Create a page

Use this guide to create a standard page for your website.

Step 1: Navigate to Home

Your school's home page will already be selected.

Step 2: Create a new page

Select the existing page you would like your new page to sit below. Do not select the icon next to the page with the tick. For example: This new page will be a child page of About our school.
Select Create in the top right-hand corner.
The Create drop-down menu will display.
Select Page.

Step 3: Choose a template

Select Content page template. Content page would ideally be fifth template in the list.
Select the blue Next button on the top right corner.

Step 4: Enter the page title

Enter the Title of your new page. This title will be used on the page, in the URL and in the navigation menu. For example: Uniforms.
Do not fill out any of the other fields.
Select the blue Create button on the top right corner.

Step 5: Open your page

A success message will appear once the page is created.
Select Open to edit the page.
If you select Done you will need to edit your page later.

Step 6: Edit your page

Select Edit in the top right of the page. This button is next to Preview.
Add components to your page, like text and images. See our component guides to learn more.
We encourage you to add metadata to every page you create.

Step 7: Publish your page

For changes to be updated on your live school website you will need to publish the page.
Select the slider icon in the top left corner. This is the Page Information button.
Select Publish Page from the drop-down.
If you don't see Publish Page you are an Author and will need to select Start Workflow instead. Go to our Author publish a page for more information.

Frequently Asked Questions

Difference between Parent and Child page

When working on AEM, you will need to create a hierarchy of pages depending on your content.

A parent page is any page that sits on the top of your hierarchy such as, home page is the Parent of About our school, Supporting our students, Learning at our school and so on.

A child page is the one that sits right under the Parent page, could be called the second level page and so on. Child page could be any page that you create under another page such as, Learning from home, Creative arts, English, Languages and so on are child pages of Learning at our school page.

How do I add a child page?

When you are creating a child page;

Select (not tick) the parent page. Parent page will be highlighted.
Select blue Create button from the top right corner and follow the steps above on creating a page.

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Create a page

Step 1: Navigate to Home

Step 2: Create a new page

Step 3: Choose a template

Step 4: Enter the page title

Step 5: Open your page

Step 6: Edit your page

Step 7: Publish your page

Frequently Asked Questions

Difference between Parent and Child page

How do I add a child page?

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