Support for organisations.

Editing pages - Quickstart guide

In this guide:

Navigating to your page

To edit a page, click on Website Pages in your organisations admin area. Select the checkbox next to the page that you want to edit in the site tree, then click the Edit button.

Alternatively, when you are viewing a page you want to edit, click the shortcut Edit Page link in the 'Account' panel.

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Adding content

The WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is used to add all content to your pages. It has a familar word-processing-style interface to make editing your web pages as easy as possible.

Add text

To add content to your page, first make sure that the 'Use WYSIWYG editor' checkbox to the bottom left of the editor is checked. Then type your text in to the editor window.

Add images

To add an image to your page click the image button from the WYSIWYG toolbar -  . Click on the 'Browse and Upload' tab, and you will see thumbnails of all assets available to add to your page. 

To add an asset to this library, click 'browse' and select an image from your computer. Click 'upload', to transfer the image to the asset library.

This takes you to the image info tab, where you can customise the image by specifying the width, height, whitespace around the image and the alignment. When you are happy with the image in the preview window click 'OK' to add it to your page.

Your image is now in the asset library for the page you are editing. This means that if you want to add the same image to your page again, you can select it from the browse and upload tab directly.

Create links

In the editor window, select the text that you want to make into a link, then click the 'add link' button on the WYSIWYG toolbar - . Under 'URL', type in the address that you want to link to; e.g. www.ukmsl.com.

To create an email link, select the text that you want to be a link and click 'add link'. Under 'link type' select 'E-mail' and complete the form; e.g.

A note on HTML editing

An alternative way of adding content to your pages is to write the HTML by hand. We recommended you only use this method if you have a good knowledge of HTML. To edit content manually uncheck the 'Use WYSIWYG editor' checkbox - you can switch between the two views by checking / unchecking the box without losing any content.


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Styling content

You have complete control over the formatting of your content. You can use the standard word-processing style options justify, bold, italic and underline, as well as specific web-formatting commands.

Styling content

To add text in a specific style, simply select a formatting option and then enter your text. Alternatively, apply formatting to existing text by highlighting the text you want to style, and then select your formatting option (bold, italic, etc).

Adding headers

To add a header to your page, use the 'format' dropdown menu on the WYSIWYG toolbar - . Adding your headers in this way is good practice, and has the advantage that the text will automatically be styled in the pre-defined style for your website.

Removing styles

To remove formatting from text, highlight the text and then click the 'remove formatting' button -  .

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Previewing your page

You can preview your page at any time by selecting the 'preview' tab. This will show you what your page will look like once you publish it.

The preview is generally a very good indicator of what your final page will look like, but there may be some slight differences depending on how your site administrator has organised the website stylesheets.

You can return to editing your page after previewing by clicking on the 'content' tab.

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Saving and publishing your changes

Publishing your page

To publish your page, click the Save / Exit tab on the editor and select 'Publish'.

Saving your page

If you would like to save work-in-progress but are not yet ready to publish to live, click the Save / Exit tab and select 'Save'. This will create a saved draft of the page that you can continue editing at a later date.

Points to remember

Every time you publish or save, a 'version' of your page gets stored in the system. This means that if you've accidentally deleted content or made an error, at any time you call roll back to a previous version (see 'retrieving a previous version of your page in the FAQs').

Your page will autosave as you are editing, but you should always save your changes when you are finished, as you may lose some of your work if you navigate away from your page without saving.

For detailed information on the tools available in the WYSIWYG editor, see the WYSIWYG editor.

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Adding pages

To add a page go to the Organisation Admin area and click on Website Pages. 

Select the page you wish to create a page under (initially this will be your organisation's homepage) and click 'create child page'.

Points to remember

You can create as many pages as you like. The links to these pages will either appear automatically if your SU web administrator has set this up in your template or you will need to add them in manually. If you have any queries about the navigation of your pages please speak to your SU web administrator.

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