Templates

1. Homepage Template: template for Homepage ONLY
2. Subpage Template: template for all subpages
3. Personnel Template: template for personnel pages
4. Accordion Template: template for subpages using the accordion feature

SEO: Google Analytics, Site Description & Keywords

Google analytics code, site description and keywords are included under Extras in Configurations at the top menu. Feel free to update the information as needed.

If you want your meta descriptions to be page specific, you can edit the "Description" field in the resources options. However, if the "Description" field is empty, the overall site description will take precedence.

If you do not have Google Analytics and wish to install it on your site, please view these instructions.

Navigation

If your navigation contains subnavigation (child) items, please follow these instructions to ensure the menu stays expanded when those subnavigation pages are visited.

1. Visit the parent navigation page and click the Template Variables Tab. Then click the category named Navigation.
2. In the field labeled Meta-Navigation, enter the name of the parent page. Example: If your navigation item is called "Research" and has 3 child pages within it, enter "Research" into the Meta-Navigation field.
3. Save.
4. Repeat the above steps for all child pages on which you want the subnavigation to remain expanded. Example: Visit each of Research's child pages and enter "Research" into the Meta-Navigation field for each one.
5. To ensure a menu stays expanded no matter what page you're on, you'll need to enter the name of the parent page in the Meta-Navigation field on every page of your site.

Images

To ensure that your images are the appropriate height and width, use the free cropping tool Pixlr.

Images in Content Area

Upload image to appropriate folder (documents, images, secure) within the User Media Files folder located in the File tab

Ensure the 'Image Properties' settings on all images ...

• include a description of the image in the 'Alt text' text field,
• do NOT include width/height

Forms

Please contact PMACS Web Team to add a new MachForm to your site.

RSS Feeds

Please contact PMACS Web Team for RSS feed support:

• Update an existing RSS feed
• Add a new RSS feed
• Gain access to the RSS Generator Application
• Request a new RSS Generator Application feed

Google Calendar

Please contact PMACS Web Team for Google Calendar support:

• Display a new Google Calendar on your site
• Combine Google Calendars to display on your site

Secure Documents/Web Pages

You can PennKey protect a document by uploading it to the "secure" folder located under files, inside of the "User Media Files" folder. You would then link to the secure document in one of your web pages.

If you want to PennKey secure a web page, add "secure/" (without quotes) before the name in the alias form field when editing the page

Create a Container with Sub-menu Items in your Navigation

Create a Container (parent navigation)

NOTE: This page technically does not exist on your site, its sole purpose is to act as a top-level navigation item that contains child pages, or sub-navigation items.

Here are the instructions on setting up a container in your navigation:

1. Under the "Document" tab
   • ensure that "Uses Template" is set to (empty)
   • ensure that "Link Attributes" includes: rel="category"
2. Under the "Document" tab
   • ensure that "container" is checked
3. Save

Sub-menu items (child pages) within a Container

NOTE: The resource title and resource alias of the parent resource must be named similarly

Here are the instructions to keep the parent navigation open when a child page is being visited:

1. go to the "Template Variables" tab of a resource and locate 'Meta-Navigation'
2. include the parent resource name in all lower case and with no spaces
3. Save

Be sure to set the 'Meta-Navigation' on all child pages

User Styles

Remove format on content using the T_x icon

Ensure you clear all styles when you copy and paste from a different program (Word, plain text, web page, etc). When copy/pasting content, make sure to highlight everything and click 'Remove Format' (The italic T with the small x). You can also use the clipboard options.

Styles dropdown options

User Styles are found in the toolbar above the content area. Locate the 'Styles' dropdown and select style.

Content type	Style name	Style Description
Image	'Image Left'	Styles image to the left, wrapping text to the right of image
Image	'Image Right'	Styles image to the right, wrapping text to the left of image

Including special characters

For quotation marks or other special characters, select 'Insert Special Characters' found in the top row of the toolbar. Make sure your cursor is clicked in the content area to select a character and include.

Links

Making email addresses hyperlinks

1. Enter the email address into the content area.
2. Select the email address you just entered and click the link icon from the menu.
3. Within the "Link Info" tab:
   • Choose "Email" from the "Link Type" drop down menu.
   • Enter the email address in the "Email Address" field.
   • Click OK.
   • Save.

Making phone numbers hyperlinks

1. Enter the phone number into the content area.
2. Select the phone number you just entered and click the link icon from the menu.
3. Within the "Link Info" tab:
   • Choose "URL" from the "Link Type" drop down menu.
   • Choose "Other" from the "Protocol" drop down menu.
   • Enter the phone number in the URL field in the following format: tel:+1-555-555-5555
   • Click OK.
   • Save.

Link to a document/file

• Drag & drop file:
  • Upload file/document to User Media Files > documents folder in the Files tab
  • Highlight the text in the content area that you want to link
  • Drag & drop the file onto the highlighted text from the "Files" tab
  • Save.

Symlinks

Symlinks are pages that pull content from a different page, but allows you to customize other resource options. This can be particularly useful for duplicated content within the site.

There are 2 ways to create a symlink:

1. Click the symlink "" shortcut button.
2. On a new document, click on the settings tab and change the "Resource Type" to symlink.

Static Resources

Static Resources allow you to link to add PDFs within the navigation of your site.

There are 2 steps to create a static resource:

1. Click the static resource "" shortcut button.
2. Click the "" icon to the right of the Static Resource field in order to add your desired document.
3. Under the "Settings" tab, change the content type of the static resource to "PDF".
4. Save.

Special instructions unique to your site

Put any special instructions here.