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Publishing Schedule

Posted by Alex Hughes under CMS, CMS Announcements

CMS webpages and files automatically publish on a set schedule. You will have to wait for the CMS to publish your modified files before they become live on the web. Only files in the Public state will be published. Our publish schedule is:

  • 12:00 midnight
  • 12:00 noon
  • 4:00 p.m.
  • 9:00 p.m.

Unsure if your page published? Check the last-modified date of your webpage by viewing the page source (right-click -> View Page Source) and finding:

<meta http-equiv="Last-Modified" content="2013-02-08T15:00-0500" />

NOTE: In addition to viewing the source of the page, you may view the “Page Info” in some browsers.

Full Publishes

Full publishes (entire site) of all of the CMS websites will be run every Saturday. They are staggered depending on the site, and should be completed by 8 a.m.

Need an immediate publish? Please email cmshelp@mtu.edu. Due to strain on the system, we can only run full publishes during off peak hours (after 5pm).

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

CMS Upgrade on Tuesday April 30th

Posted by Alex Hughes under CMS

Update 4/30 9:27 a.m.: Upgrade is complete and the system is up and running. If you experience any issues please contact cmshelp@mtu.edu, or call (906) 487-2431.

The Rhythmyx Content Management system will be unavailable until 10 a.m. on April 30th. The system will be undergoing an upgrade and you will not be able to update your content until after 10 a.m. Your website will be unaffected and remain up during the outage and any content inside of the CMS will be available for editing once the system is brought back online. If you have any questions please contact cmshelp@mtu.edu, or call (906) 487-2431.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Sortable Tables

Posted by Scott Shannon under Tables

Many times you may want to allow a user to sort a table of data. If you have a long table of information, it can be difficult to find the information you’re looking for. A sortable table will make it much easier for a user to get the information they need, fast. And we’ve made it easy to do!

To do a simple sortable table just give the table a class of table-sortable. You must also place the column headings into the <thead> of the table. read more »

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Creating Customized Course Listings Pages

Posted by Joel Vertin under CMS, Video tutorials

The following two video tutorials will help you to learn how to create customized course listing webpages to add to your CMS website. These customized course listing pages are meant to be used when you only need to list a limited/specific number of courses from either one department or many departments.

You can also created automated course listing webpages that pull all undergraduate and/or graduate courses from one/many departments. The tutorial below shows you what to do when you only need to pull certain/specific courses. For more information about how to create automated course listing webpages, please email the UMC web team at <cmshelp@mtu.edu>.

Adding Ungrouped Courses to a Page

http://www.mtu.edu/video/2013/courses-list.f4v

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Please note: This video is best viewed in full screen mode. Click the Full Screen button in the bottom right corner to access full screen mode.

Grouping Your Courses By Department

http://www.mtu.edu/video/2013/courses-groups.f4v

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Please note: This video is best viewed in full screen mode. Click the Full Screen button in the bottom right corner to access full screen mode.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Generic (Page) Styling & Coding Clean Up

Posted by Joel Vertin under CMS Announcements, Right Sidebar, Styles, Text

Have you created a new Generic (Page) and can’t get the styling just right? Does the right sidebar look funny? Aren’t sure when and where to use headings or bulleted lists? The UMC web team can help “clean up” your web page so that the look and styling more closely matches today’s web standards.

Send us an email at <cmshelp@mtu.edu> with the URL of your web page (a live page or a CMS preview link) and let us know that you’d like a “style and coding clean up”. We will take a few minutes to clean up your web page and have it looking great.

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Monday, January 21, 2013

Meta Data: Keywords and Descriptions

Posted by Joel Vertin under CMS Announcements

Your existing CMS webpages will often have the meta data (keywords and descriptions) already filled out. If your meta data fields are blank or if you’re creating a new webpage, then it is important to fill these fields out.

When creating new webpages, it is important to properly fill out the keywords and description fields (meta data) in your Generic (Page). In the keywords field, enter 6-8 phrases that are comma separated. A keyword phrase is a 1-4 word phrase that describes your webpage. These are typically phrases that web users will type into a search engine, in order to find our webpage.

As an example, let us say that you have a webpage about the campus job fair. Your keyword phrases may be:

houghton job fair, michigan tech job fair, job fair, houghton career fair, michigan tech career fair, career fair

It is important to fill out keywords that relate to your webpage to help search engines like Google and Yahoo rank your webpage higher in their search rankings.

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Using the Image Editor

Posted by Joel Vertin under CMS, Images

The image editor is a powerful tool within the CMS. We use it to create and edit images of specific sizes.  Please scroll to the bottom of this post to see common Image Editor errors. Here is a listing of the available Image Editor images and their corresponding sizes:

Image Name Image Size
Small Thumb (thumbnail) 95 x 95
Medium Thumb (thumbnail) 112 x 112
Large Thumb (thumbnail) 170 x 170
Personnel (faculty/staff portrait) 130 x 175
Full Size Vertical (photo slideshows) * x 500
Full Size Horizontal (photo slideshows) 700 x *
Single Column (column width) 333 x *
Horizontal (sub-banner) 465 x *
Sidebar (right sidebar) 213 x *

Note: Sizes are displayed as width x height. An asterisk (*) indicates that the size is variable.

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Please Attribute Sources to Migrated Content in Blogs

Posted by Joel Vertin under Announcements, CMS Announcements

Attention web liaisons: if you copy existing content into your department’s blog from a web page or another source, please ensure that you have given credit to the author(s) by adding a byline. This policy applies to content that is authored by any member of the campus community, including individuals within your department, not only content that originates outside of the University. Plagiarism charges may be filed if credit is not given where it is due.

Thank you.

- UMC Web Team

Note: This was originally posted on October 4th, 2012.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

CMS Outage 12/18

Posted by Alex Hughes under CMS, CMS Announcements

UPDATE: 9:42 am 12/18/12

The upgrade has been completed and the system should be up and running. Contact cmshelp@mtu.edu if you notice any issues.

–Original–

There will be an outage for the CMS on Tuesday December 18th from 6am until 10am. The system will be unavailable during this time as we are perform a system upgrade. All of your existing pages will be available and your websites should experience no downtime. If you have any questions please contact cmshelp@mtu.edu.

Any updates about the outage will be posted here.

- UMC Web Team

Friday, December 7, 2012

Creating New Pages and Sidebars

Posted by Joel Vertin under CMS, Right Sidebar

The following video tutorial will help you to learn how to add new pages to your CMS website and sidebars to your various pages:

http://www.mtu.edu/video/2012/generic-sidebar.f4v

Press play to load and play this tutorial

Please note: This video is best viewed in full screen mode. Click the Full Screen button in the bottom right corner to access full screen mode.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Adding Syllabus Links to Departmental Course Listing (Chemistry)

Posted by Joel Vertin under Chemistry, Video tutorials

The following video tutorial will help you to learn how to add syllabus links to the “Departmental Courses” web page on the Chemistry website:

http://www.mtu.edu/video/2012/course-finder.f4v

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Please note: This video is best viewed in full screen mode. Click the Full Screen button in the bottom right corner to access full screen mode.

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