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Organizing Page

When starting a page from scratch, here are some general tips to make your new site look good. The example below shows common editing terms in red.

Illustration of page terms


Page Title

The page title is created when you name a page. Please see Naming Pages for the best tips on how to title a page.


Keyword Tags

(Adding Keyword Tags)
When people search your site, the keyword tags help them find the right page. The more specific the keyword tags are, the more likely it is that a person will find what they're looking for.


Header

Headers, also thought of as headlines, are the big ideas on the page and divide your page into major sections (if needed). When writing headlines, it's best if you err on the side of short headlines: Think "labels" as opposed to "sentences."

Subhead

Subheads also divide your bigger topics into bite-sized sections. Using subheads can help readers scan quickly down the page.
A good tip with both headers and subheads is that the format should be consistent. This will help your site have a clean look and be easy to read. If you start to add bold and italic to some headlines and not others, it gets confusing because emphasis is being added where it may not be needed.

Body Text

Long blocks of text can be hard to read, and visitors who are scanning for information may get discouraged and leave sooner than you want them to. Keep paragraphs to short, digestible lengths. Putting a line space between each paragraph helps break up the body text.

If you find that your page is starting to get really long, you can break off sections of it into subpages. (Then include a “continued” line or “see also” at the bottom of page 1, page 2, etc, with a link to the next page in the story).




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Anonymous Adding a page to a great site! 2 Jun 13 2009, 10:46 AM EDT by walrusworldstudios
 
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How do I start this process? I am reading through the information and acquainting myself with the tools for this process...but some help would be appreciated! Thanks!
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