Your first page

Start hereGetting startedYour first pageA complete walk through making one page: create it, add a heading, some text, a picture and a button, check it on a phone, publish it and put it in the menu. It takes about ten minutes.Create the page

Open Pages in the sidebar.

Press New page at the top right.

Type a Title, for example "About us". The URL box shows the address the page will have.

If there is a Location box, leave it on — Top level — for now.

Press Create page. The page opens in the editor, empty and ready.

The address fills itself in from the title.A new page starts as a draft. Nobody else can see it until you publish it, so take your time.Add a section and a headingEverything on a page is a block. A Section is a band across the page that holds other blocks, so start with one.

Click the + button (Add block) at the top left of the editor. The block list slides out.

Drag Section from the Layout group onto the page and let go. A dashed box saying Drop blocks here appears.

Drag Heading from the Typography group into that dashed box.

Click the heading and type your words straight onto the page.

With the heading selected, the panel on the right shows its settings. Use Level to choose how important the heading is.

Drag blocks from the list on the left onto the page.Add text, a picture and a button

Drag Rich Text into the section under your heading, click it and type a paragraph or two. Bold, italic, lists and links are in the Formatting box of the panel on the right.

Drag Image (in the Media group) under the text. In the panel on the right, press Choose from library and pick a picture, or drop a new one in to upload it.

Fill in Alt text: a short description of the picture for people who can't see it.

Drag Button (in the Components group) under the picture. In the panel on the right, change Label to what the button should say and put where it goes in Link (href), for example the address of another of your pages, such as /about-us.

While you drag, a green line shows where the block will land. If the line turns red, it can't go there: move a little and try again.Check it on a phoneMost visitors will see your page on a phone. At the top right of the editor are four screen buttons: Phone, Tablet, Laptop and Desktop. Click the phone and the page redraws exactly as a phone shows it, columns stacked and all. You can keep editing while it's on the phone view.Click Laptop or Desktop to go back. See The page editor for more.Publish it and look at itYour work saves itself as you go: the top bar says Saving…, then Saved with the time. Saving is not the same as publishing. Visitors only see the page once you publish it.

Press Publish at the top right. The button changes to Published.

Press View beside it. Your live page opens in a new tab, at the address you saw when you created it.

From now on, any change you make shows Unpublished changes until you press Publish changes. See Publishing, drafts and history.Put it in the menuA new page is set to appear in the site menu, so in most cases it joined the menu the moment you published it. To check or change that, click the Settings tab at the top left of the editor:

Show in menu is ticked: the page is in the menu. Untick it to leave it out.

Menu label lets the menu show a shorter name than the page title. Leave it blank to use the title.

If your site's menu has been arranged on the Menu screen, changes to these two settings wait there until you publish the menu. The Settings tab tells you when that's the case. See The site menu.← The admin at a glancePages and addresses →Getting startedPagesBuilding with blocksNavigation and lookMediaForms and leadsCatalogueShopBookings and membersRunning the siteCairnWebsites for businesses that need more than a brochure. Built, hosted and kept running by us.StartBuildRun© 2026 Cairn. All rights reserved.Built with Cairn.