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Site Management Tips & Tricks

To add content to this site, click create content below.  Please do not add webforms, pages, stories until you have training on those.

Create Content

Click here to manage content, especially banner headers on the home page.

Tips

  • If adding content to the site and you copy/paste from Word or another web page, the formatting will often conflict with the existing format of the site.  It often helps to paste the content into Notepad first and then copy/paste from there so that the formatting is lost.  You can then reapply the formatting using the toolbar the web site gives you when you edit content.
  • Some of the content on the site needs to be ordered.  Usually, when this is the case, a field called weight or order will be added to the content form so that you can specify the order of this piece of content on the page.  The best way to do this is to go by increments of 10.  So the top piece of content would be weight 10, the second would be weight 20 and so on.  Having holes between these numbers gives you the ability to insert something between two items later.
  • In order to edit a principal, you have to go to the About Us page, and then click on the picture of the principal you would like to edit.  From there you will go to the page where you can actually edit their content.
  • If while editing content, you would like to create a carriage return in a line of text instead of the normal paragraph that gets created, hold SHIFT key while hitting enter.
  • If you add images to the site, on a header banner for example, and they don't show up then it's probably because you have a space in the file name.  Make sure that all uploaded files have spaces removed.

Uploading Files

  • If you would like to enable the user to download a file or view a PDF then the file must be uploaded to the web site.  Each file must be associated with a specific page.
  • When you create or edit a page, you can manage the file for that page by expanding the "File Attachments" section towards the bottom of the page.  Here you can upload or delete new files.
  • There is a checkbox called "List" next to each upload.  This option indicates whether or not you want the system to show the list of files at the bottom of the page.  In most cases, you do not want this so go ahead and uncheck the "List" option next to the files you upload.
  • Once a file has been uploaded, you will need to create a link to the file so that users on the site can actually click something and get it.  In order to do that, you must locate the file URL (internet address) that is shown directly below the file name you uploaded.  It will look something like http://www.yoursite.com/sites/default/files/somefile.pdf
  • Once you found the file URL, copy the file path, which is everything after the site name.  In other words, you want everything after the http://www.yoursite.com
  • This is /sites/default/files/somefile.pdf in this case.  The first slash is critical here.
  • You can now create a link to your new file by highlighting some text and clicking the link button, which is represented by the chain icon.  In the Link URL field, you can paste your file path /sites/default/files/somefile.pdf
  • Congrats, that's all there is to it.