Welcome back.
So let's get started building your store.
And the first thing I want to show you is how to create pages.
Of course every e-commerce store has many pages.
And by the end of this lecture, you're going to understand exactly how to add pages to your store.
So let's get started by adding the contact us page so that your customers can get in contact with you.
So if I come down here to the online store again, click on the little I to actually open up the store.
I'm sure you remember up here in the top menu we had contact and if I click on contact it opens up a
contact us page.
So straight away you might be thinking, well if we've already got a contact us page, why are we creating
one?
And the reason for that is because this contact us page at the moment is Shopify getting a little ahead
of itself, because this is a form, and this form right now doesn't actually work.
So what we want to do is to delete this contact us page.
So straight away you're going to see how to delete a page.
And then we'll recreate it in a format that actually works for us at this point in time.
So let's start by deleting this page.
And to do that we'll go back to admin, come down to the online store and actually click on Online store.
And that's going to open up this additional menu.
And of course at the appropriate time I'm going to show you all the functionality of this menu.
But right now what we want are the pages.
So click on pages and you can see here straight away the contact page.
Now to delete this what I need to do is to check this box and then come over here to where it says actions.
Click on the little arrow and select Delete Pages and then click on delete one page.
And so now with that page deleted what we want to do is to now add back in the contact us page.
And to do that or to add any page, all you have to do is to come up here to the button where it says
add page.
So I click on add page and it presents me with this template.
And this template is exactly the same for every single page that you will create in your Shopify store.
So we have the title, then we have the content of the page itself with the content editor.
Below that we have the search engine listing preview.
So how this page is going to look when it shows up in the Google rankings, when people are searching
for your store.
And then over here in the top right, we have visibility and you can see we have two options.
We can either make the page visible or the page hidden.
So you might be thinking straight away, well why would we want to hide a page.
Well imagine we're working on it and it's not quite ready.
So if that was the case, we could keep the page hidden until it was ready, and then we could make
it visible.
And then finally down here we have the concept of templates.
Now, I don't want to get into this at this stage, but just know that you can create all kinds of different
templates for your pages.
And right now it's on the default page and that's absolutely perfect.
So let's go ahead and actually create this contact us page.
So coming up to the title we will of course put Contact Us.
And then for the content I want to help you out by giving you some text that will get you started.
And that text is as follows.
Hi.
Thank you so much for dropping by my store.
My name is Tim.
Of course you're going to put in your own name there, and I have put together a selection of fantastic
products that I am really passionate about.
I really hope you enjoy browsing my store.
Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me now.
Of course, you don't have to write exactly that text, but if you are unsure of what to write, then
that really is a great starting point.
And one of the reasons why it's a great starting point is because I mentioned my name.
So let me expand on that a little bit.
One of the key points to succeed online is building trust with your customer.
And one of the best ways to build trust is to have a human connection.
Now, in the real world, that's a lot easier.
People will walk into our store and we will have the opportunity to chat with them.
But of course, online we don't have that option.
And it's for that reason that it's really important to create the human connection in other ways.
And this Contact Us page is a great way to start simply by mentioning my name shows straight away that
there's a real person behind this site, a real person who's passionate about what they're doing and
that they're ready and willing to help.
So a simple yet very powerful way to start building all important trust.
And as the course develops, I'm going to be showing you many other ways to build trust online as you
build your fantastic business.
But right now, this really is a great start.
So with that text in place, I can then scroll down to the search engine listing preview, which you
can see has now been automatically created using both the title and the text that we entered.
Now, just to be clear, this is what people are going to see when they're searching for your store
in the Google rankings.
And again, using the text, I've given you what they're going to read.
There is a very friendly and effective way that will hopefully entice them to click on the link and
visit your store.
Now, just circling back to the content itself, we have a little bit more work to do here because it
says here, please don't hesitate to contact me, but at the moment we haven't put anything and you
might be thinking, well, there is no way to contact me.
Well, in fact.
There is.
You have the email that you originally used to sign up for Shopify, and for me, that email was Tim
Dropship expert at gmail.com.
So of course you'll want to put in your own email address at this point.
And so now you have a fantastic Contact Us page with some great text showing up in the Google rankings,
and your customers can easily get in contact with you.
And so now just to finish going up here to the visibility, we'll want to make this instantly visible
so we can leave that as is.
And as I said before, the fact that this is on default page down here for the theme template is absolutely
perfect.
We don't need to touch that.
And so all we need to do now is to click on save.
So let's go up the top here and click on the save button.
And when the page refreshes you can see that it says contact us created.
And now if I go down and actually click on the pages menu item, you see the page listed here.
And just for completeness, if you ever wanted to go back and edit this page, all you need to do is
to hover over it, click on it.
It opens up once again, the page editor and I can make any changes that I want.
And then finally, let's have a look at the page itself.
And in order to do that, let's come up to here where it says view page.
I click on view page and here is my contact us page.
So I really hope that you've gone ahead and created your own Contact Us page.
Because if you have, you've not only created the very first page for your e-commerce store, which
is a really exciting moment, but now you also understand how to create any page for your business.