Page Comparison

To create a new web page in the CMS, you can either:

• roll over Content and then Add content in the top menu and select your template

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• on the Content page, click the Add content button.

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There are several content templates to choose from. The 'landing page' template is typically used for most content, and will be the example used for this guide.

For specific instructions on when and how to use other content templates, read our guides:

• Event

• Grant

• Publication

• Profile

• News

We also have guidelines on 'content types' that don't have a specific CMS template – they would just use the landing page template:

• Creating a life event guide

• Promotional campaign and commemoration pages

• Case studies guidelines

• Content about government policy, ministers and groups

How to fill out the landing page template

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Save regularly

Saving regularly while working in the CMS helps avoid losing your work. This sometimes happens when you have connection problems, the page times out due to inactivity, or the CMS resets (which happens twice a day).

If this happens to you, try opening another tab and logging back in on that tab. Then return to the tab you were working on and you may be able to save the page.

Page title

Enter a unique, SEO-focused page title. This will display as the page title on the live website.

Your title should be between 30 and 80 70 characters and contain keywords.

Summary

This is the meta description text that is shown on Google search results as well as on promotion or navigation cards.

• Aim for between 10 and 15 words (or a maximum of 150 characters, including spaces).

• Make it meaningful – don’t just copy and paste the first sentence from the page content. The summary should describe the content of the page using keywords that will help people find your content.

• Use Google Trends to see what keywords people are using most in searches.

• Be specific – if the page is about an application, service, form or process, specify which one and what it does.

Introduction text

The text you add in this section appears under your page title on your published page. Use one or 2 sentences to summarise the purpose of the page.

Header links

You can add up to 6 links in this section that the user may find important. They are displayed alongside the page title on the introduction banner.

Page content

This is where you add the main body copy and components to your page.

Table of contents

Tick the box if you'd like to add a table of contents to the top of your page that includes anchor links that jump to any H2 headings, as well as H3 headings if you select that option.

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Content components

Select 'Add Component' to begin adding content. The Basic text component is the most common component you'll use.

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See the Format basic text page for more detailed instructions on using this component, such as formatting headings, creating lists and adding links.

Read the Body text components page to learn about using these features:

• Show table of contents

• Basic text

• Navigation cards

• Call to action feature

Add images and documents

There are some important rules for using images, image galleries and downloadable files.

Documents should be:

• only added when there's a strong user need

• no larger than 10MB

• named appropriately and descriptively, using hyphens between words in the original file name

• always accompanied by a HTML version of the content

Images should be:

• only added if they serve a purpose (not merely decorative)

• cropped and resized to the appropriate dimensions

• named appropriately and descriptively, using hyphens between words in the original file name

• accompanied by alt text (unless descriptive).

Read more at guidelines on adding images, files, audio and videos and accessibility guides.

Site-section navigation

Ticking this box displays the site section navigation menu, visible on the right side of the screen on your published page.

Add the name of your site section in the title Site-section Navigation Title field (for example, Commemorating veterans) as this will display at the top of the menu and helps users orientate themselves.

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For more information, read our Site-section navigation guide.

Related links and What's next

These will be unticked by default. Keep these unticked if you have no content in them, otherwise a heading will be displayed on the page.

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For more information, read our Related link and What's next guide.

Contact

Read the Adding a contact block guide.

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Social sharing

This allows users to share the page on social media. It defaults to 'On' but can be turned off. We recommend keeping it on.

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All content is matched to a predefined topic so we can automatically display key information across relevant areas. Topics also help people to discover and browse content that is relevant to their interests.

Check out the 'topics and tags' page to see the list of topics you can choose from.

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Tags (content audience)

Tags are not mandatory for most content pages, but they help users discover and browse content.

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Tags are recommended for events to help users filter to content that interests them.

If you choose to add tags, you can choose 1 to 3 from the tags list. You can select your department as a tag to show the content belongs to your department.

The list of current tags can be found on the 'topics and tags' page.

Additional tagging for events

Event pages have additional tagging options. This includes selecting up to 3 tags for:

• audience type

• event category

• event requirements.

To see the tag options you can choose, visit the 'create an event' page.