Training Manual
For most of you, we will have built your web site for you, added initial content and then given you some tuition over the phone. You know that you can always phone us for ad hoc help and advice, or simply a refresher call if you've forgotten how to do something.
The purpose of this manual is to teach you - in small, bite sized steps - how to update content in your web site. We also try and stress the importance of allowing sufficient time to think about what it is you want to do. If you are adding a new page, how will it fit in on your menu system? If you are editing content on an existing page, how will it look alongside what's already there?
In short, if you are going to update your own site, you must take the time to ensure that whatever you do is done tidily and logically. Visitors to your web site start evaluating you from the moment they land on your web site. For most, it will their first impression of you as a business.
This section of our web site is a good example of this. We try and keep this section as up to date as we can by adding to and amending this manual as new features are added to our content management system. To begin with, let's assume that you want to do one of two things - either add a new page to your web site, or amend an existing one.
Firstly, let's assume you know how to login to your web site. If you don't, or you have forgotten, click here.
Adding new drop down/flyout menus and pages
If you want to know how to add extra folders [ie the way you add a new drop down or fly out folder to your menu system], or add a new page [ie add a new page to your top level menu or add a page to a drop down/fly out menu], or add a link to another web site from your menu system [not a link from content in a page, but from your menu system], click here.
Editing content on an existing page
A page is a blank canvas and the different sections/modules allow you to show different combinations of features; text, images, slideshows, pdfs, on-line forms and embedded code.
Although the most popular way of displaying content is to create a page using one column and one html3 module/section, which is ideal for combining text and images, you an add additional sections and can amend the number of columns in the page.
If you want to add a section, just go to the page using the menu system and click on "add section". Click here for full explanation of what each section/module is and why you'd use it.
If you want to add, edit or delete the number of columns on a specific area of a page, click on the pink edit row/delete row link on the top right hand side of the page. This is the number of columns that this particular area of the page can have. You can amend the number of columns and control the width of each column. NB: If you ever delete content by mistake, we can always get it back for you.
If you just want to edit content in an existing section on a page, click on "edit section" and make your amends. What you do in that section depends on what type of section/module it is. Click here for full explanation of what each section/module is and why you'd use it.
If you want to move a section on the page, click on "Move Section" and then "Move it Here" to put it where you want it.
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