Posts under the ‘CMS’ category

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.

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. (more…)

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

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Grouping Your Courses By Department

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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.

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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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:

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

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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.

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.

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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

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

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

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