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Build it

How to build and maintain a website in the University's content management system.
  • Basic Plone skills
  • Further plone skills

Basic Plone Skills

  • Log in and out
  • Add a page
  • Add and format text
    • Reload the page
    • Styling your pages
  • Add a folder
  • Edit pages and folders
  • Images
    • Using imagery
  • Add a file
  • Add links on a page
  • Tables
  • Previous page versions
  • Publishing
    • Exclude items from the navigation
    • Set the default page view for a folder (setting homepages)
    • Short and long names
    • Reorder content

Further Plone skills

  • Set permissions (sharing)
    • Locked page
  • Using portlets
  • Uploading multiple files
  • Using collection folders
  • SEO - Optimising your pages for Search Engines
  • Cut, copy and paste content items
  • Image Slideshows
  • Creating a Blog
  • Creating an RSS feed from Plone content (Syndication)
  • Creating forms and surveys
  • Using video in your website
  • Adding a podcast
  • Adding links in a folder
  • Linking to Job Vacancies on HR iGrasp system
  • How to add alpha and beta characters
  • Sub-divide folders to improve performance for website editors

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