Structure: Pages and Navigation

The structure and navigation of your site are important for convenience of its visitors. You can build a site structure by adding new pages and moving them to the right place. Then you can add navigation links, edit their appearance, and move them to appropriate areas of the site. This section describes how you can manage pages and navigation links in Presence Builder.

Adding and Removing Pages

Your site can have two levels of nested pages. The total number of pages you can create depends on your hosting plan. The editor will let you know when you have reached the allotted number of pages: an icon with the dollar sign ($) will be shown over the Add Page button.

Note: For Presence Builder performance reasons, the total number of pages for a website cannot be more than 500.

To add a page to your website:

1. Go to the Pages tab.
2. Click Add Page. The new page appears highlighted in green.
3. Position the new page by dragging it to the right place or by clicking the arrows.
4. Specify the page title.
5. Give a concise description of the page content that will be displayed on search engine results pages and the keywords by which the page will be found by search engines.

   Note: Page name and Page link name are required fields. Description and Keywords are optional fields. If you specify keywords for a page, they should be separated by commas without white spaces.

6. If you want to make the page invisible to your website visitors, select the Hidden page checkbox.
7. If you want to restrict access to the page with password authentication, select the Protected page checkbox and specify a username and a password.
8. Click OK to save changes.

In addition to regular pages, you can add hyperlinks to external websites to the website's navigation block. To add such a link, go to Pages, in the menu next to the Add Page button, click Add External Link.

To change the location or properties of a page:

1. Go to the Pages tab.
2. Select the page you want to edit.
3. Change the page position by dragging it to the right place or by clicking the arrows.
4. Edit the page title.
5. Edit or remove the concise description of the page content that will be displayed on search engine results pages and the keywords by which the page will be found by search engines.

   Note: Page name and Page link name are required fields. Description and Keywords are optional fields. If you specify keywords for a page, they should be separated by commas without white spaces.

6. If you want to make the page invisible to your website visitors, select the Hidden page checkbox.
7. If you want to restrict access to the page with password authentication, select the Protected page checkbox and specify a username and a password.
8. Click OK to save changes.

To delete a page from your website:

1. Go to the Pages tab.
2. Select the page you want to delete.
3. Click Delete Page.
4. Click OK to save changes.

Adding and Removing Navigation Links

By default, a horizontal navigation bar with links to site pages is inserted below or above the header of your site. It is automatically updated every time you add, change, move, or remove pages from the site.

If you use sidebars on the site, then the horizontal bar under the header includes only links to the first level pages, and the sidebars show the links of the second and third levels.

You can move navigation blocks by dragging them to other areas of the site.

For each navigation block, you can specify the following settings:

• Menu alignment, style and size of the font, colors and backgrounds used for the links. You can specify separate settings for normal, active and submenu links. To change any of these settings, place the mouse pointer over a navigation block and clickEdit > Fonts and Colors.
• Padding and margins for the links. You can specify separate settings for normal, active and submenu links. To change these settings, place the mouse pointer over a navigation block and click Edit > Spacing.
• Shadows for the links. You can specify separate settings for normal, active and submenu links. To change these settings, place the mouse pointer over a navigation block and click Edit > Decorations.
• What levels of pages should be included in the menu. To change these settings, place the mouse pointer over a navigation block and click Edit > Levels.
• Borders width and color and corners rounding for the links. You can specify separate settings for normal, active and submenu links. To change these settings, place the mouse pointer over a navigation block and click Edit > Borders and Corners.

If you occasionally remove a navigation block, you can re-insert it. To do this, go to the Modules tab, select Navigation, and drag the block to the area on the page where you want to add it. The navigation block will be inserted into all pages of the website if you select the option Always visible.

For the convenience of your site visitors, you might also want to add breadcrumb navigation blocks. Breadcrumb navigation is a chain of links that represents the user's path from the site's main page to a current page. To add a breadcrumb navigation block, go to the Modules tab, select Breadcrumbs, and drag the module to the area on the page where you want to add it. The navigation block will be inserted into all pages of the website if you select the option Always visible.