ADDING CONTENT TO YOUR LAB SITE: ADD PAGE

Pick “Page” from the “add item” menu, and you get a screen asking you to put in the content for that page. Fill in the title, a brief description (which will appear in a gray box between the top banner and the white area for the body text), and then type in your body text.

Click here for a quick explanation of the buttons in the text-editing interface, which is very similar to Microsoft Word. If you’re copying and pasting blocks of text into the text editor, make sure you don’t copy and paste directly from Microsoft. Doing so would bring over text styles that are not supported by the Web site and could cause formatting issues. Instead, copy and paste from Word into Notepad, then from Notepad into the text editor. You can also insert images into the body text area (more on this later).

Below the body text box, there is a field called “Related Items”. You can use this feature to insert links to other pages within the School of Pharmacy site that are relevant to this page. For instance, if a page on your lab site is about a particular faculty member, and you know that School’s site has a “Faculty Spotlight” feature on him/her, you can insert a link to that story at the bottom of your lab page. Click on “Browse” and in the window that pops up, type in a search term, and you’ll get a list of results. Find the item you are looking for and click Insert. If you’re not sure if an item is the one you’re thinking of, you can click the “view” link next to “insert” and that item will pop up in a new window for you to see. (NOTE: The “insert” and “view” links are way off to the right of the search window, so you’ll have to scroll to the right or maximize that window to see the links).

At the bottom of the page, there is a field that asks “Allow Discussion?” Setting this on “Enabled” would give other registered users the option of adding comments at the bottom of the lab page, much like a discussion forum. While only registered users can leave comments, any public visitor can read what they wrote. So unless you really mean for a page to be a discussion forum, leave this set to “Default”, which will disable the comment function.

Click “save” at the bottom of the page when you’re done.

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