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By clicking on the website tab you will access the area of the CMS that allows you to edit and design web pages.
On the left of the screen you will see the web address of your organisation's website and beneath that is a folder marked Home Page. Beneath that is a folder marked Advanced Features. On the right of the screen is an options list which will allow you to edit any of the pages that are available on the site. Please note that the pages listed included any you have set up whilst going through the Website Wizard (see fact sheet 1) and the default pages that the Wizard has already included. Click on the Home Page folder that is on the left hand side of the screen.
You will see that the options on both sides of the page have changed. All of the pages which were ‘under’ the home page can now be seen on the left hand side. The home page is the first page seen by visitors when they visit your website. The rest of the pages on the website all stem from that first page. You will also notice that on the main part of the screen, the options are now specifically dealing with the page that you have clicked. So if you click a page on the left hand side, then the
options on the right hand side will change to deal specifically
with that page. Editing & viewing pages: When editing web pages through the MySouthWest administration console it is recommended that you open an additional browser window. Within the second window type in the address of your actual website. This will enable you to edit the pages in one window and see what the page really looks like on the Internet in the other window.
On initially viewing your site you will see all the
things that the Website Wizard asked you about. You
will now get to see if your colour scheme was indeed the right
choice! Editing the home page: Go to the administration window and click on ‘Edit the ‘Home Page’ web page’.
You will now be looking at the main editor page (as above). The web template that was set up by the initial Website Wizard will be visible and inside of this is a red outline with a tab on it saying ‘Editor Loading’ this will change to ‘Edit Content’ once the editor is ready. Click on Edit Content. There will be a small delay and then another window will pop up.
This is the main HTML editor. HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language and it is the programming language that websites are built from. However, the web editor does NOT require any knowledge of HTML. The MySouthWest editor is WYSIWYG, as in what you see is what you get, so you do not need to know HTML to build effective and professional websites. There are a number of web pages within your site that have already been set up with content. These are automatically established to allow ease of managing your site. These pages are explained in the rest of this fact sheet. To learn more about
the HTML editor and editing your own content within the web pages
of your site, please see fact sheet
10. Editing the news page: By clicking on the news page you will notice that it is has a small orange box already within the editor window.
News items should be added via the News interface (see fact sheet 6). When you add news items through the news interface, it is automatically copied onto the news page of your website. The orange box which says 'Dynamic/news_list' does all the work for you. You can add text above it or below it; you can do whatever you want to the rest of the page, but if you leave that orange box alone, then every news item you add to the main news page, will appear in here automatically. On initial entry into the News page it is recommended to delete the site administrator hint box. Do not delete the Orange Box. Once you have deleted the hint and added any other content you would like, select to update the content of the page and save the page. By checking the results in a browser you will see any news item that you have previously entered.
Edit the events page: If you now edit the Events page, you will see it is similar to the news page. Again it is recommended to edit the page and remove the administration tip. Update the page and save it. When you check on the web what the page looked like, you will see that it automatically shows any events previously added through the events tab.
Documents, Photo gallery, Site map and Newsletter: On clicking to edit the Documents page, the Photo Gallery page, the Site Map page and the newsletter page, you will once again see the little orange box which means that the page contains Dynamic Content. (Please see fact sheets 18, 27, 28, 29). SITE MAP: The site map is a list of all the pages available on your website. You can choose to keep the Site Map page and allow people to access it via the main menu, keep the page but not display it in the main menu and thereby stop visitors from seeing it, or you can delete the page completely, thereby preventing anyone from accessing it (including yourself), see fact sheet 23 for more details. Site maps are recommended for websites that are quite big and have multiple 'nested' pages. They ease navigation for visitors who wish to go straight to an area of the site, rather than negotiating a large menu construction. In summary, the Orange Box is called Dynamic Content and is used in a number of areas within the website editor. Should you delete it by accident (or design) please contact MySouthWest for assistance. By leaving it alone, the pages that contain it will automatically update with any required content.
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