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Tips: Custom Pages

April 30, 2009 - Billy Linker

What's a custom page? Glad you asked. Custom pages are a great way to add secondary pages to your channel that are navigationally linked via your channel’s home page. Custom pages can very helpful as an organizational tool or as a way to feature content on your channel.

What does a custom page look like? Here are a few channels that are using custom pages well. Look along the left hand side at the custom page navigation (the text links).

www.alongthemetro.com

whostwittinnow.magnify.net
 
So how do you put a custom page on your channel?

Adding a custom page is easy to do:
1) Sign into your channel and go into site admin
2) Go to the "design" tab
3) Click "Change custom page layout." 
4) From here, you will see one page listed, "Home", which is your current home page.  Click "Create a new custom page". You have 13 standard layouts as well as the ability to clone your home page
5) You're done! Well not quite yet – you still need to add content to your page. Add modules just like you would to your homepage.

Now you have an awesome and exciting page.  Create as many custom pages as you would like. To get into your custom page layout, go back to the "design" tab and Change Custom Page Layout.

For step by step instructions on created custom pages, check out our video tutorial

And if you make something great make sure to share it with us so we can feature it on the blog – Billy (at) Magnify.net