TSC Technology Guide

Content Management System (CMS)

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Content Management System Web Address: http://cms.bgsu.edu
Content Management Test and Training System Web Address: http://cmstest.bgsu.edu

Site/Folder Publishing:

• Site/Folder Publishing (full documentation)
  • Introduction to Site/Folder Publishing
  • Finding What Folder Content Is In
  • Moving and Copying Content From One Folder to Another
  • Renaming Folders
  • A Known Bug

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
  • Content Explorer with Labels (pdf)
  • Content Explorer with Labels (jpg)
• Lesson #4: The Content Explorer
• Lesson #5: The Navigation Pane (left column)
• Lesson #6: The Display Pane (right column)
  • CMS Content Title Standards document
• Lesson #7: Creating a Personalized Search Engine

How to Create Different Content Types in CMS

• Lesson #8: Generic Home Page and Article Content Types
  • Sample Templates
• Lesson #9: Using the Ephox Editor
  • Lesson #9b: Inserting an Inline Link
  • Lesson #9c: Inserting a Hyperlink
  • Lesson #9d: Removing a Hyperlink
• Lesson #10: External URL Content Type
• Lesson #11: File Content Type
• Lesson #12: Image Content Type
  • Lesson #12a: Inserting an Image into the Body
• Lesson #13: Left Navigation Content Type
• Lesson #14: Multimedia Content Type
• Lesson #15: jQuery Slideshow Content Type
• Lesson #16: Using Slots when editing a Content Type
• Lesson #17: Editing Existing Published Content
• Lesson #18: Adding Bookmarks/Anchors to Your Content Using Ephox Editor

Known Issues with CMS:

• Ephox Editor Deleting Scripting Code (like iFrame) in the Body
• Macintosh Security Warning Issue
• Screen Display Scrambled While Using CMS

Other Helpful Documents and Pages:

• CMS Content Title Standards
• BGSU Mail Form Creation
• 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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