# What pages are

A page is writing that is not about one product: delivery terms, an about page, how to open an account. Each gets an address of its own.

Products and collections are the goods on the shelves. Pages are everything a customer needs to read before they trust you with an order: how delivery works, who you are, what happens when something goes back.

![The Pages list showing seven content pages: Contact Ironvale, Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions of Sale, Technical Support, Trade Accounts, Delivery and Returns and About Ironvale Industrial. Each row gives its address, a Visible badge, an author and when it last changed.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/storefront/pages/pages-list.png)

*Each page with its address, whether it is visible, and when it last changed.*

## What the list shows

- **Title**: The page's name, with its address underneath so you can see where it sits.
- **Visibility**: Whether the page is served at all. A page can exist and be turned off.
- **Author**: An optional byline. Most pages leave it empty.
- **Updated**: When the page last changed.

Select any row to open the page in its editor.

## How a page is built

A page has a top half and a bottom half, and they are edited in different places.

- **The page record**: Its title, its address, whether it is visible, whether search engines should index it, its byline and its search engine listing. All of it on the page editor.
- **Its sections**: The bands the page is actually made of, stacked in order. Edited under Manage sections, which is the same editor the homepage uses.

A page that is purely writing is one Text Block section and nothing else. A page that needs a form, a row of contact cards or a call to action stacks those as further sections.

## What belongs on a page

- **A page**: Something a visitor reaches on purpose and might bookmark or be sent a link to: terms, delivery, trade accounts, an about page.
- **A homepage section**: Something a visitor meets on the way past rather than goes looking for.
- **A menu entry**: How they find either without knowing the address.

> **Note:**
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> A page is not in a menu simply because it exists. Creating a page and adding it to the header or footer menu are two separate jobs, and a page with no menu entry is reachable only by its address.

## Visible, and indexed, are two questions

**Visible on storefront** decides whether the page is served. **Hide from search engines** decides whether it is offered up in search results. Terms and privacy notices are usually visible and hidden from search: customers must be able to read them, and they are not what you want a search result to open on.