After you login to Publish, you should be taken directly to the Tasks menu. The number of sections of the website you’re responsible for determines how many folders you see in the main part of the window. If you’re lucky, you’ll only see one folder.

Click the little “+” to roll down the contents of the folder if it’s not already rolled down.

Click on “Add a New Page”

The next screen (below) is a critical step.

Remember this and live better: Page Title is for humans, File Name is for computers.

In the Page Title field put a short description that would make sense to human. The Page Title is what appears at the very top of the browser when a person visits the page. It’s also what appears when somebody saves the page as a “favorite” or “bookmarks” the page. Normally pages for SOU follow the convention of “Southern Oregon University : [department name or program name, etc.]” but you are free to change this if you feel your page title is getting too long.

In the File Name field, using no spaces, no punctuation, no capital letters and no “special characters” such as ()@#%&, type a name that makes some sense as to what the page will be about. Try to keep the file name of a reasonable length, but don’t make really arcane acronyms nobody but you would understand. You can use hyphens or underscores as separators if you like.

The File Name must end with .html unless you’ve been told otherwise.