Content Cards
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Content Cards are a compact, attractive way to present an image, link, and/or label. Once they've been set up, they're easy to edit.
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Courses
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The Courses feature offers an easy and attractive way to simply display the courses that you will be offering during a given school year. The format makes it easy for users to interact with your courses list. Courses is a feature that is not turned on by default in our Luggage platform. If you would like this feature added to your site, please email websupport@iastate.edu and we'd be happy to add it!
Images and Photos
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How to add images/photos to any website content
Want to add a graph to a summary of your research? Or perhaps you want to add a banner to an announcement you've created? This tutorial will show you everything you need to know about adding images to your content. This tutorial is broken up into four parts: basic image uploading, adding alternate and title text, editing your image with WYSIWYG, and linking to your image. Let's get started!
News Articles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How to publish or unpublish content on your website
Step 1: Make sure you are Logged In
Step 2: Edit Tab
The checkbox to publish and unpublish content is an option at the bottom of your options under the "Edit" tab.
Resources
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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
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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