Also in this sectionIt is important to use properly structured HTML headings when organizing your web content. Think of webpage headings as a table of contents for a story.
Headings are not required on webpages. However, they help break up and organize lengthy informational webpages—improving readability. Proper heading use is not only important for accessibility, it also has search engine optimization benefits, which can help your webpages rank higher in Google’s search results.
The Alumni Profile item is used to create individual people that can appear on the Alumni Profiles page or in department Academies.
There are three button colors that can be used in the CMS. They can easily be created when you set up your link or you can use the List Spread Buttons snippet to created multiple buttons in a row.
Data tables present tabular information in a grid. They are made up of columns and rows that communicate the meaning of the information. There are several options for styling your data in tables to allow for a clean, visually appealing look.
The use of HTML tables is reserved for displaying data in an organized manner. It is not proper to use table code to control webpage layout or design. To display content on your webpage in multiple columns, please refer to the Boxed Sections Snippets or the List Spread Buttons Snippet. Continue reading
This snippet will create a grid of thumbnail images that pop up into a scrollable gallery when a thumbnail is selected. The large image in the gallery will display the caption.
The Approval Workflow in OU Campus is an optional function that a department can use when creating or editing content that needs approval from someone else before being published. This process allows the item to remain checked out to a user throughout the process until it has been completed—either published or reverted back to the previous version. Keeping content checked out is important so that the item is not published unintentionally before it should be.
This snippet create an About the Researcher or About the Author styled sidebar and is used primarily in the News and Unscripted websites. It must be created int he Content field of a Sidebar Right Box snippet. The title in the dark gray section at the top comes from the Sidebar Right Box snippet.
Departments who produce regular newsletters or magazines are able to use the Michigan Tech Magazine template to digitally display their publications on their departmental website. You can refer to the Biological Sciences Newsletters as an example. Interested departments should contact cmshelp@mtu.edu to get setup. Once your site has been set up and your CMS users given access, you can follow these instructions to add future publications. Continue reading
This snippet allows you to create a link or button on the page that opens a pop-up window displaying text. The pop-up can include headings, links, and images.
This snippet will create an image with text beneath it surrounded by a light gray box. The image can be left or right aligned so body content wraps around it if it is not the full content area width or center or left aligned with no wrapping. If you have cropped an 800 Banner or 1024 Feature size of the image being displayed, the system will automatically include a pop-up of the image and caption.
