Monday, July 5, 2010

How To Edit an Article

Log in to the back end of your site. Click on "Content" and select "Article Manager". You should see a list of articles that we have put in as samples for you to use. We will start with the "Policies" page. Click on the name of the page to open it.

The boxes named "Title" and "Alias" can stay the same, if you choose. If you have a more creative name for your policies page, go ahead and change it. But change the Alias so that it's the same thing, but the Alias should be in all small letters. The alias should also have dashes, and NO spaces, between the words.


The drop down menu that is titled "Section" allows you to make the article part of a group or collection of articles under one section, and several categories. For example:this page is put into a section called "Instructional", and a category called "How Tos". Under the section "Instructional" we could add more categories, like "videos", for example, or"tutorials". On one of our clients sites, a section is called "Articles". The categories are categories in which she wanted the articles to be divided. The individual articles were all put into the "Articles" section, but put into the category where they fit.

The icons and symbols at the top of the page are pretty much standards for editing your content. The white icon, second from the left on the bottom row, next to the "Insert Horizontal Ruler" is a tool that allows you to remove code. You can highlight a section of your manuscript and click on that icon, and all formatting will be removed. You can then start over using, bold, italic, different header fonts, or anything else you want.

All that's left is typing or pasting in your content.

Warning!

Do not cut/copy from any document, especially Microsoft documents,  and paste them directly into your content area. There are codes, forms of codes, and code "bloat" that could make your web site look really strange, and you will regret it.

Instead, copy your content and put it into something like Notepad, that comes as a standard accessory on any Windows computer. Notepad strips all extra code from your content. Just remember to copy/cut again from your Notepad screen, then paste into your content area on your website.

Do not use WordPad. If you type your content directly onto your website page, then you don't have to worry about this problem.

The pages that we have put in titled "Policies", "My Great Business", "Product or Services", and "About Us" all have example content that will need to be customized to your business. 

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