Context Sensitive Help
Page Detail
- SimpleView vs AdvancedView
- Name
- Title
- Template
- Featured Content
- Image
- Order
- Status
- Head Text
- Introduction Text
- Page Text
Featured Content Detail
Menu
Image
Page Detail
SimpleView vs AdvancedView
SimpleView is a view designed to hide all those things which you don't need to worry about. 95% of the time all you want to change is the title or the page text.
If you have javascript enabled, your choice of SimpleView and AdvancedView will be remembered the next time you visit the page. If you don't have it enabled, you can always change which view you are looking at, by using the links at the top of the page detail page.
Name
The name of a page isn't shown on the page, but is used anywhere that a link to the page is generated - This includes the sitemap, and any pages which automatically generate links to their children pages. It has a different usage to the title as it will form part of any links to the page.
Title
The title of the page is what is shown across the top of most browsers. This should be a description of the page, and should, for Search engine purposes, include the keywords you want that page to rank for.
Template
If your site has been set up with multiple templates then this is where you can change which template this page uses. This can normally be left blank.
Featured Content
Where relevant some sites have been set up with the ability to use "featured content". If your template has featured content enabled then you are able to choose which featured content you wish to display. This can normally be left blank
Image
Some sites have been set up with the ability to attach an image to a page. This is normally the case if there is an changable image in the same place on each page. If enabled, choosing the relevant image alias will change the image displayed for the page.
Order
The order of the page is used whenever a list of pages is generated. This includes the sitemap, and any pages that generate a list of their child pages. If you wish to change the order the pages are displayed you can add a number to this field, and it will order the results accordingly.
Status
The status of a page, determines where it can be seen. The available status are :
- New: The initial state of the page. The page is visible online, but will not appear in the sitemap.
- Published: Most pages in your site should be published. This the the "normal" state of most pages. These will be available online, and will be listed in the sitemap.
- Deleted: In content manager, as a precaution a page isn't actually deleted when you delete it. A bit like the recycle bin you are able to "un-delete" the page. When set to deleted the page will return a 404 error if you attempt to see it online, and it will not be listed in the sitemap.
- Archived: If you have a lot of content on your site you may well want to remove some. However some pages will have links from google and or other sites. If this is the case you can "archive" the page. This means it will not be listed in the sitemap, but it will be available online.
- Special: This is no different in effect to a new or archived page. Pages such as the sitemap, and the 404 page, which you want to be able to have some control over should be set to special. This means they are visible online, but are not displayed in the sitemap.
Head Text
The head text allows you to enter information that will be put between the and tags. This could be extra css information, meta tags such as the description tag, or javascript. This can normally be left blank.
Introduction Text
If your site automatically generates a list of child pages, then it may well also include an introduction to the page. This text is what would be displayed. This can normally be left blank.
Page Text
This is the main text of the page. It should use html tags to format the text you enter. If you have javascript turned on you will be able to use the quick buttons to help create the html. This was written by Alex King of www.alexking.org.
Featured Content
Title
Of the few templates that have featured content enabled, only a small percentage of them use the title. In most cases this should probably just be descriptive, but could safely be left blank. In the minority case this will be used as a "header" for your featured content in the website.
Main Text
If your template has featured content enabled you are able to re-use portions of html on different pages. It is this text which will get output any time you attach this featured content to a page (and the page template has featured content enabled).
Menu
Link Name
The name of the link is what you will see in the menu. E.G. Home, or Contact Us
Link URL
A content manager URL always starts with http://www.yourdomain.com/content/. In 99.5% of cases you can remove your domain name from the link leaving just /content/link.php
- If you are linking to a section it will be /content/section-alias.php
- If you are linking to a subsection it will be /content/section-alias/subsection_alias.php
- If you are linking to an article it will be /content/section-alias/subsection_alias/article_alias.php
Order
A new feature in version 2 of content manager is the ability to quickly re-order menus. By changing the value in this box you will alter the order of the menu, both on your website and in content manager. We suggest you start of by numbering the pages in multiples of 10, as this will give you gaps to put things into if you need to re-order.
Link Parameters
In most cases this can be left blank. Where it is used it can be used in two different ways, and it depends on how your template was set up.
The first is to enable you to give a menu item a different css class. I.e. class="indented"
The second way is if you have a drop down menu in your site. This will "link" the submenu that has been defined with the parent menu.
We are always happy to help you, or to let you know how your template has been set up, so please feel free to contact us.
Images
Image Alias
The Image alias needs to be unique. It should also be as descriptive as possible since it is this that is used in the page detail to allow you to attach an image to the page.
Image HREF
The HREF is the location of the image in relation to your website. It is this value that should be used in the src of your img html tag.
Image Preview
The Image preview is a small version of your image to help you work out which images you have uploaded
Image Alt Text
The Alt text of the image should be a description of the image. This is very important as it is used by screen readers, search engines and any users who have images turned off to describe what image they would be seen.
Image Height
The height of the image is automatically calculated and should in most circumstances be left as is it. If you change this value the image will be resized by the browsers (which normally loses quality).
Image Width
The width of the image is automatically calculated and should in most circumstances be left as is it. If you change this value the image will be resized by the browsers (which normally loses quality).
If you wish to resize the image we suggest resizing the original using a graphics program such as photoshop and uploading the new image. This will preserve the quality better than changing the values using content manager.
Image Parameters
This can normally be left blank. In some templates this is used to add a different css style to the image.