The Landing page template is the standard page used across most websites for marketing and recruitment pages.

Make sure that you adhere to all accessibility and brand guidelines when creating and editing pages. If you have questions, please contact webAdmin.

[For Training Purposes, you can create a test page within your site to practice. Generally, editors build their test page in the about folder within their site. You can use this test page to complete the Assessment at the end of this module.]

Getting Started

Choose your site from the site dropdown in the top navigation
Select the folder in the asset tree into which you want to create a new page. Find your department or office, then choose about (Click on the > next to the folder name to ensure that it is selected.)
Click Add Content (next to your site name) in the top navigation.
Select Pages
Select Landing Page or Sub Landing Page

When should you pick Landing Page or Sub Landing Page?

Landing pages should be used sparingly. They are for website homepages or key marketing pages that will get a lot of traffic. They tend to be very visual pages that have a lot of imagery, some videos, rankings and statistics, testimonials, etc.

The majority of pages in a website should be Content Pages that allow for the left navigation for consistent wayfinding throughout the site. There are some cases where a page isn't going to need a left navigation (won't have sub-pages under it but is not the same prominence/importance as a landing page). In these cases, a Sub Landing page is recommended.

Add the Page Content

Page name: Must be lowercase with no spaces; use a dash to separate words.

Placement Folder: Double-check to make sure that you are adding your new asset to the correct folder.

Title: This is the title shown at the top of your page if no Hero Banner is selected.

Include in Navigation: Choose Yes or No

You can generally ignore the other options in this section.

Main Content

There are three main sections on the Landing Page.

Open the section using the dropdown arrow (>) if needed.

SEO Title: The SEO title is what appears on the search engine results page (like Google or Safari). It's important for the SEO title to be short, it's limited to 80 characters, but also descriptive and keyword rich. Avoid using acronyms as much as possible.

Follow this format:

Page Title | Department Name | Division

(Example: Landing Page Example | Department of Anthropology | College of Arts and Science) There may not be room to add the whole department and division names depending on how long the Page Title is. It is okay to shorten titles or leave off the division name if needed. Sometimes you have to get creative.

You do not need to add Miami University to the SEO Title. It is added automatically at the end.

Hero Banner

The hero banner is different depending on if you are creating a Landing Page or a Sub Landing Page.

A Landing Page allows you to add a large image or video, a title, sub-heading, quicklinks, introduction description, and a call to action button.
A Sub Landing Page hero has more limited options: you can add a smaller image, title, introduction description, and a call to action button.

Quicklinks are not available on content and sublanding page types because there is breadcrumb navigation instead.

Row

A row is a container that holds WYSIWYG Content or a Widget block. WYSIWYG content can be added directly to the page. Widget must be created and then added to the page. Learn to Create Widgets

You can add multiple rows to build out your page with various types of widgets and text content.

Click the + in the top right corner to add a new row. When you have multiple rows, you can use the arrows to move a row up or down.

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