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Adding a new 'uncategorised' webpage article

Add new link on 'Main menu' to a 'Uncategorised' page (Article manager)

  1. Login to the Admin panel - click through Home >> Static Content Manager
  2. Click - New (to create a new article page link on Main-menu)
  3. Enter 'Title' of your choice e.g. ' School Camps'
  4. Enter 'Title Alias' as ' Camps'
  5. Copy these words or something similar into the text field: (or enter your own content)

Add/ upload an Image to the page...

Toolbar area....

1. Click the Insert/Edit Image icon (it looks like a mountain/ landscape symbol)

2. Click Browse Server in the pop-up window (find an image already uploaded to the server) and navigate on the server to a folder with an image - click this image to select.

3. Click Browse at the (bottom of the next window) to navigate to your computer to upload a new image to the server if necessary.

4. Once selected - add 'Alternative text' to describe the image (e.g. 'Image of activity for school camp') for visually impaired persons using a screen reader - click OK.

Joomla image properties box or panel

Add Meta-data to your page...

1. Click on the 'Meta Info' tag (to improve the ability for people to find your page in a search engine).

2. Enter a brief description and some keywords (as below)

Page properties meta-data info tab

Create the menu link to your page (from within the page creation location)...

  1. Click on 'Link to Menu' tab (below) - select 'Main Menu' (or another menu of your choice...)
  2. Enter 'Menu Item Name' as e.g. 'Static content' (this will become the new link name...)
  3. Click on Link to Menu under 'Menu Item Name' to generate the new link
  4. Select Save (only when finished working on the page)

Image of Link-to-menu tab on page properties panel

Optional:Change the position of the Menu Item (Menu Manager)

  1. From the file menu - go to Menu >> Main Menu
  2. Scroll down to bottom of page (and click Next if pages continue...)
  3. Find your new page/s and change their order in the list...

Image of page ordering layout in the static page manager panel

Optional: Make the link a sub-menu (Menu Manager)

1. Click on 'Static content' to open ready for editing (to join it to Extra functions main menu item like its other sub-menu items...)

Image of page sub-menu organisation in the menu manager panel

2. Select 'Parent Item', scroll down to 'Extra Functions' and select - click Save

Image of edit page option to add page to sub-menu page at the menu manager level

Optional: Edit your content

  1. Go to Content >> Static Content Manager
  2. Click on red page link of choice to open the document ready for editing
  3. Add / remove content, or click on add / edit picture icon, to replace picture - click Save

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