CMS Training Manual

• CMS Training Manual - Level One

Whistle stop tour of the CMS V8 Interface

Learn about Sections

The following demos show you the steps involved with creating a basic page or section on your website.

Working with sections (pages):

• Create a subsection
• Preview Changes to a Page
• Edit a section
• Move a section
• Create a Hidden section
• Re-order sections
• Create a "Home" link
• Create an external link section
• Delete a section
• Restore a deleted section

Help Google find your page

• Adding Metadata to a Section

Working with Content

Content: the stuff on your page, e.g. Text, images, links. The videos below will show you how to add basic content to a page/section of your site. 

• Create General Content
• Create a Banner Image with Title
• Create a News Item
• How to Approve Content
• Edit a piece of content
• Move a piece of content
• Bulk Actions on Content
• How to Expire Content
• Preview Changes to a Page
• Delete a piece of content

Available Content Types

• Online CMS Content Types Cheat Sheet
• Printable cheat sheet - page 1
• Printable cheat sheet - page 2
• 2017 Content Types Cheat Sheet
• Overview of the 2017 Content Types (Updated September 2020)

Files and the CMS - Media library

 The Media Library:

• Add a document to the Media Library
• Add an image to the Media Library
• Insert a document into General Content

Inserting Documents, and Links in to your content

• Insert a document into General Content
• Insert a section link into General Content
• Insert an external (web) link into General Content
• Insert an email link into General Content

Dealing with long pages

The new style has resulted in many much longer pages. The guide below details how to handle them. 

• Dealing with long pages in the 2017 style

Image Sizes and the CMS

Note re old content type image sizes:

Please note existing content types, such as banner image with title and spotlight block, image sizes remain the same. For functional homepage boxes and righthand side callout boxes images now should be square. 200 x 200 pixels will work for both. 

Allow Pop Ups

The first time you preview a section on your PC a pop-up blocker might prevent the preview from being displayed.

Chrome

• Look for the red X - the top right-hand side of your browser window

• Click this and choose always allow
• Click Done

• Refresh the page using F5
• Then preview the section again.

Note:

Pop-up blockers display differently in different browsers. The instructions above are for Google Chrome. If you are using Internet Explorer (blue E icon), or Firefox, or Safari, do a google search to make sure you recognise the pop-up blocker when it displays.

Webshots - Supplementary Information for CMS Moderators

The ongoing webshot learning series covers a wide variety of topics that are of use to CMS moderators. Each session is recorded, past webshots can be viewed online.