Hi Harry!

The hardest part is finding the webpage, but I think we talked about locating webpages and navigating the backend.

Go ahead and correct the typos in the following paragraph.

Fixzing tipos is easy. It's just like correcing typs in Word or eny othr applicaton. Just insert your cursor that conatins the error and make the fix.

Add

Adding simple content is also easy. Let's look at the first line of our Mission Statement and fill in the missing words.

The IU Graduate School Indianapolis serves the campus community by for all aspects of graduate education.

Now let's copy and paste something from a Word document. Hint: DO NOT COPY FROM WORD AND PASTE DIRECTLY INTO THE WCMS. Word has hidden code that could mess with how the content looks on the website. I run everything through Notepad first because Notepad strips all hidden coding. You should have Notepad on your computer.

To copy and paste from Word into the WCMS

1. Using Windows search function, search for Notepad and open it.
2. Copy the content from Word and paste it into Notepad.
3. Now copy the content from Notepad and paste it into where it goes in WCMS.

Paste the content you copied from Notepad here:

Delete

Deleting content is easy, too. It's like any other deletions you do in other programs. Again, let's look at the first line of our Mission Statement and delete the words and sentence that aren't part of it.

The IU Graduate School Indianapolis serves the highly trained campus community by advocating for all aspects of graduate education. We really like you guys! Seriously!

Now let's delete a block of text that is sandwiched between two sentences.

Leave this sentence in. Highlight this sentence. Now hit the delete button to delete "highlight this sentence".

There is a caveat to how easy adding and deleting is. Sometimes you may not get the format you want when adding and you may delete code that gives styling and format to the content. Contact me if you notice the formatting isn't working.

When adding links to content, you must consider whether it will be an internal link or an external link because these links are treated differently.

• External links - links to external websites.
  
  • These are easy peasy since you just cut & paste the link into the link source field.
• Internal links - any links that will take you directly to a page within graduate.iupui.edu.
  • Internal links take more steps. That's because you have to work within the organizational tree. You can't cut and paste the URL into the link source field once we open the Insert/Edit Link dialogue box. You have to search for the page.

First of all, one major Best Practice rule that I am constantly correcting is DO NOT SAY CLICK HERE or GO HERE. DO NOT DO THAT. Just DON'T. Why not? If we want to be ADA-friendly, Click Here/Go Here is confusing and frustrating to the ADA community. And it could potentially be confusing to our non-ADA constituents. Click Here/Go Here is meaningless and lazy content writing.

Instead, use the title from the website to which you are redirecting people as the content you will add the link to. We'll get into examples below.

Let's add a link to the University Library home page.

1. Navigate to the University Library home page and look at what the title of the page is called (for convenience, here's the link University Library you can navigate to). You'll see that UL's home page is called University Library.
2. Copy the URL and come back to this page.
3. Highlight "University Library home page" in the very first sentence above. You can also just highlight University Library and still be well within best practices.
4. Across the top on this page, you will see a chain. Click on that to open up the Insert Link dialogue box.
   
5. In Link Type, select External. The box will change to look like the above. In Link Source, paste the University Library's URL. In the Target dropdown, select New Window. Hit Ok. You're done!

And as you can see per Best Practices, the name we gave it on our page is the name they call it on their page. No confusion.

Internal links are selected by navigating through the organization tree. You will not be able to cut & paste Graduate Office webpage links like you do for external.

Let's link to our Graduate Programs webpage.

1. In the above sentence, highlight Graduate Programs webpage (or just Graduate Programs, either is ok)
2. Open the Insert Link dialogue box. It defaults to Internal. Click in the Link Source box.
   
3. On the right, a menu will appear. Click on Browse, search for Program (not programS), click on the "program" radial button, then click on "Choose".
   
4. You are back on the Insert Link dialogue box. Unlike the external link, we do not have to change the Target default. Leave it at None. Click OK. You're done!

This is the easiest peasiest of all! I'm not even going to do screen shots.

Let's say you have a link that is broken and you have to fix it.

1. This ancient IU Graduate School Indianapolis link is broken.
2. Insert your cursor anywhere that is within the link, so anywhere within "IU Graduate School Indianapolis".
3. In the ribbon, instead of selecting the chain link, select the broken chain link right next to it. When you hover over the broken chain, it says Remove Link. Click on it.
4. Done!

I'm grouping this all together because it is a seamless process.

1. Once you have made your edits, click on the highighted "Preview Draft" at the top. (If you didn't make edits or do not want the edits to take place, click on the Close button instead.)
2. Across the top, you'll see Submit highlighted. Click on that. A dialogue box opens. Click on Submit. You have now submitted it into the WCMS, but it is not yet published.
3. Review the page. If it needs further editing, there's an edit button across the top that when you click on it, it takes you back so you can further edit.
4. If everything is ready to go, click Publish.
5. On the dialogue box that pops up, click on the down arrow by View Publish Settings. Scroll down to Destination.
6. You will see two destinations - Sitehost - Production and Sitehost - Test
   

   We do not want to go live with these pages so make sure Sitehost - Production is unchecked. Production is the term for going live. We only want these pages on our test site.

7. At the top, click on Publish
8. If you were editing something that needs to go live on our website, then check Sitehost - Production along with Sitehost - Test.