Your login allows you to edit the content on each page of this site and create new sub-pages. (The graphic banner at the top, the footer and the left-hand navigation link names are not editable.)   Internet Explorer 7 is recommended for optimal use of the content editor.

 

WYSIWYG Content Editor Cheat Sheet 

 

Once logged in, you will see "[ Edit ]" and "[ Add ]" links at the bottom of each editable area you have been assigned rights to edit. Click the "[ Edit ]" link to open a page which allows you to edit several items; you will (more often than not) only be interested in the "Content" section, which begins roughly halfway down the page. Note that editing icons are quite similar to those in the Microsoft Word editor. You can place your mouse over the icon buttons and a description of what the button does will appear.

If you wish to add content from a Word or Excel document, or from an existing web page, please use the "Paste from Word" button - - as this function keeps the basic layout of your document while stripping out (most) unnecessary code which can produce an undesirable result: text formatting and styles from the source which do not match the formatting and styles of the web site.

You can add a picture to a page by using the "Insert an Image" button - . Do not copy and paste an image onto a page; the image file needs to be on the web server.  Clicking this button will open a dialogue box which you will use to either select an available image from the list on the left of the dialogue box or add a new one to the list from your computer.  To add a file, click on Browse to view files on your local network and select one to upload to the site by clicking on the "Upload an image" function.

 

Note that images need to be no larger than 80KB and not exceed 500 pixels square in dimension. Images must be in JPG, GIF or PNG format. Once you have placed an image within the text, you can drag and drop it to the appropriate place as you would in an editor such as Microsoft Word.  Click on the embedded image to highlight it and then click on the Insert an Image icon to open the Properties box where you can resize the image or have text wrap around it.

One additional item you may wish to take advantage of in the content editor is the "Insert a Hyperlink" feature - . This will create a link to an external website, such as  http://www.duke.edu. (An “external” web page is one that is not on your site, but is at a different web address.)  As with linking to a document, you must first select (highlight) the text which will comprise the link. Next click the "Insert a Hyperlink" button. The ensuing dialogue box will provide you with several options: On the left, you will see "Place in this document" (this is for linking to an anchor on this page – see below), "E-mail Address" (for creating an email link) and "Web Location" (for linking to another web page). The “Web Location” field opens by default.  Paste in the URL/web address of the page you want to link to.  By convention, links to external sites should open in a new browser window.  In the Window field, select New Window from the drop down list before you Submit.  When linking to an internal page (a page on your web site), you do not need to change the default Window field setting.

To create a hyperlink to a particular place on a web page, you first create the bookmark location and then create the hyperlink to it.  To insert a bookmark, click on the page to place your cursor where the bookmark should be, then click the blue flag in the content editor menu - . This will open a dialog box which you use to name the bookmark. Each bookmark on a page should have a unique name (one, two, three, etc.). Bookmark names should not include spaces, slashes (\ or /), punctuation (!, ?, @, #, &, $, %, *, etc.) or other special characters. Bookmark names can include dashes and underscores.

Then, in order to link to the bookmark, highlight the text that will comprise the link and click the "Insert/Edit a Hyperlink" button - . From the "Insert Link" dialog, select "Place in this document" from the menu on the left which will populate the main window with avaiable bookmarks on the page. Select the appropriate bookmark and click "OK."

The "[ Add ]" button allows you to add a new page to a section which has sub-pages, such as Our Programs. Once you are logged in to the system, navigate to the main section to which you would like to add a sub-section. Click the "[ Add ]" button at the bottom of the content area. This will bring up a page similar to that which you use to edit existing content, but will contain no data in the editing fields. Visible: Check this box if you want the link to the new page to appear centered at the top of the page, underneath the main section header. In some cases new content may not warrant including a sub-link, for example supplementary information (such as a definition) which supports the main content and is accessed via a hyperlink within the main content. In this case you would leave the "Visible" option UN-checked, and create the link to the supplemental information using the "Insert/Edit a Hyperlink" instead.