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# Creating content
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When you're adding new content into your GovCMS website you need to first choose what [content type](/govcms-content-administration/understanding-content/what-are-content-types.md) you want to use.
From the Admin toolbar, hover over **Content** and then select **Add content**.
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On the training environment you'll be presented with the following user interface, however your actual website will have different content types.
Click the name of the new content you wish to add. In this example it will be a **Page**.
You'll be presented with the **Content form**. This is the same form you'll see when you edit existing content, but when editing content the fields will be pre-filled.
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An empty Create page form
To create new content, fill in all the **mandatory** fields (those marked with a red asterisk) and select the blue **Save** button.
The right-hand column includes [Menu settings](/govcms-content-administration/menus-and-navigation/overview.md), [URL alias](/govcms-content-administration/url-aliases-and-redirects/url-aliases.md) and [URL redirects](/govcms-content-administration/url-aliases-and-redirects/redirects.md), however these are covered in later topics.
### 🎥 Video
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Video transcript
Welcome to the GovCMS Introduction to Content Management series. In this video, you'll learn how to create, edit, and archive content
in GovCMS. We'll cover the following three topics. You'll learn how to create content from the content management area. Then you'll learn how to edit existing content.
And finally, you'll learn how to archive content once it's no longer needed. So far in this video series, we've covered how to access the content form.
We talked about the different content types and fields, and we've covered how to use the rich text editor. Now let's go ahead and create some actual content.
So make sure you're in the content management area and click on Add Content, and let's create a standard page.
Let's enter in a title. I'll enter in Contact Us, and I'll paste in some test content. And let's go ahead and add a feature image.
And from the Save as, let's select Needs Review. We'll cover content moderation in another video. But for now, just select Needs Review and click on Save.
And now you can see our first page, which we just created. We have the title, the featured image, and the body text.
At this point, we've created a page, but now let's look at editing it. If you're currently on the page, to modify or edit,
just click on Edit. You can also edit the page from the content management area. Click on Content in the toolbar, and from the operations columns,
click on Edit. Both links will take you to the same form. This page isn't published yet. If we open up another browser and go to the page, we'll get an access denied
message. And if we go to the content management area, we can see that the page isn't published yet because it has a status of unpublished.
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