Site Editing Help

Getting video links

To put a video in, navigate to a myspace or youtube or google video page, and copy the url to the clipboard. Then go to the Video URL Finder page here, and paste the link in, and click the > Download button. It will then show you a link image like so: Download Link

. Then you right-click on the Download Link

button, and choose copy shortcut.

To use the video in the blog, add a hyperlink and add that url that you copied to the clipboard into the link. If the url does not end with .flv then add this to the end of it: &ext=.flv.

Creating links between content pages

Every content page has a unique ID attached to it. To link, use the following: pages/(id).aspx. Example: pages/102.aspx would be for a page with the unique ID of 102. To create a link in the content, use the Pencil Create Link button

Viewing or selecting content

To view or select content, click the List My Content link. Then open the drop down list to select the type of content you wish to view/edit (Figure 1).

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Figure 1. Content drop down

Editing Content

Editing pages/news/blog items is easy, much like microsoft word, but on the web. You don't have to install anything, or do anything but login and edit your pages.

To edit a page/blog/news item, click the List My Content link on the left side. Then to edit a page, click the

pencil icon. Once you are finished editing, click the Update link.

To add a new page to the site, click the Pencil

Add New Content link.

Deleting content

To delete content, click the

delete icon by the content.

Editing Content Details

Here's a list of fields, and what they mean:

Title - Title of the content/document.
Category - Specifies whether the content is a news/blog/page item.
Expires On - If you specify a date to expire, the content will no longer appear on the site after the selected date.
Is Published - Specifies whether a page is visible on the site or not. To hide a page, uncheck the checkbox.
Teaser - This is a teaser/small description of the content item. This is not neccessary for pages, but for news or blog items, you may want to make use of it.
Article - This is the main text of the content.

How to insert an image/picture into the content

Figure 2. Insert Image From Gallery button

To put a picture into the content, click the Insert Image From Gallery button (See Figure 2). A window will pop up. This window is the Image Gallery. From there you can upload a picture from your computer to the site.

Selecting an image

To select an image, click (once, not double click) on it's thumbnail. Doing this will highlight the image, show you a preview of it, and allow you to specify the way you want the image to appear in the document. You can specify a specific size or a percentage of the image's size in the Dimensions box. In the Properties box you can set the alignment of the image.

Alignment details

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Figure 3. Image alignment with respect to text wrapping

Here's the details on the image alignment.

None (See figure 3)
Top - Aligns the image with the top of the text
Bottom - Aligns the image with the bottom of the text.
Left - Wraps the text around on the right of the image (See figure 3)
Right - Wraps the text around on the right of the image (See figure 3)
Center - Centers the text on the page.
Absmiddle - The middle of the image is aligned with the middle of the text

Uploading an image

To upload an image, click the browse button by the upload button and select an image from your machine. then click the upload button. Once it has uploaded, it will show up in the gallery. If it does not, hit control-r to refresh the screen. Then select the image as stated above.