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.
Department URL
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.
To create a news article or featured profile hover over Manage > Content > Add Content > and click on Article.
Headings Start at 2
Headings Should be in Chronological Order
Heading 4
This is a paragraph.
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New Website Notifications for Compliance and Policy Pages
In a major step forward for maintaining compliance and policy pages to enhance site management, new functionality has been developed to keep pages on the website up-to-date and aligned with organizational standards. This innovative update introduces new custom compliance and policy notification modules, designed to monitor and prompt updates.
Key Features of the Compliance Notifications
The newly developed module brings several valuable features to the website:
The website has been developed to send multiple types of notifications:
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.
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.
Here is a screen recording on how to add a department view to a page.
Find the taxonomy ID number (TID) for:
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.
* For accessibility your filename should match the title of your document.
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.visually-hidden - hides visually but still accessible by screen readers
.video-full - makes video full-width and responsive
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