This page describes how authorised editors can edit pages on this website. You will have been sent a login by a site administrator, with instructions about where to log in.
Editing general pages
- Log in. There is a link to retrieve forgotten passwords etc.
- You will be taken to a view with a number of options in boxes, which are repeated in the menu at the top of the page
- To edit pages, click on Pages.
- You will be able to click on the ones that you are permitted to edit.
- A simple text editor is provided (the text editor may take a short while to load if your connection speed is slow). You can switch to edit the html by clicking on 'Source' if you know how.
- Headings: use Heading 3 (same colour as text) and Heading 4 (will look black in the editor but shows coloured on the web - blue at the moment) generally. Heading 2 is the size of the page title at the top of the page content.
- Click 'Save' below the editing box and the edited page is immediately online.
- 'View' opens a normal view of the website in another window.
- Who last edited it and when are shown at the foot of the page.
- To add an image it first needs to be uploaded to an appropriate folder in the Media menu (top bar or from the Admin page).
- Make sure it is small - ideally less than 20-50kb, as a jpg, gif, or png file.
- Click where you want the image, then click on the picture icon in the Editing menu
- Select your image by navigating to the right folder within the media folder at the left. Set alignment, padding etc on the right, Preview and then when you are happy, Save.
- You can resize the image on the page.
- To alter alignment, wrapping, click on the image then click again on the picture icon.
- To upload documents you will usually find an area at the foot of your Edit page in which you can upload documents. Add a descriptive title, it's best to leave the overlarge box for other comments blank, but if anything here it should be a max of a few words.
- To add a link, highlight the text or object you want to link to and
- To an external link, click on the chain icon paste the link into the box and click Save. Include http://
- To another page, click on the chain-with-chef's hat icon to the left of the chain icon. Choose the page there.
- To link to a downloadable document from a Media folder (uploaded as in 'Media'), click on the chain icon, then on the 'browse server' button to find your document to link to.
- To add an email link, highlight the text or object you want to link to and click on the chain icon. Instead of Link type - 'url' select 'email link'.
- You can link to another location on the same page by creating an anchor (with your cursor where you want it to appear, click on the anchor icon) then linking to it through the same actions as described for email link.
- To add a new page, go to "Add Page" at the foot of the 'Pages' page.
- Give it a name - shortish (will be used in the menu bar to the left)
- Check the boxes to permit others to edit it - your user group by default; please add 'Pages editor' and 'Everywhere editor' as a matter of course.
- Type - almost always you'll want WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), to allow you to add general content like this. You can add other elements by editing the 'Settings' of the page
- Select a 'parent' page - this must be one of the pages you are allowed to edit.
- Visibility - default is Public and you are unlikely to use anything else (ask if you think you want to).
- Later you can further edit the 'Settings' of the page (full page title, people allowed to edit, other types of page section, see below) by clicking on the paper/pencil icon on the Pages page, or on 'Change Settings' at the top right of the editing section once you have gone to the page to edit it.
- From Manage Sections in the same place it is also possible to add other elements to your page apart from simple text areas. Most useful:
- Download gallery - to allow you to offer downloadable files very easily
- and there are others.
- If you have any problems, contact the webmaster
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