Menus, Signposting Pages and Pages

Menus, Signposting Pages and Pages

Overview

Signposting Pages focus on navigation. They are designed to guide users to other key sections of the website acting as navigational hubs and providing links to pages
Pages deliver the core content of a website which provide detailed content.
Any new pages which are created need to be linked to a menu item.  This can be done directly by adding a page link to the menu, however,  it is strongly advised to keep the number of links on the Top-Level Menu items as low as possible and to use Signposting Pages to group pages and for these signposting pages added as Top-Level Menu Items. 

Fixed Menu Items

The website has a number of built in Menu items which are built in Signposting Pages and cannot be changed; these are Councillors and Staff, Meetings, News Articles (can be switched off by contacting us), Events (can be switched off by contacting us) and appear under their own heading on the Dashboard.

Other Signposting Pages

Your website will come with the following signposting pages:
Services
Finance
Council Wide Plans
Governance and Policies

These can be changed should you wish to but we'd encourage you to keep these to ensure that your website is easy to navigate.  If you do change these, you'll need to change the permalink of the page and change this in the Services and Information Links under the General Tab and the Links section on the Home Page Tab if it's listed there.
 
For further information on adding signposting pages to your Menu, see the article adding-top-level-menu-items

Pages

Under your signposting pages, you will want to have a number of content pages (just known as Pages).  Below are some examples of pages that you may wish to put under each of the signposting pages:
  1. Under the Services Signposting Page  - allotments, defibrillators, cemeteries, grass cutting, footpaths
  2. Under the Finance Signposting Page  - Year End Accounts by year pages or accounts by document type, Grants and Donations 
  3. Under the Governance and Policies Signposting Page - Climate Plan, Neighbourhood Plan, Resilience Plan
  4. Under the Governance and Policies Signposting Page - Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, Code of Conduct, Publication Scheme etc
For more information see the article creating-pages and adding-links-to-pages-on-your-website

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