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Adagio4. Web Content Management EP Information Offices. Overview Introduction to CMS Your website Your tool: Adagio4 Practical exercices. Basic notions for contributors Content management U s efull tools for intermediates S tructure management Advanced tools for administrators
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Adagio4 Web Content Management EP Information Offices
Overview • Introduction to CMS • Your website • Your tool: Adagio4 • Practical exercices
Basic notions for contributors Content management • Usefull tools for intermediates Structure management • Advanced tools for administrators Global management
CMS • Computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content. • Content = any type of digital information : text, images, graphics, video… • Slits form/content content mgt operation accessible to anyone. ADAGIO4 – Web CMS Adagio4 is a web CMS, designed to simplify the publication of web content to EP info offices Websites. Adagio4 support the followingfeatures: • Separation of content's semantic layer from its layout • Ability to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of html or the uploading of files. • Collaborative creation w/ ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different users (For ex, a content creator submits content, which is published only after the admin revises it and the super admin approves it.) • Ability to use content for other purposes (ex: newsletters, intranet) • Simplified / full editing interface in Fr and En Introduction to Adagio4
Management • Adagio4 team • Super administrator • Administrators / contributors • Users • Field of intervention • Structure – navigation {admin} • Content {contributor} • Images • Mailing The website
Tool used to perform editing functions tothe content in the CMS • Accessible by typing the website address followed by “/edit ” (Exemple: http://test.adagio4.eu/edit) Adagio4 – The editing interface
The URL of your website is composed of 4 parts: http://test.adagio4.eu/view/fr/contact.html • In red: the “host”, i.e. the website address. • In blue: the "mode". You can reach your website either in “View” mode (accessible to everyone), in “Edit” mode (to modify its content), or in “Preview” mode (to get a preview before publishing it). • In green: the language in which the website will be posted. • In purple: the location of the current page. This location is realized through a path. The pages are displayed in a tree-structure. A uniformresourcelocatoridentifies the location of a website on the internet Adagio4 - URL
Content • Website composed of several pages tree-like navigation menu Concept of parent page / children pages • Boxes : used to manage these pages + structure • A webpage = a set of components choice of components • Editing zone to structure the page by adding components • Toolbar: tools used to save, preview, publish the website Used by contributors to: create pages + manage their content Tabulations
Active page = boldfaced • To move a page in the structure: • use green arrows (up / down / move down, under its brother / move up, under its parent’s parent) Used to select a page in the navigation. Menu
SAVE : to upload your modifications. • PREVIEW : to preview content before publishing it. • PUBLISH : to publish content on the Web. • Choice of LANGUAGE: select the language before inserting the content. • MAILING: tool used to send a newsletter to users. Toolbar
Menu edition • "Delete page“ : to delete a page selected in the menu + its content + its children. • "Add first" : to create a new page inserted as 'child" of the selected page / located on top. • “Add last" : to create a new page located after all other pages. This dialog box is used to modify the menu structure by adding/deleting pages. Boxes
Each page is made of components (titles, paragraphs, images…). You may assemble these components in the content editing zone. • Insert components: • Choose a component in the list • Click on "insert" in the content editing zone • Type your text in the grey zone • Click on “Save“ • Erasing components: Content editing
Each page is a set of components Types of components: • Title components Title: to edit the page title which appears in the Menu. (= page label) Subtitle: 9 different levels with own size / character style. • Textual components Paragraph: block of text Date: displays the date Description: describes the page and is used for the web search engines. Main components
Links External link: to insert links towards other websites. Reversed link option : link automatically created if name appears in the website Internal link: to set links towards other pages in the website. Link to file: used to upload a file on the website Links to pages: used to display links towards other pages. • Graphic components Image: free image : to upload an image as it is (no size modification fit screen) standard image : to upload an image whose size will be automatically adapted to fit a width defined in the template . Components
Enter in Edit mode (ex: http://test.adagio4.eu/edit) • Fill in a valid login and password • You find yourself in the Editing interface • In the Menu: select ‘root’ or the 'parent page' that will contain the new 'child page'. • In the "Add" field (in "Menu editor" box): introduce the name of the new page. This name can only contain numbers, letters and the "_" character (Ex: news_2). • Click on "Ok". The new page is created, it appears in the menu under the selected parent page. • Select the page and start structuring it by selecting components from the "choice of component to insert" box. • Insert your text in these components. • Regularly click on "Save“. • Click on the Preview button to have an overview of the result. • Once you're ready to publish the website, press the Publish button. Create a page STEP BY STEP
Select the page by clicking on its name in the menu. • In the "menu edition" box, click on "OK" at the right side of the "delete page" button. The program requires a confirmation before erasing the page. Notice: This "erase a page" action erases the selected page as well as its children. Erase a page STEP BY STEP