“The New Basics”: Session Outline

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Introduction

• The Web Team (http://www.iup.edu/web/personnel)
• What Ektron is and what a CMS is
• Your responsibilities (http://www.iup.edu/newsItem.aspx?id=57491&blogid=477)

Login

• Server setup
• Where to log in
• Login Procedure (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=679)
• The Browser and the Workarea
  • Pages are made of content blocks
  • Where to find parts of the home page
  • The editor
  • It helps to keep two Internet Explorer windows open:
    • The browser
    • The workarea

Updating Existing Pages

• Finding the page
  • In the A– Z Index
  • In the Workarea
• Opening for editing (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=2715)
• Workflow and publication
  • What's your workflow? (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=927)
• Making changes
  • Headings and formatting
  • University Style (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=4641, http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=20527)
• Adding pictures

Making a News Post

• The importance of news
  • Show, don't tell
  • Message pillars and your dept.
  • Credibility
  • Google
• Where to post it
• How to post it (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=53613, http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=1399)
  • What just happened: Home page update, News and Events, RSS, IUP Reporter, Media Releases
• RSS and the rest of the web
• Adding links
  • Regular links
  • Quicklinks
• News strategy
  • Write in advance, post weekly
  • Can’t schedule them for publication in advance

Adding an Event

• The importance of events
• Where to post them
• How to post them (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=53615, http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=1427)

Where to Go from Here

• Responsibilities Review (http://www.iup.edu/newsItem.aspx?id=57491&blogid=477)
  • We'll cover the remaining skills in the intermediate class
  • Practice these until then
• When making updates, log in to http://staging.www.iup.edu/iuplogin/
• The How To section (http://www.iup.edu/web/howto/)
• The Web Team News feed (http://www.iup.edu/web/news/)
• Summits and Trainings (http://www.iup.edu/web/events/)
• Web Team e-mail (web-team@iup.edu)

Images

• Resizing Images (http://www.resize2mail.com/)

• Web Team
• Sutton Hall, Room 316
  1011 South Drive
  Indiana, PA 15705
• Phone: 724-357-3062
• Fax: 724-357-5512
• web-team@iup.edu

• Office Hours
• Monday through Friday
• 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.