Web Team: Contribute Resource Guide

Setting Up Your Basic Page

The first steps in editing your site, as well as any new pages, should involve a certain amount of house keeping. Otherwise, you could forget about updating information like links and emails, and it will be harder to distinguish the page you're working on from other drafts later.

Follow this routine for consistency and accuracy:

• Changing your title
• Find and replace
• Updating e-mail

• First, change your page title. Browse to the page you want to edit and click Edit Page


• Look in the toolbar for the wrench and paper button, called Page Properties and click there


• Change the generic county name to the name of your organization


• Your title will appear at the top of Web browsers when users access your site


Note:

For your starter pages, these page descriptions will work well, but when you begin adding pages, you'll want to make sure that you have the name of your organization, then some information that distinguishes the page from the others. This will be helpful, because you may need to select the name of the page from a list of other pages later, especially when you are making links

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• Next you'll want to replace all instances of the generic organization name with the name of your organization using the Find and Replace function


• Click the Edit button in the Contribute toolbar


• Go to Edit, then click Find in the menu bar


• In the Find box, type the generic text (ex. "sample county" or "sample department"); in the Replace field, type the name of your organization (ex. "Gwinett County" or "Food Science & Technology")


• Click Replace All and look through your page to see the changes

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• Move to the footer of the page to change the e-mail address. You'll have to change this e-mail address on each page, just as you would with the title and generic text


• See the Creating Links section for more information on e-mail


• Additionally, be sure to link to new pages or users won't be able to access the new page

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