TERMINALFOUR
SiteManager Introduction
January, 2014
Objective
• To enable you to modify the structure and content of a
website using TERMINALFOUR Site Manager
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Agenda
• Introduction to TERMINALFOUR Site Manager
• Understanding the interface
• Sections, Content and Content Types
• Adding links, images, tables
• Mixing types of content
• Media Library
• Modifying and deleting content
• Questions
• Workshop
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What is Site Manager?
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A WEB Application
• TERMINALFOUR Site Manager is a web
application
– Every click or interaction requires a response from a
server
– Only requirement is a web browser
– Does not save data unless told to, so avoid using the
browser navigation (e.g. back/forward buttons)
– Allows you to preview changes immediately
– Supports various user profiles
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Rights & Roles
Visitor
 View published
content
Contributor
Moderator
Power User
Administrator
As Contributor
As Moderator
As Power User
 Add content
 Add content
 Modify content
 Modify content
 Assign & create new
users
 Delete content
 Delete content
 Establish channels,
websites & intranets
to publish to
 Add to Media
Library*
 Add to Media
Library*
 Approve content
 Create site structure
 Publish now*
 Approve content
 Publish channels*
 Publish now*
 Create styles,
workflows,
navigation &
templates
 Manage users,
styles, workflows &
templates
 Assign &create new
users
 Reports
 Access control
 Set configuration
* Depends on user’s configuration
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The Site Structure
• TERMINALFOUR Site Manager uses a tree structure
similar to Windows File Explorer
• Each section in TERMINALFOUR Site Manager
corresponds to a page on your site
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The Interface
User profile options
Menus
Site Structure
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Section menus
Reports indicators and
Content status bars
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Functions in Site Manager
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Content Types
• Content Types are used to make it easy to add different types of
content to a webpage (e.g. text, images, links, downloads, etc)
• Content Types are determined by the Administrator
• It is possible to use multiple Content Types on one webpage
• A Content Type is selected when adding new content
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Content types, modules and pages
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Content types, modules, pages – GLOBAL home page
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Adding Content
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Where content fits in
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Content Types Examples
• Media/document
• Event/Event
• News/Article
• News/Announcement
• Profile/Staff
• Media/Video
• There are more for Global
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Creating Links
• Link types:
– Web links
– Links to eternal web pages
– Section links
– Links to pages in the site structure
– Content links
– Links to pieces of content on pages
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Web Links
• Used for creating links to other websites by
entering the full URL in the pop-up box
• Also used for email by entering
mailto:name@domain.com in the URL field
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Section Links
• Used for creating links to
other pages within the
site
• Expand the Site Structure
as much as needed and
select the section you
wish to link to
• If a page is moved, the
link is automatically
updated
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Content Links
• Used for creating links to specific pieces of content on a
page
• First select the page from the Site Structure
• Then select the specific piece of content to link to
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Adding Images To Content
• Images are stored in the Media Library.
• To insert an image on your page, click
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Questions?
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