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NovusCMS Web Based Training

In this course you will learn about Logging Into the Solution Creating New Pages Selecting Page Layouts Making Hyperlinks Adding Images and Files Managing Existing Pages Editing your Left Navigation

Logging in First you enter the URL for NovusCMS into your browser. Your administrator can give this URL to you. Enter your user name and password. Now click the Log In button

Creating a New Page Step 1 Find the Create New Page link on the left navigation. Click that.

Creating a new page step 2 Fill out the information you see on the page. Page name in the Web Page URL CAN NOT contain spaces or characters, letters only. Content Title is the title for this page: Home Page, Biography .... Keywords and Page Description are optional to give more information about this page. When you are finished, click Create New Page

Creating a New Page Step 3 Now you will see this page appear.  Notice the comment No Layout selected. Before you can add content you must first select the layout for this page. Click Choose Layout.

Creating a new page Step 4 Here you will see  library of page layouts you can choose from. Select any one of them by clicking on the button next to it and scrolling to the bottom of the page and selecting Save.

Repeating Templates Repeating templates provide you with a consistent structure for your page. They repeat when you fill in content and click the “Save” Button. At this point you can add more content and click “Save” to see the template repeat another time.

Creating a New Page Step 5 You will now notice the layout you selected is noted on this page. Now you are ready to add content. Click on Edit Content.

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You are almost finished. You will see the image added to your page. Now let’s Click Save and Exit

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Finding existing pages All of your pages are located in the My Pages area on the left navigation. My Pages has four sub sets Published pages – these are currently published Pages in workflow – these are pages you are still working on Not Published – these were once published and later unpublished Rejected pages – These are pages rejected by your content reviewer.

Click on My Pages Using the drop down arrow in the center of the page Select the group of pages you want to look in Click the View button to see those pages

Viewing pages in the selected area When you see the pages listed You open the page by clicking on the name of the page This will take you  to the editing screen you saw earlier

Adding a Picture to your Library It is time to add a picture or image to your Private Library. Click on Picture Management

Add a picture to Library Step 2 Now you can select your Private Library to add a picture to it. Click on your Private Library now. Only administrators can add pictures to your Public Library.

Adding a Picture to Library step 3 Now you can select Upload a new Picture

"An Image description is required" An Image description is required. Then browse to the image you want to upload. Now click the Upload button.

Picture upload overview After upload, the picture you selected is available in your Private Library. You can add it to pages when editing a page. You may add new pictures to your Library at any time.

Uploading Files Files can be Word, Excel, PowerPoint or other files like PDFs’. Once a file is in your library you can link to it by choosing a page layout with a File Link in it. Files are uploaded to your Private File Library, exactly like Pictures.

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Adding a link to a File on your web page First you open the web page you want to add the file link to. Then you select a template that has a file link in it. Then you link to the file. The file must be in your library before you begin this process so upload it first.

Linking to a file Open a page and select Change Layout Find a template image that has a link in it. Select that for your page Layout Click the Edit Content

"Make sure you add a..." Make sure you add a caption in the hyperlink caption area. This is the caption your page viewers see. Now click on the Select File button to go to your file library. Be sure to set Open in a new window to Yes.

"From your file library," From your file library, select the file you would like to link to by clicking the Select File Button. If you want to view a file before choosing it click the View File button If you do not want a file link here click the No File button. You can now save and exit and preview your page.

That is how you manage web pages Creating pages Finding existing pages Adding images and files to your library Inserting images or files into your pages

How to link to your pages You can edit your left navigation bar to link to your pages. The left navigation bar on your site is called a Design Element. You will find it in the section called Design Elements

Editing your left navigation Click on Design Elements You should see one listed that has “Left Nav” in the name Click on the name for that element

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"Your nav may look slightly..." Your nav may look slightly different You enter the caption you want and the name of the page on your site you want to link to Your page name goes in the Target area and must have .html at the end of it When you save you get more links on this repeating template When finished click save and exit and you are ready to preview pages

Tips on editing the Left Nav You must add the .html extension to pages you are linking to. If you want to link to a web page that is not on your site you will have to enter the entire URL starting with HTTP:// in the Target area. Your links will not work if you are linking to one of your pages that is not published. Get your pages published before adding them to your left nav.

Thank You You have now completed the training. You can create your pages Add images and files Then make links to those pages on your Left Navigation