Work with webpages
- 2/3/2017
The first page displayed on a SharePoint site is known as the home page. This is the page on which all site visitors start. In your organization, the home page might be known as the default page, the welcome page, or the landing page. Home pages tend to aggregate information from elsewhere and direct users to other pages. For instance, in the Quick Launch for a home page, when you select Documents, you are taken to the default view of the Documents library.
There are many reasons why adding content to just the home page is not enough. Although you can add a vast amount of content on one page, this can result in the page taking a long time to render, and it can be difficult for users to find content if they have to scroll down the page many times. Try to compose your content into multiple pages, each with no more than two or three screens of information; and never add content to a page so that users have to scroll to the right to see the content. Link your pages together so that users can navigate easily between them in an organized manner.
There are several methods for creating a new page; however, the recommended method for creating pages that contain content that relates to content on existing pages is to create a forward link, also known as a wiki link, by entering the name of the page within two sets of double square brackets. This is quicker and easier than using the Links command on the Insert tab.
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If you want to enter double open or closed square brackets in the content of a page without making a link, enter a backslash before the two brackets, as in \[[ or \]].
To create a wiki page
Go to the team site where you want to create a new wiki page, and then, on the Settings menu, select Add a page.
In the Add a page dialog, enter the name of your new page.
Select Create.
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The name of the page will appear at the top of the page and is also used to create the web address (URL) of the page.
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On the home page of your team site or community site, go to the Page tab and then, in the Page Library group, select View All Pages to display the default view of the Site Pages library.
Do one of the following to display the New Item page:
Below the title for the Site Pages library, select New.
On the Files tab, select New Document.
Enter the name of the page, and then select Create.
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Use the New command below the title of the Site Pages library to create a new page
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To create a web part page
On the home page of your team site or community site, go to the Page tab and then, in the Page Library group, select View All Pages to display the default view of the Site Pages library.
On the Files tab, select the New Document arrow (not the button), and then select Web Part Page.
On the New Web Part Page page, in the Name box, enter the name of your page, and then in the Layout section, select the layout template that has the web part zone arrangement you want.
In the Save Location section, in the Document Library list, select Site Pages.
Select Create.
Use the New Document menu to create either a wiki page or a web part page
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Use the New Web Part Page page to choose a name and zone layout for your webpage
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Although you can save web part pages in any library, if you want to create wiki links from your wiki pages to a web part page, your web part page must be stored in the Site Pages library.
To create a publishing page
Go to the publishing site where you want to create the publishing page and then, on the Settings menu, select Add a page.
In the Add a page dialog, enter the name of your new page, and then select Create.
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Go to the home page of your publishing site.
If no tabs are displayed, on the Settings menu, select Show Ribbon.
Go to the Page tab, and then, in the Edit group, select New.
In the Add a page dialog, enter the name of your new page, and then select Create.
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Go to the home page of your publishing site.
Go to the Page tab, and then, in the Page Library group, select View All Pages to display the default view of the Pages library.
On the Files tab, select New Document to display the Create Page page.
In the Title box, enter the name of the new page that you want to display to users.
In the Description box, enter the purpose of the page, including any search keywords that people can use to find the page.
Select the URL Name box. The name you entered in the Title box appears, with spaces replaced with hyphens.
In the Page Layout section, select the layout you want to use to control how the content on the page will be displayed.
Select Check Spelling.
Correct any spelling mistakes, and then select OK to close the Spell Checker dialog.
Select Create.
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Use the Create Page page to enter a URL name, title, description, and page layout for the page
To create a wiki page or publishing page that is displayed by selecting a forward link
On the page where you want to add the forward link, activate edit mode.
Positon the cursor where you want to add the link to the page you will create.
Enter [[name of page|words that you want to display on the page for the link]]. An example is [[BedroomFurniture|exotic bedroom furniture]].
Save the page. The forward link is indicated by a dotted underline.
Select the underlined text to open the Add A Page dialog.
Select Create.
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As you enter the name for the new page, a list of existing pages is displayed. You could select a name from this list to create a forward link to a page you previously created.
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A forward link to a page that has not been created is denoted by a dotted underline
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