Let’s edit the text on the Grants page. Navigate to that page and click on “edit” in the second row of buttons. In the “Body Text” box, you will see a green bar with icons. These icons are similar to the interface in Microsoft Word or other word-processing programs. If you move your cursor over an icon, you’ll see a little text box telling you what the icon does. You can get a list of the icons here.

A brief explanation of some of the icons:

The styles pull-down menu

This contains the styles Normal, Heading, Subheading, Formatted, and SingleSpace. The style you will use 95 percent of the time is Normal, which should be applied to your body text (just highlight your text and select the style). Heading and Subheading are the two tiers of headers you can use. Formatted puts the content in a gray box. As you apply other formatting features, such as tables or lists, you will see other styles appear in this menu.

NOTE: When you are typing in the Normal style, hitting Enter or Return puts a double space between the lines. If you only want a single space, hit Shift-Enter to insert a soft line break rather than a paragraph break.

NOTE: If you are copying and pasting text from a Word document, do NOT paste directly from Word into the browser as it will bring over styles that are not supported by the site’s coding. Instead, copy and paste from Word into Notepad, then from Notepad into the browser. One minor bug to this is that the spacing between paragraphs are reduced to single spaces. To fix it, you’ll have to hit Backspace at the beginning of each paragraph so that it jumps onto the previous paragraph, then hit Enter again, and the paragraph will be double spaced.

Image

Use this button to insert an image into your page. More on this later.

Internal link

Use this tool to link to a page that’s part of the School’s site. When you click the button, a file browser window opens, and you can browse through the site just like on your desktop. Select the page you want, and click OK. The advantage of using the Internal Link tool is that if the page you’re linking to is moved, the link moves with it, so you don’t have to update the link.

External link

Use this tool to link to pages outside the School’s site. Just type in the URL in the box that pops up.

NOTE: Some pages that are part of the School’s site are automatically generated from the site’s database (such as your faculty profile). These pages are not accessible through the Internal Link tool, but you can use the External Link tool and just put in the URL.

Table

Inserts a table into your page. Use this feature for charts, listings, etc. More on this later.

Edit HTML

Takes you into the HTML code for the content of the page. DON’T MESS WITH THIS. Anything beyond basic formatting codes is unlikely to work anyway because the page is locked into a template, and you can do basic stuff like bold or underline using the text-editing interface instead.

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