How to create a new text page (unproofed draft)
1. Log in as a user
2. Scroll down to menu with which appears beneath your log in name
3. Scroll down to Contents:
create content
+ News item for RPE (for posting materials originally published in some other news source)
+ UH E.D.Column (for front page columns by ED "fromn the Director's desk ADMIN USE ONLY)
+ UH Pay Pal item (for posting items to be sold via the pay pal accout using pay pal generated code ADMIN USE ONLY)
+ book page (for RPE magazine pages and for self contained menu sections)
+ dashboard (for RPE magazine section breaks, front page or other areas needing dual column ADMIN USE ONLY)
+ image (for any graphic files which will be used to illustrate pages (jpeg gif png
+ page (for Urban Habitat static or near permanent pages with major navigation from front page )
+ poll (test item not yet implemented for taking surveys of membership ADMIN USE ONLY))
+ story (for Urban Habitat events, updates and temporary items that are not permanent pages )
4. Choose the content type you need to create based on the descriptions above or the instructions of the webspinner. Create admin level pages only if you have been authorized by webspinner. NOTE there is a complex relationship between the section header, the side menus and the layout choices based on the type of page and the path alias. (see path alias below) If the results you get provide unexpected menus or colors check that the content type is appropriate and that the path name is corect.
5. The content page will open with a form layout with many items already selected or filled in. Leave the defaults for date, user, promoted to page etc. as they are unless you have a specific reason to change them.
6. Enter a title for the item. This is a human readable title that will display in the navigation bar and as the headline of the page. Use normal capitalization and spacing.
7. Enter a path alias. This is a url address that can be more readable than would othewise be generated but it must be all lowercasenospaces. If the item displays in the UH section of the site the first part of the should be the letters: uh/ after the forward slash add the letters of the department or section uh/sec after the department add a meaningful short word or number to describe it uh/sec/meeting9-1
8. Select from the tag boxes the ways in which you want to categorize the content for auto generated links such as isms, topics and type of story. UH permanent pages DO NOT need to be tagged with any attributes.
9 . Paste or write the content of your page into the body box.
NOTE: USE MICROSOFT WORD SOURCED FILES WITH CAUTION. SPELL CHECK PRIOR TO PASTING SINCE WE DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE SPELL CHECKING ON THE CONTENT.
If you paste directly from a word document you will likely be adding large amounts of formatting and style commands which may display erratically, will slow down views for readers on low bandwidth connections and more importantly can cause conflict with other parts of the page. The best procedure is to save the document as text only format. this can be accomplished by cutting and pasting into the Notepad accessory.
10. Reformat the text as necessary using the formatting bar below the body box. It is preferable to use the style commands that are available in the pull down menu --Styles-- Select the text and choose body text to get an idea of what the main body will look like. Choose subhead for subheads within the story. Try the other styles if you like but most of them are specialized. You can also style the text using the bold and italic buttons.
In order directly access the html you can click on the blue letters html and a pop-up window with the html will pop up. Click word wrap to see the full text. You can also turn off fthe text editor and workf directly with the html by choosing disable rich text at the bottom of the body box just below the add image icon.
11. Leave the input format with its default (usually Rich Text Format) unlesss there is a specific de-bugging purpose.
12. .Log messages are optional ways of communicating with oher content crreators working on the same page. They canonly be seen by logged in users.
13. The weight checkbox determines the order of stories in the navigation menu compared to other items of the same type. The lower the number the higher the itme floats up in the menu.
14. To insert images or to attach a file see attaching files, uploading pdfs, or uploading images sections.
15 To preview the file before it goes live click on preview. Click submit to publish NOTE IF YOU PREVIEW AND LEAVE THE PAGE YOUR WORK WILL NOT BE SAVED.
16. You can position an item in a departmental submenu by exiting the edit window and opening the "outline" tab at the top of the page. You will see a massive scroll down pop up with all the outlined menus of the whole site. You can attach your page to your department main page or a subpage within a department
