Adding a New Page / Dropdown Menu

School Webmasters ONLY Last updated 9/24/19

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Outline

• Adding a new page • Friendly URLs
• Connecting your new page to the dropdown menu

Adding a new page

	
Click Add Page in the black bar.

Below is a list of all your internal pages of your website and the sections they live in (should be pretty much the same as the mega menu bar categories)

Click the GREEN Plus (+) sign button to add a page to that category.

Clicking these arrows will show all internal pages within the section.

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New Content Page

The Show page in dynamic nav is auto checked for you.

If you want your new page to be hidden in the side navigation area, uncheck this box.

This will hide it from anyone whom doesn’t have a direct link or know the exact URL of that page. “Hidden Page”

Type the title of the new page

SAVE to create
the page	4

Once the page is created, you will have access to its contents. BUT you have not added the page to your mega menu drop down yet.

Go to General Settings in the tabs at the top.

	To change the page title

A friendly URL will auto generate based off your title! Copy the Friendly URL
This is the extension after your website URL

Example: https://www.cusd.com/volunteers.aspx

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To add your page to your mega menu dropdown:

1.	Click your name in the black bar 2.	Click “Admin Tool”
3.	Find your school’s name on the right 4.	Custom Drop Down Menu

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Find the section you created your page under

Add an Item

To edit, delete, or re-order your dropdown menu, you can use the controls on the right.

To re-order, simply drag them into order.

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Some schools have multiple sections of a category:

Each break is a new column

HOWEVER, You cannot move menu items from one column to another. They have to be re-added from scratch.

You can move columns up or down in order
(they are ordered form left to right)	8

To connect your new page to the drop down:

	
The friendly URL that you already copied!

Add a slash / before it

Example: /Volunteers.aspx

If this is not the same as the friendly URL for that page, the page will result in an error.

Title of your page (should be the same as you made it earlier)

Leave as Same Window for internal pages.

For redirects to other websites, place the URL for that website
in the item URL and change the Target to New Window.	9

	Redirect

	Own website

Find the item you just added.

For redirects to new websites, it will say [NEW WINDOW]

To change the order it appear, simply drag the item into the order you like.

**You can not drag menu items into new sections (ie: Volunteers from Parents to Students sections). Instead, you must delete it from one section and re-add it to another one.

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To test the link between page and menu:

Go to your homepage (easiest way to get out from the back end is to just type it in the url)

Go to the dropdown and click the new page. If it takes you to your new page, it works!

*Make sure it opens in a new Tab if they’re leaving your website.

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Things to keep in mind:

• When you add an internal page and add it to the mega menu, it automatically goes to the bottom of the dynamic navigation (side nav) list and the dropdown list.

• When you move the order in the dynamic nav to present the pages in a different order, you have to also move the order in the mega menu nav (and vis versa)

• If your friendly URL ever changes, the link to that page has also changed. You must update the mega menu drop down URL or any other links that go to that page to reflect the new friendly URL.

• If you lose a newly created page, check by expanding the arrows in the content management when clicking “Add Page” to find the page you’d created.