Editing Guides

A simple page such as about us can be edited by logging in, navigating to the page and pressing the edit button.

Some simple guidelines for writing for the web. 

Goal. Replace or resize an image. 

CKFinder is provided by default on MountainRiver CMS sites, although there is a Drupal media manager that may be requested or speciifc page locations may have a 'file upload button' within the form to simplify site standardisation and generation of multiple instances of the same image.

1. Edit the page, or block. It doesn't matter where if you just want to replace an image, as CKFinder is accessible from any text editor block. To add an image you need to run the text editor in the location where you want to add the image. 

Adding video to your site is simple. There are 2 options: 

• Use a video service as YouTube or Vimeo.
• Upload video yourself. 

Using a video service has many benefits. You become part of the services index and this could help increase the visibility of your site or brand and you can take advantage of their hosting infrastructure. The main issues people have are of copyright - typically you had over rights to the production - and limited 'call to action possibilities' using another organsation's website. 

In short, I often find myself creating custom summaries as all sorts of introductory text may not introduce the article properly or have formatting that is not appropriate.

If you have a premium site with MountainRiver CMS you may have received the streamlined editi collection process. Like edting a single page, access to the editing processes is available through the 'front-end' fo the website using buttons that are visible when logged in with editing permissions  - the in-situ editing model. 

To add a new item to the collection, visit an index that displays the contents of the collection. If it is News you may see a set of buttons at the top:

Select 'Create Classified Ad'

Page and Info box allows info boxes to be added at author specified locations throughout the page. The author writes the first block of text, then using the Info Box form element fill out the info box. The article can be continued by adding more paragraphs after the Info Box.

The Finished Page

The finished page will have an Info Box as illustrated. 

The shop, how we set it up has shop pages and product pages. This allows for differnet colours of t-shirts to be displayed as an exmaple. 

Details that appear on the shop page can, confusingly, come from either the shop page or the first product page. The assumption is that for flexibility it comes from the first product page. 

To edit the content therefore: