Menus, Signposting Pages and Content Pages
Overview
Pages deliver the core content of a website which provide detailed content.
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 a bit like the chapters in a book.
Without knowing the exact web address of a content page or signposting page a user will be unable to find this unless its linked to a menu item; in the case of content pages, these should be added to a signposting page and in the case of signposting pages, these should be added to the Top-Level Menu (like the contents page in a book).
It is strongly advised to keep the number of links on the Top-Level Menu items as low as possible.
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 People, 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 Top-Level Menu Items
Your website will come with the following signposting pages:
Finance
Policies, Documents and Plans
Local Information
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 (address) 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
Content Pages
Under your signposting pages, you will want to have a number of content pages. Below are some examples of pages that you may wish to put under each of the signposting pages:
- Under the "Finance" Signposting Page - Year End Accounts by year pages or accounts by document type, Grants and Donations
- Under the "Local Information" Signposting Page - allotments, defibrillators, cemeteries, grass cutting, footpaths
- Under the "Policies, Documents and Plans" Signposting Page - Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, Code of Conduct, Publication Scheme, Climate Plan, Neighbourhood Plan, Resilience Plan and any other documents you have agreed.
For more information see the article creating-pages