Page Manager
Page Manager allows you to manage your site's pages efficiently...
- Create "virtual" folders, into which you place pages (ex., one folder for each Tier 2 topic, a "To Improve" folder, etc.).
- Edit, preview or delete each page with ease.
- Show, select, view, and sort pages any way you want.
Page Manager also lets you know how many pages you've built and/or uploaded. Note that this number will be different from what you see in the Traffic Stats section of the TrafficCenter. Those numbers include your XML feed file, your sitemap file, and Content 2.0 submission and comment pages, if you have any.
Folders
Use Page Manager to create folders for convenient filing of your SBI! pages. When you create a folder, you do not create a "real" folder on your Web site. These are "virtual" folders, for visual organization only, to help you work with smaller, related groups of pages (rather than one long list of all your pages). Pages do not "really" go into a folder...
So the URL of your page does not change. That means you can re-organize your Page Manager folders at any time, without fear of changing the URL of any page. Two points about this...
- If you have worked with FTP, you know how great it is to be able to change directories without having to change URLs -- and if you have no idea what this means, ignore it.
- If you upload your own HTML, do not change how you organize your files and work locally. Page Manager folders are simply organizational aids in Site Central.
Folder Rules
- Create one word names only (no spaces).
- Use only alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9) and underscores.
- Use a maximum of 30 characters (fewer recommended).
- You cannot delete a folder that contains a page (all pages must be deleted from that folder first, or they must be moved to another folder).
- Folders don't move, and they don't nest -- no folders inside folders.
Let's Make Folders!
When you first start building your site, a list of 5, 10, even 50 pages is manageable. But it becomes hard to deal with increasing numbers of pages.
So use folders to divide your pages into groups of related pages. For example, the owner of anguilla-beaches.com has 15 pages related to "Anguilla villas." So let's create our first folder...
Click on the New link. In the screenshot (left), she names it "anguilla_villas." She'll move all "anguilla villa" related pages into this folder later.
To move a page into a folder, first click on the page icon.
And then...
Drag the selected page into the folder of your choice. In the illustration (left), "anguilla-villas.html" is about to be dropped into the "anguilla_villas" folder.
Tip 1 To select more than one page, use Alt-click (Option-click on a Mac) as you click on each page icon.
Note that as you drag, a page icon with a small window in the middle will move with your pointer. This icon displays (in red) the number of pages you're moving. When the correct folder (highlighted in yellow) appears in the small window, release your mouse. The page(s) will move into that folder.
Keep moving related pages into the appropriate folder. Continue until all related pages have been dragged into the folder (ex., villa-related pages are in the "anguilla_villas" folder -- see left).
Here's a good tip for doing this quickly...
Tip 2a Click on the Not Filed link. This shows you all pages not yet filed into folders. Then find page names (or titles if you click on the Title link) containing a certain word (ex., "villa" in this case) by keyboarding Control-F (Command-F on a Mac).
Tip 2b You might also find it easier to decide where pages belong if you choose to view them by Title rather than by Name.
Continue by creating more folders, naming according to major categories or "sub-themes" of your site (ex., "food" and "real estate" and "tours" and "hotels"). As you do this, the list of folders grows (listed alphabetically, A to Z).
Tip 3 You can also use the drag feature to move pages from one folder to another.
How many folders should you have? As many as you need to work comfortably, allowing room for site growth, but no more! Keeping the number of folders down will cut down on the length of the folder list (reducing the amount of scrolling).
More on Folder Organization
You may want to create a folder for each Tier 2 topic, one for your admin pages (About Us, Contact Us, Privacy, etc.), and some for any other content-based categories that will help you organize your pages. You may also want to create a "To Improve" folder for pages that you plan to improve or update.
Tip 4 You cannot rename a folder. Instead, create a new folder, giving it the new name you want. Then click on the old folder. Select all pages in that folder by alt-clicking on each one (or by clicking on Select All), and move them into the new folder. Delete the old folder.
Tip 5 Have some pages that just don't fit neatly into a group? Leave them as "Not Filed." It's better to have 30 or 40 "miscellaneous" pages as Not Filed than to expand your folder list by 10.
Pages
Work with your pages in this section, where you see the pages displayed...
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Show Choose which pages to display in the Pages section. Select All to see all your pages, both filed and not filed (one exception -- the home page built by SBI!'s Home Page builder does not appear in Page Manager). Select Not Filed to view only those pages that you have not yet moved to folders.
When you select a folder, you automatically see all pages that are in that folder (displayed in the Pages section). Clicking to Show All always displays all pages from all folders, even when a folder is selected (it becomes de-selected).
When you create a new page, it will be Not Filed until you move it into a folder.
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Select Select or deselect a group of pages. Click on All to select all the pages that are currently displayed. That may be All your pages (if you had clicked to Show All), or it may be all the pages displayed in a selected folder.
For example, if you have 100 pages on your site, clicking to Select All will select all 100 if you are also currently Showing All. But if you had selected a folder containing 24 pages, Select All will highlight all 24.
Click on None to deselect all highlighted pages.
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View See your pages by their file Name (ex., anguilla-videos-blW.html) or by their Title (ex., Anguilla Video Tour - Blowing Point West).
If you uploaded a page, you will see the word "Uploaded" or the abbreviation "UL" after its file Name or Title.
- Sort Display your pages alphabetically from A to z, from Z to a, or by the date Last built. Last Built displays the most recently built pages at the top of the list.
Tips
- Can't remember which folder a page resides in? Click on Show All and scroll down to the page. Hover your mouse over the page. The associated folder will highlight.
- When viewing by file Name, hovering your mouse over the name will display a tool tip window with the page's Title. And vice-versa.
- To select most of the pages in a folder, click on Select All, then use Alt-click to deselect the ones you don't want.
Download, Edit, Preview, and Delete
Click on the page's file Name or Title to edit, preview or delete it (if you uploaded the page, you will also see a download option). A small blue menu will open to choose your action...
- download You will only see this option if you uploaded the page. This feature will download the page to your desktop, letting you edit the page from any computer in the world.
- edit If you built the page using block-by-block SiteBuilder, this opens the Edit a Page module. If you uploaded this page, it opens the Upload Your Own HTML module.
- preview Open a new window to preview the page.
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delete Delete the selected page (after you confirm). Note that if you delete an Upload Your Own HTML home page ("index.html"), a SiteBuilder-built version will automatically replace it. If you have never built a home page using SiteBuilder, a blank "Under Construction" page appears...
So do be careful not to delete your home page!
- close this Close the blue menu, canceling it. You can also close it by clicking elsewhere in Site Central.
Tips
- The top edge of the menu always aligns with the page Name or Title you selected, giving you a visual cue about the page you have chosen (especially important if you are deleting pages).
- Clicking on another page Name or Title moves the blue menu to that page.