Adding a Page to Your IndieMade Site

A page is where the writing that is not a product lives: About, Shipping & Returns, FAQ, a wholesale page, a page for the next craft fair. At its simplest a page is a Page Title and a body of text. You can put any page in your header or footer menu, and any page can be your homepage. Pages are included on every plan.

This help page is itself an IndieMade page. We use the same tools you do.

Adding a page

  1. Go to Dashboard → Pages and click Add Page.
  2. Type the Page Title. Be descriptive: search engines show this title in their results, so use the words a shopper would search for.
  3. Write the page in the editor. Use Format for headings and the picture button to add photos. The first couple of sentences matter most; search engines often use them as the description under your title.
  4. Set the options below if you need them, then click Save Page.

The options under the editor

  • Build this page with Section Manager: hides the title and body so you can build the whole page out of sections instead: big pictures, columns, buttons, galleries and products. Use it for a homepage or a landing page. See Building Pages with the Section Builder.
  • Search engine optimization (SEO): click to open it. The Page Title and Meta Description here are what Google shows; they are filled in from your title and text if you leave them blank. URL is the page's web address. Leave it blank and one is made from the title, or type your own starting with a slash, such as /about-me. See SEO on IndieMade.
  • Provide a menu link: tick it to add the page to a menu. Type the Menu link title (keep it short, such as About) and pick the menu under Parent link: <IndieMade Site Menu> is your header menu and <Footer> is your footer. Pick a link under one of them to make a dropdown. You can change it later in Menus.
  • Published: untick it to keep the page hidden while you work on it.
The bottom of the Add Page form: Build this page with Section Manager, the open Search engine optimization section with the URL field, Provide a menu link with Menu link title and Parent link, and Published, each circled
The options under the editor on Add Page. URL is inside Search engine optimization (SEO); click its heading to open it.

Editing, hiding and deleting pages

On Dashboard → Pages, click a page's three dots to edit or delete it, and use Search Pages to find one on a big site. You can also edit a page while looking at it on your site; see Editing an IndieMade Website.

Making a page your homepage

Go to Settings → Basic Site Info and choose the page under Homepage. The list also has your Store, Categories, Blog and Galleries. For a designed homepage, make a page with Build this page with Section Manager ticked and choose it here; then build it with the Section Builder.

Tips

  • Every shop needs an About page and a Shipping & Returns page. They answer the questions shoppers ask before their first order.
  • Keep menu titles to one or two words. About reads better in a menu than About Our Family Studio.
  • Change a page's URL once, early. If you change it later, IndieMade sends the old address to the new one, but links people have shared will look different.

Questions? Email support@indiemade.com.