Basic Authoring

Agenda

1. Setting up your dashboard
2. Navigating the Pages interface
   1. Content Tree - structure & order driving navigation
   2. Understanding the buttons above tree structure
3. Navigating the Page Edit interface
   1. Demonstrate with the news template
4. Page Preview Function
5. Preparing for your authoring
   1. Have your copy, images, captions, alternative text, calls to action and links prepared
   2. Compressing and renaming your files
   3. Do not paste from word - have a plain text editor.
6. Uploading images or documents to the media library
7. Add and configure a news article from the template
   1. Understand the sections of the Content form
   2. Understand the sections of the page
   3. Add a rich text block
   4. Add an image to the page in rich text
   5. Float an image to the right in rich text
   6. Add a column layout
   7. Add an image widget to the left and rich text to the right
   8. Change colour of the header
8. Add and configure a new month from the template
9. Use the style guide
10. Add and configure an event
11. Checklist for Pirate Day for example.