Everything you have made so far has been on one page.
Today your site gets a second page, and a button on the first one that takes a reader to it.
By the end of the lesson your site will have:
Open the interactive on the board. The picture on this step shows both pages.
This is the lesson where a page becomes a site. Worth naming out loud.
A website is a set of pages that belong together.
Think of your school's site: one page about the school, one about the teachers, one with the holidays. Separate pages, one site.
Each page has its own blocks. What you put on one does not show on the other.
A button is how a reader gets from one to the other.
The separateness is the idea. Expect pupils to add a block to the wrong page at least once, and treat it as the lesson landing rather than a mistake.
Your site needs a second page to put things on.
This is the block you need:
{"blocks": {"languageVersion": 0, "blocks": [{"type": "web_page", "fields": {"NAME": "Hobbies", "BG": "white", "FG": "black", "FONT": "sans-serif"}}]}}Check: you now have TWO blue page blocks side by side, the new one BESIDE your first and not inside it.
If it did not work: the new block went inside the first one. Drag it out on to the empty space.
Model this carefully. The new page block goes BESIDE the first, not inside it, and that is the one thing that goes wrong.
Do not send pupils to the Your web page tab yet. A second page is invisible until something points at it, and building that is the next step.
Nothing can show your new page until a reader has a way to get there.
This is the block you need:
{"blocks": {"languageVersion": 0, "blocks": [{"type": "wp_button", "fields": {"TEXT": "See my hobbies", "TARGET": "Hobbies"}}]}}Check: the button sits near the top of your page, and its second box says Hobbies and not (no link).
If it did not work: the second box only offers (no link), so the page block is not there yet or is sitting inside your first page.
The button goes near the top, under the big heading. At the bottom of a long page it falls below the fold of the preview and pupils report it as missing, which is exactly what happened in testing. It is also where a reader looks for a way around.
The second box lists the pages that exist, which is why the page was built first. Build the button first and there is nothing to choose.
A button moves between pages of this site. A link goes out to another website and needs an address. Different blocks.
Now find out whether your button works.
Check: the page goes blank, with nothing on it. That is right, your new page is empty and you are now standing on it.
If it did not work: nothing happened, so go back to Blocks and check the button's second box says Hobbies.
The blank page is the point. A pupil who reaches an empty page understands why the next three steps exist, and it is the honest answer to "where did my page go": it was never visible until the button existed.
The button is the only way back and forth for now. The menu that fixes that properly is the next lesson.
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