Web Site Basics > Building a hierarchy of pages > Adding empty pages and pending links to a hierarchy
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Adding empty pages and pending links to a hierarchy
The generic pages you add to a navigation view are blank HTML pages. They appear in the view with an empty-page alert (
). Such pages have the filename Page. or Pagen. For information on renaming them, seeNaming files and folders.
Note: Generic pages are blank but contain the basic HTML tags required to form an HTML page.
Pages added are either pages with unresolved pending links or scratch pages. A scratch page has no pending links of any kind. You would add scratch pages to a navigation hierarchy simply to make it easier to link them to the hierarchy as a later step. For information, see Rearranging the parts of a hierarchy.
To add a single empty page with pending links:
1 Open a navigation view of the site.
2 Select a page in the view.
3 Do one of the following:
) on the toolbar or choose Design > New Parent Page to insert a page between the selected page and its former parent page. The new page is the child of the former parent page and the parent of the selected page. The three pages are connected by "to child and back" links--that is, pending links from parent pages to child pages and from child pages to parent pages.
) on the toolbar or choose Design > New Page to insert a child page with "to child and back" links from the selected page.
) on the toolbar or choose Design > New Next Page to insert a next sibling page with "to adjacent siblings" links from the selected page--that is, a pending link from the selected page to the new sibling page and a pending link from the new sibling page to the selected page.
) on the toolbar or choose Design > New Previous Page to insert a previous sibling page with "to adjacent siblings" links from the selected page--that is, a pending link from the selected page to the new sibling page and a pending link from the new sibling page to the selected page.Note: If the page you selected is the home page, the only choice available is the New Child Page button () or Design > New Page.
To add a group of child pages with pending links:
1 Open a navigation view of the site.
2 Select a page in the view.
3 Choose Design > New Pages.
4 Type the number of pages to create.
5 If you want to name the pages something other than Pagen., type a filename.
6 If you want to use a stationery page, choose it from the menu. (For information, see Using stationery.)
7 Choose from the Parent menu to create pending links as follows:
8 Choose from the Sibling menu to create pending links as follows:
Choose To Adjacent Siblings to create bidirectional links between any child pages you are creating. (A bidirectional link is also created between the first sibling you create and the last of any of its siblings already created.)
9 Click Create. This creates new pages and new unresolved pending links. You resolve a pending link between two pages by adding a hyperlink from the source page to the target page that reflects it.
To add an empty scratch page:
Select a folder in the Files tab and choose Site > New > Page. Scratch pages are also displayed in the scratch pane of the site's navigation view. For information, see Using peripheral panes.
To add a pending link from one page to another:
1 Move the point to the source page.
2 Hold down Control-Shift (Windows) or Command (Mac OS). The pointer shows a point-and-shoot icon (
).
3 Drag to the target page. A new pending link is created.
The source and target page can be any two pages. They do not need to have a family relationship.
To remove a page from a navigation view:
1 Select the page. (If the page you select has descendents, they will be moved to the scratch pane after you remove the selected page. For information, see Using peripheral panes.)
2 Do one of the following:
) on the toolbar, choose Edit > Delete, or press the Delete key.Web Site Basics > Building a hierarchy of pages > Adding empty pages and pending links to a hierarchy