Posts under the ‘Right Sidebar’ category

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.

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

You can add, modify, and remove links in the content area (body copy) or right sidebar on your web page:

• Add a CMS Link: link to another CMS web page or file (pdf, doc, etc)
• Add a External Link: link to a page outside the CMS
• Update/Modify a Link: update or modify a preexisting link
• Removal of a Link: remove a link from your page

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This post is aimed at making you aware that there are a number of ways that you can layout a web page within the CMS. Most of the time, you will be using Figure 1, 2, 3, or 4 as your layout. We will outline a number of different possibilities for you, though. Note that a layout will already be chosen for any web page already created in the CMS. If you are creating a new web page, you will be able to choose your own layout based on what components and slots you use. Below, you will find an image of a layout followed by a description. There are 12 layouts in total.

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You can add a number of items to the right sidebar. Highlights, images, buttons, and menus are a few options. We are going to concentrate on the most-used item, a Highlight. Highlights are used on a number of CMS websites to display additional information and/or related links. Here are a few sidebar examples:

Right Sidebar, list of links

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This post covers the different formats available to you when slotting items into the Right Sidebar. You have the following styling options:

• Boxed Right Sidebars
• Open (Unboxed) Sidebars
• Spotlights

Note that we have a separate post discussing how to slot items into the right sidebar. There are a number of different format options when slotting a Highlight into a sidebar. We will discuss the main ones: A boxed right sidebar with and without a title, an open right sidebar (box) with and without a title, and a right sidebar spotlight.

You can slot Highlights and Images into the right sidebar. There are two right sidebar slots available for you to use: Right Sidebar Slot – Boxed( 565) and Right Sidebar Slot – No box( 539). Open your Active Assembly Table Editor for a Generic and you’ll notice these two slots (with or without items slotted):

Empty right sidebar slots

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You are able to format the text in your right sidebar Highlights in a number of different styles. We have some suggestions to keep styles consistent across CMS sites and usable for users. Its important that your department’s website achieves consistency whether or not you follow our guidelines.

List of Links

If you would like to display a list of links, we recommend listing the links in an unordered list, hiding the bullets. You may remove indenting and bullets by using a CSS class of “none”. Your code would be similar to this:

<ul class="none">
<li><a href="cmslink">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="cmslink">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="cmslink">Link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="cmslink">Link 4</a></li>
</ul>

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