TSC Technology Guide
Content Management System (CMS)
Content Management System Web Address: http://cms.bgsu.edu
Content Management Test and Training System Web Address: http://cmstest.bgsu.edu
Getting Started with CMS:
- Lesson #1: What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
- Lesson #2: CMS Terminology
- CMS Status Flow Chart(pdf)
- CMS Status Flow Chart (jpg)
- Lesson #3: How to log in to the CMS System at BGSU
- Lesson #4: The Content Explorer
- Lesson #5: The Navigation Pane (left column)
- Lesson #6: The Display Pane (right column)
- Lesson #7: Creating a Personalized Search Engine
How to Create Different Content Types in CMS
- Lesson #8: Generic Home Page and Article Content Types
- Lesson #9: Using the Ephox Editor
- Lesson #10: External URL Content Type
- Lesson #11: File Content Type
- Lesson #12: Image Content Type
- Lesson #13: Left Navigation Content Type
- Lesson #14: Multimedia Content Type
- Lesson #15: Using Slots when editing a Content Type
Other Helpful Documents and Pages:
- CMS Content Title Standards
- Templates and Color Palette for New BGSU Design
- BGSU Graphic Standards Manual
- Steps to moving your web site into CMS
- CMS Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I enable pop-ups for the CMS servers? ( PC) ( Mac)
- How can I create a copy of an existing content item that I can modify into a new content item on the CMS?
- What is a promotable version and how do you create one in the CMS?
- What are the features available in the Ephox rich text editor EditLive used to edit content in the CMS?
Other Resources ...
Useful Web Design Guides
Style Guide to Good Website Design
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Section 508 Web Accessibility Checklist
Xenu's Link Sleuth
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Recommended Tutorials
Cascading Style Sheets
JavaScript
HTML
XML
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