Basics of TYPO3 CMS

To create a new page, in the page tree click on the data set symbol before the page, in or after which the new page is to be created.

In the context menu that appears, select in [Page Actions] > [New].

This opens an overview in which you can set the position of the new page using arrows. Select with a click on one of the arrows whether the page should be added before, in or after the one that already exists.

After that, a form opens, in which you can enter the features of the page to be created.

If you have just created the page, a form with various tabs opens in the desktop, which contains several fields that show all the page features of the new page.

The fields that you must fill in are marked with an exclamation mark on the tab in question and in the respective field. For example, the [Page Title] is a mandatory field. Enter the required description in this field, under which the page is to be saved in the future and which should be found both in the frontend and the backend.

Other page features, which you could enter, are a sub-title, keywords as well as a description. These details of page features act to optimise the search engine function.

If you save your entries your alteration is immediately transferred into the page tree and into the desktop. You can also already see a preview on the page in the frontend – still without contents, however. You can now start to create the page contents.

You can make subsequent alterations to a page that already exists – independently of whether you or your colleagues have compiled the page yourselves. In everything that you alter on a page, though, you should always have the optimisation of your website for search engines at the back of your mind. You have various options to alter already existing pages.

You can

• move,
• rename,
• delete,
• or also occasionally hide or unhide

a page.

You can also edit the page features subsequently.

To do this, click the data set symbol of the page to be altered in the page tree and select [Edit] in the context menu.

The form for entering page features opens and you have the same editing options as when you first completed the features of a page.

Even if alterations can be carried out effortlessly with TYPO3, you should if possible never change the name of a page. Of course, this would also be very easy to do by altering the page title in the form, in which you also fill in the page features. A renaming could result in a negative impact on search engine rankings due to search engine optimisation as well as "speaking URLs".

In addition, this would cause the page already listed in the search engine to look negative. It would then seem to the Google search engine that the URL of this page was no longer functioning. Google regards non-functioning pages as errors, which in turn has a negative effect on the ranking of your website in the Google hit list.

When you have created a page, you can also still move this afterwards and therefore alter the layout of the pages in the frontend view of your website.

You can move a page by clicking and dragging the page to the required place in the page tree. When doing so, pay attention to the blue markings – if you see a blue line between two pages, the page will be added between these two pages – i.e. after the page that is above the line.

If a page has a blue background, add the page to be moved into the marked page.

When you have found the required position, simply let go of the mouse again.

Note: When moving pages that have already been activated for a long time, however, make sure that you do not shift any subpages under other higher-ranking pages, as otherwise the URLs (i.e. the exact addresses of the pages) are changed.

The Google search engine can then no longer find the page, which Google perceives as an error, and even visitors to the website can then receive error messages that the page cannot be found.

Subpages under a common higher-ranking page can, however, be promptly moved. As, in doing so, you don’t change the level on which the pages are, the URLs of the pages also don’t change.

You can also still, of course, move pages that have not been activated until now, i.e. that are visible in the frontend, when you like.

You can delete a page of your website, if you no longer need it. Click on the data set symbol of the page and select [Delete] in the context menu that appears for [Page Actions].

A window opens, in which you must confirm again that you really want to delete the page – click on [Yes].

If you’re not sure whether you might need the page once again at a later date, you can simply also just deactivate the page and therefore hide it temporarily.

If you temporarily don’t need a page you can make it invisible with the [Deactivating] symbol. It then no longer appears in the frontend view of your website and is marked in the page tree by a special symbol.

To deactivate you can either set the slider in the [Access] tab in the form to Filling in Page Features or you can select [Deactivate] in the context menu.