Creating Content Pages

• Managing Nodes in a Page Hierarchy A node is simply a reference object that allows you to select a group of related pieces of content. It provides an intuitive method for organizing your content pages.

• What Is A Node? A node is used solely as folders to group child nodes and/or pages. Nodes cannot be viewed in the frontend (in your web store) It provides an intuitive method for organizing your content pages.

• Image Management and Uploading In Magento Go, you can create and manage the images that are used in your themes and content pages using the image management tool. This tool, which pops up when you click Insert Image on any content page, allows you to upload, delete, and use the images in your media storage.

• Managing CMS Pages CMS (Content Management System) pages are static pages such as your Homepage, About Us, and Customer Service pages that provide information about a web store and are managed through the Backend panel. CMS pages are full pages that are available via their own URL address.

• Adding Page Links in the Navigation Bar This article explains how to add page links to the navigation bar of your Magento Go store. The navigation bar is the main set of links, usually linking to category pages, which customers use to find products and information.

• Creating a CMS Page with Navigation This article shows how to use Page Hierarchy to create a CMS page with navigation.

• Understanding Page Column Layout Each page of your Magento Go store has a fixed header and footer, with a content area that is divided into one, two, or three columns. In addition, you can apply different layouts to any content page you create, including your home page.

• Sample Content Pages Magento Go comes with several default content pages that you can use to get started. At the very least, you will need to update the Home, About Us, and Customer Service pages to replace the sample data with content that is suitable for your store.

• Editing a Content Page All content pages on your site use HTML tags to format the text. Unlike a word processor, Magento Go's content editor inserts the proper codes directly into the text. Even if you don't know HTML, you can work in the "what you see is what you get" text mode, or directly with the HTML.

• Creating Content The quality of your content helps distinguish your store from others, increases your visibility to search engines, provides support to your customers, and gives them more reason to come back.

• Creating a New Page The process of adding a new content page to your store is essentially the same for any type of page you create. This series of articles explains how to create content pages for your Magento Go store.

• Step 2: Create a New Page This series of articles explains how to create a new content page for your Magento Go store. In this step, you will select the page layout.

• Using the Editor Magento Go provides an easy way to create and format content without having to learn or write any HTML or CSS code.

• Linking Pages Magento Go provides several different ways to link to content pages. This series of articles explains how to generate links with the Frontend App tool, and how create your own using HTML and markup tags.

• Using Markup Tags A markup tag is a snippet of code that creates a relative reference to an object in your store. Markup tags can be incorporated into page links and used in the HTML content of a CMS page, block or email template.

• Adding a Markup Tag to a Page Link This set of articles explains how to incorporate a markup tag into a URL, and link to a page. You can use markup tags with HTML anchor tags to link directly to any page in your store. You can also use this technique to make an image "clickable," and linked to a specific page.

• Linking an Image to a Page The Media URL markup tag can be used to link any image that is in media storage to any CMS content in your store.