Creating & editing a basic page

Tutorial

Add or Edit

New page

To add a new page, click the plus (+) button in the editor menu (bottom left when logged in) and select "Basic Page".

Edit existing page

To edit an existing page, click on "edit" (top right when logged in) on the page you wish to edit.

Title & Highlight

Title

Your page title should be simple, short, and unique. For example: "Research" is better than "Our division's research".

Highlight

Highlight label & text

The highlight label is a brief summary of the highlight text. The highlight text is a brief summary or welcome to the page.

Highlight images

Images in this area should encompass the theme or feel of the page. They are published alongside the highlight text and should relate to it.

Highlight link

This should link out to directly related content. For example; your page is about application information but your audience may be only looking for the link to the application.

Note on Highlight Width

Highlights change their width depending on the presence of a sub-menu. A sub-menu appears if the current page has pages nested under it in the menu navigation structure. You can learn more about the navigation structure here.

Body content

The majority of editing for your Basic Page takes place in the Body section. Here you can insert and style basic text, add multi-media content such as images, videos and more, and utilize custom layout options. You can find these options in the editing bar at the top of the Body editing box.

Editing options

The editor menu icons, from left to right:

• Bold text
• Italicize text
• Insert link
• Remove link
• Bulleted list
• Numerical list
• Horizontal line
• Table
• Block quote
• Image
• Buttons
• Spotlight
• Sidenote
• Cards
• Format
• YouTube video
• Google Map
• Show Blocks 
• Maximize

format

Formatting helps to visually organize your page. The format drop-down allows you to choose different styles for your text. The default format is Normal which is used for paragraph text that can be styled using the bold, italicize, hyperlink, bullets and numbered lists, table, pull quote and paragraph format options.

Headings

Structuring your page appropriately using headings is essential for legibility and accessibility. Use Heading 2 for main sections of your webpage and nest associated content using subsequent Headings.

Page outline

Adding an Heading 2 adds the text to the page outline which helps a visitor navigate through a page. Please use Heading 2 intentionally with the Page Outline in mind.

images

Adding images to a page is important to create an empathetic visitor experience. After uploading an image be sure to add appropriate alt text (the right thing to do and required by law) and choose how you want the image to be aligned with the text.

Tip: if you do not have any images, check out the UW image resources.

Layout

Creating an engaging visual experience makes your webpage inviting and easier to navigate. Use buttons, spotlights, sidenotes, cards, YouTube videos, and maps to add variety to your page.

Tip: the editor will slightly shift while adding layout options. Choosing show blocks in the editor menu will help minimize the movement.

Buttons

 

Spotlight

 

Sidenote

A sidenote accompanies paragraph text. Paragraph text needs to be longer than the sidenote or the layout will not display correctly.

 

Cards

 

YouTube

How to

Upload your video to YouTube, make it publicly available, and copy the video ID found at the end of the url (the characters after the equals sign):

Paste the video ID into the editor like this: XAIOBEweAWA

Highlight the copied ID with your cursor and click the YouTube icon in the editor bar, this will embed the video on your site like the example above.

 

Google Maps

How to

Create a map in Google My Maps, make it publicly available, and choose Embed on my site.

Copy only the url from the pop-up and paste it directly into the editor like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1tr2W6IBJ-eMNLvk3ZJ-3TWD7XyFiJUCY&ehbc=2E312F

Highlight the copied url with your cursor and click the map icon in the editor bar, this will embed a live Google Map on your site like the example above.

Files

Note: The standard content on our websites is HTML. Users have difficulty reading and navigating documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs) online. If you have to upload a file, it must be accessible.

Choose Browse to upload a file, right-click on the blue file name to copy the link, and link to it on the page where appropriate. This will allow users to download the file.

UW logo

You can add the UW logo to the top right of any webpage by choosing Add UW logo to page. Adding the UW logo can help with brand and message consistency.

 

Menu & URL

Menu

To add a page to the website navigation expand the menu settings and select "Provide a menu link". The title of the page with automatically populate to the "Menu link title" area. You can put the link in the menu by expanding the "Parent link" option and placing the new page where appropriate.

URL alias

Be sure to give your new page a URL Alias. This is how you give your page a helpful link like "/about" or "/about/services/radiation-info. 

Breadcrumbs

Using the image above as an example, the page would show "Home" followed by "About" as the breadcrumbs. This is path is found when you visit a page and look at it's URL.

Best practices

• Keep URL aliases short, but descriptive
• Use hyphens or underscores instead of spaces (spaces are not recognized and will be replaced by "%20" in the url)
• Use all lower case letters

Publishing

Publish

Select the blue SAVE button at the top right to save and publish your page. Uncheck Published at the very bottom before saving to unpublish the page.

Revisions

Creating a new revision makes a saved copy you can revert to if needed. Adding a log message is helpful to differentiate between changes.

Delete

Select DELETE at the very top to permanently delete a page from the website. This cannot be undone.

Again: this cannot be undone.