- Your site and account will be created by an administrator of the CPTC website. When you are able to access your account, login at https://www.cptc.edu/respect4tech/login
- You will now have the ability to access your site at https://www.cptc.edu/admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/site/overview
- Here, you will see an overview of all sites that you own (usually just one). Click edit on the site that you want to edit, and you will be taken to the edit page.
- Here, you will see the various settings of your site. You can update:
- The Site Name (Which appears above the site menu on every page of your site)
- The Site Url Base (which is the beginning part of the URL for every page on your site)
- NO SLASH. Adding a slash breaks your site.
- The Homepage (The site name displayed above the site menu on every page on your site will link to your site homepage.
- The menu (Note if you leave the menu field blank, an empty menu will be generated for your site.
- Permissions
- Site Admin: Only Administrators can change who the site owner is, but if you are on this page in the first place, the site owner is probably you.
- Site Publishers: These are the editors that you trust to make page edits to any and all pages on your site. They will also be able to update your site menu. They will, however, not be able to delete pages, menus, or menu items.
- Footer: All footer fields represent what will be displayed as contact information in your site footer on every page of your site.
Note: Do not forget to click save at the bottom of the site edit page to confirm any changes made!
For the purposes of managing this site, a node is a page.
Visit https://www.cptc.edu/admin/content/node to see a list of all nodes you have edit access on.
Adding Content
From the content overview page, adding a node is as simple as clicking the "Add Content" button. From here you will be asked to choose the content type that you wish to add. In most cases, you will want a basic page that will take you to the node add page. At the bottom of the add page is the important "Site" field. Please ensure that you choose a site you have access to before saving, otherwise, your newly created page will not be accessible to you.
The title of the page will be displayed at the top, followed by the page sections. You can add multiple sections to the page to break up your content, and to each section, you will add paragraphs. Understanding paragraphs is the key to content management on this site. Some paragraphs types such as 2/3 column layouts and responsive grids are containers for other paragraphs. Further, paragraph types like sliders and slides are containers for specific paragraph types only (slides and slide layers respectively). A good place to start is by placing a text paragraph into your page and adding some text. To learn about more advanced paragraph types, please attend a training held by MarComm.
Editing Content
Clicking the edit button next to a node on the content overview page, or just clicking the "New Draft" tab (sometimes "Edit Draft" if there is already an unpublished draft of the page) at the top of the page you want to edit will bring you to the node edit page. This looks a lot like the node add page, except the site will already be chosen for you, and will not be able to be changed.
You can manage your site menu at https://www.cptc.edu/admin/structure/menu by clicking "Edit Menu". From there you will be able to add, arrange, and even delete menu links from your menu. This menu will appear on every page of your site using the hierarchy specified on this page.
Another way to manage menus is on the node add/edit page.
