How to create and design a new webpage on your Website

Requirements

This tutorial requires the installation of the following applications/modules:

Create a new webpage

To create a new web page for website, go to Website and follow the steps below:

Step 1: In the website design view, click + New.

Create new webpage

Step 2: Select Page option.

Create new pages

Step 3:

  • Fill in the information in the New Page pop-up as follow:

    • Page Title: Enter a page name. The page name will be displayed in the browser’s tab.

    Note

    Page Title is included in the URL of the page.

    • Add to menu: Enable this feature if you want the pages to be shown up in the menu bar.

  • Click on the Create button to confirm creating the page.

Confirm pages adding

After clicking Create, the created page will be displayed on the menu bar if you enable Add to menu.

Add pages to the menu

You can create and manage multi websites and setup multi-language for your website.

Create content on the pages

Build content blocks

After creating the pages, users can see the existing content blocks on the website’s tools bar and use them to build and design the pages.

Content blocks for pages

Tip

You can use the Search block to assist webpage visitors in searching for information on the entire website.

Drag and drop the blocks

To drag and drop the blocks, follow these steps:

  • In the BLOCK tab, select the block structure that matches the content you want to create.

Select block structures
  • Hold the mouse button to drag the selected blocks to the page.

Drag blocks to the page
  • Release the mouse button to finish adding blocks to the page.

Drop blocks in the pages

Tip

Use the search bar under the BLOCKS tab to find the blocks faster.

Blocks operation

In addition to dragging and dropping, users could move, resize, remove and duplicate the blocks.

For any action, remember to select the blocks that need to be edited at first.

  • Move: by one of the following two buttons:

    • Click and hold this button to move the block.

    Move blocks
    • Move the block by clicking the arrow buttons.

    Move blocks in the arrow buttons' direction
  • Resize by using these 4 buttons.

Resize blocks
  • Change the background color.

    • Choose another color.

    Choose another color
    • Choose gradient color: choose an available gradient color or click on the Custom button to build another gradient color.

    Choose gradient color
  • Remove: Click on the trash bin icon to remove the image.

Remove blocks
  • Duplicate Container: Choose one of two buttons:

    • The Duplicate Container button on the Columns section is to duplicate all the columns on the added blocks.

    • The Duplicate Container button on the Column section is to duplicate only the selected column.

    Duplicate blocks
  • Click on the mobile device icon to display/hide this block from the phone interface. This helps to display necessary information on your website with a reasonable layout regardless of the device.

    Mobile device icon

Edit content

Edit text

Edit text on the designed blocks by clicking on that text content and using the editing toolkit on the CUSTOMIZE tab.

The text editing toolkit

Users need to select the text that they want to edit and then select the option for editing the text properties.

  • Colors:

    • Text color: Change the color of the text.

    Edit the color of text
    • Background Colour: Change the background color of the text.

    Edit the color of background

Tip

Use the Hex code bar under the colors range to find faster.

  • Font size: Change the font size of the text.

Change the font size of text
  • Paragraph: Align the text.

Align the text

Edit images

Similar to text editing, click on the image that needs to be edited. On the CUSTOMIZE tab, the Image section allows you to select different Shape, Filter, Width and Quality to edit the image.

Edit images
  • Shape: Choose a shape for image.

Shape
  • Filter: Select the filter for the image.

Images filter
  • Width: Select the image resolution.

Change the resolution images
  • Quality: Modify the image size.

Modify the size of images

Tip

Use the Width and Quality features to optimize and improve the loading speed of the images for the pages. Refer to How to do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Viindoo.

Insert media

To insert media (images, documents, icons, videos) to the page, users need to select the area where they want to insert and click the File/Image button.

Insert media to the pages

On the Select a Media pop-up, there are options to add media in the tabs:

  • Image: Select an image to upload, add an URL or search and add an existing image.

Add images to pages

Tip

You can use the free image library at Unsplash: How to integrate with free image library at Unsplash.

  • Document: Upload a document or add an URL. Moreover, users can search and re-use a document.

Add documents to pages
  • Icons: Add an existing symbol. Besides, each symbol has its own name so you can find it more easily.

Add icons to pages
  • Video:

    • Paste an URL or embed code of the video.

    Paste the video code
    • Enable the video display features:

      • Autoplay: Video is auto-played on the page.

      • Loop: Video is auto-repeated after finishing.

      • Hide player controls: The control buttons such as play/pause, volume, settings, etc. won’t be shown on the video’s control bar.

      • Hide fullscreen button: The fullscreen button will not be displayed in the video’s control bar.

      • Hide Youtube logo: The Youtube logo will not be displayed on the video’s control bar.

      Display options of videos

Note

  • The Select a Media feature allows adding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Youku.

  • Videos are muted when Autoplay is enabled.

After any action, remember to click Add to confirm adding media to the page.

Tip

After you create a webpage, you can track your website’s traffic in:

See also

Optional module