DotAdmin User Guide
The Page Details Tab
Tabs in the Page Editor.
The default view of the Page Editor is the “Page Details” tab. Not all of the fields on this page are required - in fact, the only real necessities for a functional page are the Title and Content Section areas, but the other fields can be very useful. They are all explained below.
The Title and Meta Information fields.
Page Title
As well as being the title of the page, this field is also used as link text for links to this page in your site navigation. For Example: In the image shown above, the page title is “Customer Information”, and so any links to this page will also read “Customer Information”.
This is only a default behaviour, however, as the link text can be customised in various ways. For more details, see the “Nav Settings” section of this Guide.
Meta Keywords
Meta information was, historically, used by Search Engines to determine how relevant a page was to a user's search criteria. Nobody can be sure how important this information is to modern search engines, as their page ranking algorithms are closely-guarded secrets, but there is evidence to suggest that the most popular search engines still make some use of Meta data when rating a page - although engines such as Google take the entire content of the page into consideration.
Meta Keywords take the form of a word, or ‘keyword phrase’ (a short, two or three word phrase), followed by a comma, then the next keyword or phrase, and so on. For example: ‘holidays, travel agents, flights, bookings, flight bookings, package holidays, accommodation’.
If you wish to include Meta Keywords for your page, you may include as many as you like, but search engines may not read all of them if the list is very long.
Meta Description
Used for the same purpose as Meta Keywords, the Meta Description takes the form of a brief description of the contents of the page. In addition to using this to rate your page, some search engines use this as the description they offer to users in their search results.
Content Sections
Content Sections.
The content of a page is divided into one or more Content Sections, which contain the text and images which make up your page. This division of content can be useful if, for example, your designer has provided a page template with two or more distinct editable areas (as shown in the example below). Your authors can then edit these areas separately, without having to tip-toe around any difficult HTML which separates them.
Uses of multiple content sections.
Editing of content sections is performed by clicking the Edit icon  next to the relevant content section, which will open the content block in the WYSIWYG Content Editor. The up and down arrow icons are used to change the order in which content sections appear in your page, for pages which have more than one content section.
Short Description and Page Template selection.
Tagline / Short Description
The Short Description is used to provide a brief summary of the page in your site navigation to help visitors find their way to the content they are interested in.
Page Template
This controls the overall “Look & Feel” of the page. The default setting is to use the same template as the other pages in this zone, which is usually the most appropriate setting.
Clicking the “Details” link for each selected template will show a pop-up window containing any notes your designer has provided about that template, which should help you choose an appropriate option if you feel that the default template is not suitable.
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