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How to create Static Pages

Static pages for example http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/help.html or http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/static/about_us.html are created in a smiliar way to articles.

Step-by-Step

As ever working from the Start Page Click in the Add/Edit box on the > new article link.

This time set...

Article Type

This time set it to 'Static' or 'Regional Static'

• 'Static' pages appear at /en/static/_context_.html
• 'Regional Static' pages appear at /en/regions/_region_/static/_context_.html

Context Title

Set this to the name of the page required without .html

Example: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/static/about_us.html has the context title of: about_us

Common Pages that regions will set up are editorial, mission, about_us, contact, help, support_us

Tick Boxes: Region

If this is to be a regional static page tick the region that pages will apply to eg cambridge

Other Options

Use the rest of the form as you would a Feature for example tick HTML if you will use HTML mark up put you text in content box.

Note text in abstract box will not be shown

Finished

Press: publish / save

Browsing Static Pages

To see other static examples in start page of admin web interface click in the Articles box click on Static or Regional Static links.

You will notice you can Edit, but Preview doesn't work. This is because the link goes to where the article would be, not to the static context.html page.

This was covered briefly in the Regional Pages Setup HOWTO as point 10.

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-- SpaceBunny - 19 Oct 2003
-- WikiKes - 30 Nov 2003 added indexing, changed example to cambridge as I could find some regional static pages there, moved stuff about include files to UkMirIncludesHOWTO
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