| AI Prompt Writing |
As a language model trained on a vast amount of text data, Generative AI models, like ChatGPT, can provide high-quality and relevant content suggestions for your website. It can assist in creating engaging article posts, program descriptions, and marketing copy, as well as improve the overall readability and coherence of your website's content. |
| Article-Based Newsletter |
The website allows editors to create individual articles and later compile them into a curated list or digest. The list of articles is then sent as a newsletter to subscribers who have opted in to subscribe. |
| Best Practices for Web Writing |
Are you writing content for a University of Illinois Springfield website? Use the following guidelines, tips, and suggestions to create effective content, engage and inform your audiences, and improve your overall website performance. |
| Content Review Guidelines |
Use the checklist below to ensure your pages are correctly formatted before publishing. |
| CSS Class Cheatsheet |
.narrow
.wide
.padding-top
.padding-bottom
.padding
.no-padding
.no-margins
.hide - hides element by adding display:none;
.visually-hidden - hides visually but still accessible by screen readers
.video-full - makes video full-width and responsive
.col2
.col3
.grid3
.grid4
.grid5
.grow
.card
.center
.intro-txt |
| Explore Our Two Newsletter Options |
Stay connected and informed with our tailored newsletter options. Whether you prefer curated collections or in-depth updates, we’ve got you covered. Explore the two ways you can subscribe or share your content today! |
| Featured & Recommend Content Configurations |
Executive Role
The Executive role was created to provide access to configuration options that allow users to flag content to be featured in different areas of the site. These options are only visible to the Executive role and higher. |
| Flagging Pages for Compliance |
Many pages across the website are required to be updated on certain dates, for accreditation, licenses, etc. The Office of Web & Digital Strategy has created a way for you to flag content that is required for compliance.
To do so, navigate to the page that is required for compliance and click Edit. |
| Font Awesome Icons |
See all the icons available on Font Awesome's website. You have a wide array of possibilities when it comes to customizing your icons too! |
| Full-Length Newsletter Article |
This feature allows users to create a single, full-length newsletter article that functions as a comprehensive piece of content. Users can subscribe to specific departments or categories and receive these newsletters as they are published. |
| Gutenberg Block Examples |
Headings Start at 2
Headings Should be in Chronological Order
Heading 4
This is a paragraph. |
| How to add a Department View |
Here is a screen recording on how to add a department view to a page.
Find the taxonomy ID number (TID) for: |
| How to add a PDF |
You can upload and add a PDF directly through the site editor. Click the black plus sign to add a new block, type file or scroll down to find the file block.
Click upload or select media library if the file has already been uploaded to the site. Select the file and click open. You will then be taken back to the editor where it will prompt you to enter the file description. |
| How to Create a News Article or Featured Profile |
Creating a News Article or Featured Profile
For general information on how to access the site and/or use the new site editor, please review the Creating Pages resource. The editor has the same layout options for a news article as it does for a page. The only difference is there are different configuration options available. |
| How to Create a Page |
Website Editor Training Video
More Settings
There are multiple configuration options that need to be set when creating a page.
Directly under the main editor window there is a ‘More Settings’ accordion menu. |
| How to Create a Resource |
To create a Resource, go to Manage > Content > Add content > Resource.
Add your Resource title and content within the editor.
Under 'More settings', add a summary, title caption, Resource type (if you don't see an applicable keyword, new keywords can be added as a comma separated list). |
| How to Create an Event |
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| How to Create or Edit a Policy |
The goal of the new policy website is to digitize and streamline the content and process as much as possible. All university-level and unit-level policies should be added as a Policy content type following the directions below.
Go to Manage Content > Add Content > Policy |
| How to Embed a Video |
Easily embed a video on the website by browsing or searching for the Youtube block, select it, copy the URL from the youtube video you want to include, and paste it into the youtube embed block and block embed.
To make the video full width, select the video block, click the advanced drop down, and add video-full (leave the other class names) to the field. |
| How to Process Unit Review |
Publishers can publish and review content and schedule a page or revision to be published on a future date. Publishers are responsible for reviewing all changes made by editors in their unit, working with editors to identify and resolve issues with accessibility, usability and site content, and publishing page updates once finalized and approved. |