Creating Navigation Links on the page

You can also create a set of links to other pages quite easily using the link tool.

Click into an empty part of the page where you want to display your links - normally at the top or bottom of the page. Click the Link item in the toolbar and the Create link menu will appear.

Check the Show this page in the sidebar box and then Save.

Site View

Go to the Appearance tab either by

• clicking the Edit sidebar link that sits at the bottom of the Sidebar, or
• clicking Site settings and then Change appearance.

In the Navigation element in the Sidebar, click Edit.

Click on the page that you want to link to and then OK. (If you can't see the page you want, click on Site map to display all the pages in your Site)

The page name will be added to the page you are editing as a link. Do this several times to create a menu of links. For instance, here are 3 links created that way and then auto numbered.

1. Create Site
2. Create Page
3. Add Link

In the example below, I've added a Text Box from the Insert Menu and then repeated the process above. This can sometimes make it easier to position the menu and also allows you to copy it and place it elsewhere.

Navigation

1. Insert Other
2. Styles
3. Sharing

The Sub Page Listing Gadget

When you Create a new page, you are asked if you want to place it at the 'Top Level' or 'Under X', where X is the name of the page that you were on when you pressed the Create Page button. This allows you to create a hierarchy of pages with top level pages having sub-pages associated with them. The Sub-Page Listing is an easy way to display those pages. Access it from the Insert menu. The example below use the sub pages from the 'Edit Page' page on this Site.

Tick the Automatically organise my navigation box and then choose how many levels of pages to show. The number of sub-pages and the complexity of the site will determine what will look best. Reduce the levels to make it simpler and increase the levels if some pages are not showing but should be. Experiment and remember that you can set this up manually with more control if 'automatic' doesn't do what you need.

Configure Navigation Manually

Checking the Sitemap

Using the Sitemap

Although it is useful to build some of the navigation in your Site as you go along, don't worry too much about it. When your Site is nearly complete (and no Site is ever complete!) open up the Sitemap.

Do this from the More actions menu while you are viewing any page and click on the Sitemap link. You will see a hierarchy of all the pages in your Site. If your Site is extensive, it can be worth printing this off.

Now, identify all the major pages and make sure that they are added to the Navigation menu.

With sub-pages, identify which pages should link to them and then make sure that those links exist. You can do this by adding a menu of links, just like the Introduction page of this Site has. See Adding links to check out how to do this.

Make sure that the Automatically organise my navigation box is unticked.

Add Page

Click the Add page link. A map of all the pages in your site will display (Click on 'Site Map' if it opens with 'Recent Changes' selected). Click on the page that you want to add to the Sidebar navigation and then OK.

Ordering Links

You will return to the Configure navigation menu and here you can change the order that links are displayed. Select a page in this menu and then use the up and down arrows on the right of the dialogue to change the order of items. You can use the left and right arrows to change the importance of items by indenting.

Finally, remember to click OK in the dialogue and then Save changes at the top right of the Appearances screen.