WEBSITE TRAINING: PART 3
Sarah Eagan Anderson ’98
Director of Interactive Communications
Donna Dralus ’89
Online Media and Web Coordinator
Logging In
• www.grinnell.edu
• Faculty/Staff
• Username:
same as
network
• Password:
change on
first login
• Direct URL:
https:secure.
grinnell.edu/
user/login
Once logged in
• URLs start with https://secure.grinnell.edu
• Administration menu in black across the top
• Each page has View Published
• Section
• Revision state
(draft/needs review/
published)
• Most recent revision
(yes/no)
In Your Section
• In-page editing options:
• New Draft
• Moderate
• Workflow
New Draft
• Allows you to edit the content of the page
• Can’t change content type
• Can’t add fields except as indicated
• Common Elements
• Title (page title)
• Body
• Image Gallery (banner image)
• Categories (taxonomies)
• Authoring Information
• Publishing Options
Workflow
• Draft
• Needs Review
• Published
• Moderation Notes
Workbench
• My Workbench
• My edits (default)
• All recent content (searchable)
• File List
• Replace existing documents with same file name
• My sections
• My drafts
• Needs review
Group Info
• “Home page” for each office/department/committee/group
• Key Areas
• Description – 75-word blurb
• Details
• Dept/office information
• Catalog link
• Related Links
• Department Chair
• What’s NOT there:
• News
• Events
• Menu
• DO NOT USE
• Additional Menu Link
• External Menu Links
• Buckets
• Doesn’t Work Yet
• Social Links
Landing Pages
• Title
• Subtitle
• Body
• Related Links — off-site allowed
• DO NOT USE
• Additional Menu Link
• External Menu Links
• Buckets
• Doesn’t Work Yet
• Social Links
News Items
• Title (Headline)
• Body
• Summary – Will become the “teaser” on the Group Info page. Limit
to <140 characters.
• Image gallery
• 720x336
• First image used on Group Info news section
• Categories
• Group taxonomy determines where it appears on Group Info pages
• Scheduling
• Doesn’t work yet
Documents
• No more automatically generated views
• Use group taxonomy
• For now: absolute links
• Adding a new document
• Updating a document
• Removing a document
• Remember: You are responsible for making sure the
document is accessible!
Images
Image Galleries (banner images)
• Landing/Group Info:1500x336
• News Items: 720x336
• Anchor at top left
• Scale to fit width
• Crop center to fit height
Images (cont’d)
Body images
• Must be in Full HTML and use Media module
• Adding an image to the body
• Remember: Alt text is required.
• Reusing an image
• Sizing an image
• Aligning an image
• Linking an image
Forms
• Node must be created before the webform.
• You can build out the webform.
Webform
• Form components (aka fields)
• Emails (generate by the form)
• Form settings (and closing a form)
• Form Validation
Results
• Table
• Outline
Events blocks
• Direct feed from Campus Calendar
• No control through Drupal
• Any changes must be made in R25 (Conf. Ops at
calendar@grinnell.edu)
• Events selected by calendar code.
Faculty/Staff Information
Not available at this time. Contact us for updates.
When you update a dept. chair on the group info pages, please let us
know the new and old chair so we can update their user pages.
SiteImprove
• Groups in SiteImprove
will align with Sections
in website
• Link to set password
will be emailed to you
• Reports for broken
links, accessibility
issues, etc. will be
emailed every 4 days