Advanced Editing

How to get started working on your website: logging in, finding and adding content, how to use summaries, and more

Get help through the Digital Team or Ektron’s online user manual. 

Everything web maintainers need to know about website menus

The optional Headline field will replace a page’s title when the page is actually being viewed. It is located on a page layout’s Metadata tab.

While most functions of the new web editor are easy to figure out, there are some differences between it and the previous editing system.

Information about posting news, getting it into IUP Now, using sticky news, suggesting a news item, and writing an effective news post.

Rather than creating pages, in Ektron you create content blocks and make them come together on a template.

Do you have an event happening? Be sure to add events of interest to your unit’s calendar.

An FAQ page should already be created for you on your website; all you need to do is type in the question and answer. But if you need to add a new FAQ page, follow these steps.

Using the “Edit in Context” function is best for quick edits only, such as correcting typos or punctuation. For full editing functions, please use the workarea.

The Inspector is where the Introduction style is set, plus it is used to align and properly describe images.

Summaries are displayed in collections, tables of contents, search results, and possibly other locations.

Adding, uploading, and resizing photos; making a carousel slideshow; displaying a video on your webpage; making photo galleries; and more.

You can upload PDFs as well as Microsoft Word and other Microsoft Office files into the content management system.

You can create a collection of links to other content on the website.

How to format the content of your pages using the styles in the CMS.

How to add new content to the website through the CMS workarea.