the heading & description. (Use if these are blank)
  4. Use 'other options' to delete the segment.
  5. Check which teams to display.

Guides

  1. Use the 'Guides' button then the 'edit' cog.
  2. Type a heading & description. (This is optional)
  3. Uncheck 'show segment title' to hide the heading & description. (Use if these are blank)
  4. Use 'other options' to delete the segment.
  5. Check which guides to display.
  1. Sign into your platform.
  2. Type /CMS after the platform URL.
  3. Use the left-hand menu to select 'Page management'.
  4. Use the 'add a new page' button.

Hero section

  • The first option when creating a page is to add a 'hero section'.
  • This section is the top header of a page where you can add an image, introductory text and a button to link to another page or video.
  • Header images work best at: approx 2300 x 700 px

Featured paragraph

  • The other option is to have a featured paragraph.
  • This works well instead of a header image to feature an image and block of text above the main page and page menu.
  • The image should be 1400px x 500px.

Page content

  • See some familar text editing functionality such as 'Bold' & 'Underline'.
  • Hover your mouse over the icon to view a tool explainer.
  • Use the drop-down functions to 'float' your images left or right.
  • Use the drop-down functions to use text presets such as 'Paragraph' & 'Header 1'.
  • Insert images, videos and links to pages using embed codes.
  • Insert a table to align small images and text neatly.
  • Use text anchors to help users navigate through lots of text.
  • Add buttons to make links look better.
  • Use advanced options such as quotes, drawers and image tiles to design your pages.

Watch this video to understand how you can use the advanced page features within the standard page template.


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