How to build your website content pages – Growing Good

What are content pages?

In your Growing Good site, content pages form the main informational parts of your website. These are any pages that you create that are not a shopping category page. You can create any page you like using our page builder, these pages can be added to the top navigation menu or the ‘about us’ section in the footer.

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What pages should I create?

Common non-shop pages on our websites include:

About us

Delivery information

Have a bricks and mortar shop? (Add a page about that)

How to order

FAQS

Terms & Conditions

How to create a content page

Step 1.

Navigate to ‘Pages’ 🗒️ in your Growing Good admin

Step 2.

Under the content pages tab click ‘new page’

Step 3.

This will give you the option to either start with a ‘blank page’ or ‘start from template’. Templates include full page designs for common pages with a preview of the page.

Step 4.

Select the option you wish to start building the page with.

Using the page builder starting with a blank page

Once you have created your page start by giving the page a title in the ‘Title’ field. Start adding content blocks to your page by clicking on ‘Add block or preset to content’.

A pop up will appear with the different content blocks that can be added to your page. See our content block guide on the different types of content blocks and how to use these.

Once your first block has been added you can then add more blocks to the page by clicking on the block, which will reveal the plus icons above or below the selected block. Click on the + icon where you want to add additional blocks.

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Save your changes. Whenever you have completed making changes in the website builder on a particular page always click the ‘Save’ button located in the top right. If you refresh or navigate away from the page your changes may be lost.

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Your temporary storefront site - when you first start onboarding with the platform you will be provided with a temporary site to view the site you are building. Make sure to check the site to make sure you are happy with how the site looks in your browser.

Once a block has been added you can edit the settings for the block by clicking on the content block. This will reveal the editing widget on the right hand side of your screen giving you options such as:

Deleting the block

Making the block full width

Spacing options top and bottom

Changing the background colour of the block

Specific settings related to the block type

Continue to build out your page until you are happy with the design and content that has been added.

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Design with mobile shopping in mind first. The majority of shopping takes places on mobile devices these days. When going through the design process you should check how the site behaves on all devices. For example Google Chrome developer tools enables you to see how the site behaves and looks on different devices.

Adding content pages to your navigation menu

Once a content page has been created and you’re happy for it to be shown on your site you can then add to the website navigation menus.

Step 1

To change your header navigation links navigate to your store ‘header’ settings settings > store. To edit the ‘about us’ links in the footer click ‘edit’ on your ‘Home’ page from the content page list.

Step 3

Click on the ✏️ icon in either the ‘top navigation menu’ or the ‘about us’ menu in the footer. This will open the page selector.

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About us links that appear in the footer of your website should be used for content pages such as FAQS, T & Cs, Privacy Policy, Contact us etc. Important information but not content you want to have front and centre in the top navigation links.

Step 4

In the left hand column select the pages you want to add to the menu by clicking the ‘check box’ next to them.

Step 5

To add to the navigation menu click on the > arrow in the middle.

Step 6

Click ‘done’ to confirm the additions.

Step 7

Once you’re happy with the pages in your shop menu click ‘Save’ to confirm the changes to the site.