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News Articles

How-to create a news article on your website


Did someone in your department or laboratory just do something great? If your answer is "yes," then you want to create a news article.

Projects

How to create a project on your website


The project content type on Luggage is useful for showcasing research that your department has done. Listing grants and showing project start and end dates are some of the features that the project content type provides. Read this tutorial for more information about creating a project page.

 

Step 1: Creating Your Project


Using the menu bar at the top of the page, hover over the "Content" tab and select "Project" from the "Add Content" menu (Note: your menu may look slightly different):

Pages

How to create a page for your website


In this tutorial, you will learn about the page content type. The page content type is for any basic information, such as informative pieces, that do not fall into one of the other content types; announcement, event, news, people or resource.

Step 1: Creating a Page


Under the administration menu, select Content > Add Content > Page 

Page Order

Order settings are used minimally on Luggage. There are only a few features that allow you to change the order: menu items, category items, and project pages. This tutorial will teach you how page order can help you organize your projects.

The page order field can be found near the bottom of your project page editor. If I create a new project, this is the value of the page order field that I will see:

Publishing/Unpublishing Content

How to publish or unpublish content on your website


Step 1: Make sure you are Logged In


Step 2: Edit Tab


edit tab

The checkbox to publish and unpublish content is an option at the bottom of your options under the "Edit" tab.

Resources

How to create a resource on your website


In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a resource.  The resource content type is used for links that are off site.  A good example would be an on-campus program or organization that is affiliated with your department.  This negates the need for landing pages and allows for better tagging and categorization.

 

Step 1: Creating a Resource


Using the menu bar at the top of the page, hover over the "Content" tab and select "Resource" from the "Add Content" menu.

Video Pages

How to add a video page to your website


In this tutorial, you will learn how to add video content to your Luggage website. The video content type essentially allows you to add a video to your site and still have the same fields as the page content type. The video will appear in the top of the page.

Step 1: Creating new Video content


Under the administration menu, select Content > Add Content > Video

Text Formatting

How to use text formatting tools on a website


Step 1: Locate the text formatting buttons


The most frequently-used functionality of the WYSIWYG toolbar is probably the basic text formatting options: bold, italic, and underline. These buttons are located in between the superscript button and the quote button:

Quotes and Lists

How to utilize the quote and list buttons


Do you need to indent a section of your content, such as a block quote? Or do you have a list of items that you want offset from the rest of your text? The CK Editor allows you to perform both functions. This tutorial will walk you through both actions.

Step 1: Making a Quote


The quote button is located between the underline button and the bulleted list button. It is useful when you want to indent part of your text.

Linking/Unlinking

How to link and unlink content


Two important CK Editor features are the link and unlink buttons. Though the CK Editor does allow you to link to a site by simply pasting a URL into the text box, the link button is useful for embedding links. Here is where the link and unlink buttons are located on the CK Editor toolbar:

Screenshot showing link and unlink buttons

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