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Explain the services clearly

Lesson 11 of 24

Create and publish a Services page that explains lawn care, seasonal tidy-ups and regular garden care without inventing prices or claims; add Services to navigation and prove a signed-out visitor can reach it.

Before you start

Before you begin Chapters 1–10 produced Home, About, Advice, one advice article, an informative checklist image and navigation. Home currently names three services, but a visitor cannot yet tell what each one includes. This chapter fixes that information gap. We are still building a fictional course website, so our service descriptions explain structure and scope rather than pretending a real business has quoted or completed work.

1. Create the Services page

Open Pages → Add New Page and title the page Services. If WordPress opens a pattern chooser, close it. Add this introductory paragraph: Choose the kind of help you need. Cedar Lane Garden Care is a fictional course example, so these descriptions show how a small service website can explain scope clearly without inventing prices, customer results or service areas.

Start Services with a clear explanation of what the course example does and does not claim.
Start Services with a clear explanation of what the course example does and does not claim.

2. Add Lawn care

Insert an H2 heading: Lawn care. Below it, add this paragraph: Routine mowing and simple lawn tidying for established lawns. Then add a short line under a bold label Not included in this course example: Turf installation, chemical treatments or large landscaping projects. The exclusion matters. A useful service page helps someone understand both the likely fit and the boundary.

Services editor: Lawn care with clear scope and truthful limits.
Services editor: Lawn care with clear scope and truthful limits.

3. Add Seasonal tidy-ups

Insert an H2 heading: Seasonal tidy-ups. Add: Leaf and debris clearing, light pruning of small plants, and general garden tidying. Then add: Not included in this course example: tree work, high ladders or hazardous-waste removal. We are not teaching gardening safety or professional arborist work here. The website should not make those services appear available merely because the phrase would sound impressive.

Services editor: Seasonal tidy-ups with clear scope and truthful limits.
Services editor: Seasonal tidy-ups with clear scope and truthful limits.

4. Add Regular garden care

Insert an H2 heading: Regular garden care. Add: Repeat visits for agreed routine tasks such as mowing, weeding and general tidying. Then add: Frequency, access and the exact task list would be agreed before work on a real website. Do not add a weekly price, minimum contract or guaranteed schedule unless the real business has supplied and approved those terms.

Services editor: Regular garden care with clear scope and truthful limits.
Services editor: Regular garden care with clear scope and truthful limits.

5. Add a simple scope note

At the bottom of Services, add an H2 heading Before you choose a service and this paragraph: A real enquiry would confirm the work, access, timing and any limits before a visit. Cedar Lane does not publish prices or promise availability in this course example. This gives us a useful destination today without pretending the future enquiry system is already working.

6. Publish and inspect Services

Save, preview and then publish Services on the disposable site. Open the visitor page in a signed-out browser and scan the headings in order. The page should make sense without images. We are not adding three stock photos simply to fill the layout.

The published Services page distinguishes the three types of help.
The published Services page distinguishes the three types of help.

7. Add Services to the existing Navigation menu

Open Appearance → Editor → Navigation. Open the existing Navigation menu for editing. Add a Page Link for the published Services page and place it after Home. Keep Home, Services, About and Advice in that order. In this WordPress version, the Navigation editor saves this menu directly. Choose Save, wait for it to finish, then reopen the menu to check the stored order. Do not edit a page template or Styles for this task.

Add the existing Services Page to the controlled navigation.
Add the existing Services Page to the controlled navigation.

8. Test the visitor route

Open the site signed out. Follow Services from Home at desktop width, then repeat at 390px using the narrow menu. Check that all service headings and exclusions remain readable and that there is no sideways scrolling.

The same menu links remain available at a narrow width.
The same menu links remain available at a narrow width.

Practise

Build the three service sections and explain one honest exclusion for each. Publish the page, add it to navigation and reach it as a signed-out visitor. Success check: the visitor can distinguish Lawn care, Seasonal tidy-ups and Regular garden care, and no price/availability/customer claim was invented.

Check your result

the visitor can distinguish Lawn care, Seasonal tidy-ups and Regular garden care, and no price/availability/customer claim was invented.

If something goes wrong

- Services is missing from the link picker: confirm the Page is published, not still a draft. - A service heading looks large but is not in the document outline: select the block and set it to H2 rather than styling a Paragraph. - The save panel lists a template change as well as Navigation: cancel, undo the accidental template edit, and save only the intended menu change.

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