Navigating Your Site

The first step to editing your website, is learning how to get around to all the different pages in it. Navigating your site with this system is just like navigating your site in your web browser. Making adding new pages, browsing old pages, and updating current pages a breeze. In case you do have some questions, all the ways to navigate your site are include below.

Internal Navigation

The simplest way to get around in the system is to simply use your websites Internal Navigation. Click on the page you would like to edit (i.e. About), the system will browse to that page and display it with the editable regions highlighted. You have full use of your browsers back and forward buttons as well, if you want to go back to the previous page you were on.

Site Map

Another option is to use the Site Map Pullout on the left side of your web browser. In the vertical middle of the page you will see a gray rectangle, clicking on this will open up the Site Map Pullout and allow you to click through all of your pages and folders. There are many benefits to using the Site Map Pullout, as it can be a much faster way to reach pages that are buried in sub navigation. Also the Site Map Pullout has the ability to create new pages from templates, and delete old pages that are no longer in use.

Address Bar

Just like with your web browsers address bar, you can enter the exact URL to the page you would like to edit. This may not take advantage of all the pretty features, but it sure does get the job done quickly! The address bar is the only way to get to pages that haven’t been added to the navigation or sitemap. For example if you are testing out a whole new section of your site, this would let you put in the exact URL and get to just that page.

Editing Text

Editing text is part of the core functionality in the management system. When you navigate to a page you would like to make text changes on, you will see small green edit callouts. These callouts indicate that the element they are hovering over can be edited. When it is a text element you will see a small paper and pencil icon in the callout. Click on the callout you would like to edit and it will load up a window containing a What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor.

The WYSIWYG editor provides you with all the tools you need to create well-formed text. You’re no doubt familiar with the majority of the buttons in the editor from use of word processing programs in the past.

Once you have made a change, click the preview button at the lower left of the editor. This will show you a preview in the system of what your website will look like with you changes made. Your website has not been updated yet.

If you have decided you like what you see, you can mouse over the Page Actions button in the preview window, publish the changes immediately or save a draft that can be published or edited further at a later date.