Creating, Saving and Publishing a New Page
To begin a new page for your Web site, you are going to use one of your current pages as a template. In Contribute, go to one of your pages that you think will be the most similar to the new page you will be building. We are going to copy this page and make it into a tempate for your new page. Here's how:
Select "File", "New Page", then "Copy of Current Page". You will be prompted to enter a title for your page in the "Page Title" box before going any further. This is important because of several things. This is what helps the search engines find your page, and also what users will see at the very top of the browser (in the blue part). After entering your title, select "OK". See below:
From here, Contribute will make a copy of the page for you to begin editing. See below:
Editing/updating and creating new text on your page.
From here, you can delete the body of the text and start over, or use the current text as your template and type over it to create new text. Your font choices come from the pull down menu on the very left side. The body of the text should ALWAYS be "main_text. This will keep your page consistent with the UT Tyler look. In addition, the titles are mostly title_text_orange2, like below. You do have style choices for small items, so you can have variety in your pages.
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Copying text into your page:
I will not demonstrate this here, but you can also simply copy and paste text from other documents like Word. Simply copy your text from Word, then highlight the area you want to past it into in the body of the page, and select "Edit", then "Paste". It is important that then you highlight the text again, and select 'main_text' from the pulldown style sheet menu to give the proper font style to your text.
When you are finished with all of your additions and changes to your page, you can now publish your page. From here, select the "Publish button in the top-left corner. You may receive a box showing you a reminder message that you will need to add a link to your new page. This is fine, just select "OK"
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Next, a box will come up that will allow you to name your page. In this box it will fill in the page title as the page name. This is NOT what we want to name the page, so you will now want to change it. Remove what is in the box, and fill it in with a simple name that fits what goes along with the page. For example, if you are building an "about" page, then it makes sense to name your page about.html. You will need to complete the name with the .html extention, so the entire name will be "about.html". It is case sensitive, and we do not use capital letters in our Web addresses, so use only small letters.
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You are now ready to select "Publish" to publish your page. From here, you can go back and open the page you need to add the link to this page from. For instructions on how to add a link, go to the Contribute Users Home Page for specific instructions.