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CMS Essentials
January 2013 v1.4.3
CMS Essentials:
Course outline
Brief recap of the Web Awareness and Writing course with ongoing
references to:
• University website: Visual Identity and Web Standards
• The work of web services
• Web roles and responsibilities
• Writing for the web
CMS Essentials:
Course outline
On completion of this course you will be able to:
• Find help and resources (tutorials, web support, site editors and Faculty
Web Editors)
• Open a page for editing
• Find your way around the CMS workplace
• Edit a page, including creating links
• Paste content from Word or other sources
• Publish content
• Use the Person Finder macro to add contact details
• Know what to refer to Faculty Web Editors (for departments, research
groups/centres) or Web Services (for professional services)
What is a CMS?
Content
text, pictures, videos, and other media displayed on the web
Management System
a way of organising all the content, and separating the way it is
presented from the data itself
What will I or won’t I be able to edit?
The template
Part 1: Improving an existing page
Editing an existing page using the principles of web writing and good
content layout.
Improving web content: web writing and layout
• Focus on what you know your audience wants
• Plan: prepare and organise content in advance
• Decide and place your conclusions first
• Place 'calls to action' at the top (submit, apply, visit)
• Should the content be kept, cut down or culled
• Look at other University web pages for duplication
• Use plain English and be brief, direct and clear
• Regularly review: relevant, up to date, engaging?
• For effect: don’t centre text in the web page and
don’t put headings in bold
Break
Part 2: Common tasks
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Pasting content from another source
Uploading and linking to a PDF
Understanding publishing
Adding contact details
Any questions?