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Adding a content page to your website... Most of your work within the Aliquant website content management administration section will be adding, editing and deleting site content. This administration can be a little confusing at first so you should take a little time to be sure you understand how it works. First... a little description of how Aliquant's website content management section works.
As an example, we will assume that you need to manage a content section for "Agents".... This content section will have a single page of contact information and bio for each sales agent you have in your business. In this example you would create a new web site section called "Agents" with a short paragraph about the professionalism of all of your agents. You also need a page for each agent. After creating the content section you would then create a "Category"... each category being the name of one of your agents... David White, Jim Brown and Bill Green. You would then create a bio page (Edit Content / Add New Site Content) for each agent and apply each to the appropriate Section Category (David White, Jim Brown and Bill Green). When a user clicks on the section link, Agents, the navigation bar will also show the category links. It would look something like this.
The user would be taken to the bio page when they clicked the agents name. So, you ask, why go through the trouble of adding categories and then applying a content page to each category. Good question... In some cases you may have DOZENS of pages within a particular site section. If you create a new subsection link for every page the navigation bar could get to be VERY LONG. For example, what if you had five different offices with 10 different agents in each office...
In this case, instead of creating DOZENS of categories you may only create two or three and add MULTIPLE website content pages to each category.
When a user clicks the category (subsection) link they will be given a page with all of the content pages (agents names) listed on that page with links to each. Adding a new Section... From the administration section choose Site Content Management / Site Content Sections / Add New Site Content Section. The new site section page opens.
When you finish adding your information click the Save Changes button to save the new section. Adding Categories: In some cases you will not need additional pages for a section. If that is the case you don't have to enter any categories or content pages. You can move on to the next section. If you need to add additional pages in the section you MUST add the appropriate categories first. From the site section management page choose Edit Categories for the section where you want to add content pages.
This administration page will allow you to add as many categories as you need. The text you enter in the text field will be used as a link in the navigation bar to the information. To add a new category, enter the text you want to use as a link in the text field to the left of the Add Category button. Then click the Add Category button. You will be returned to the same page with the new category above the add category line. To edit a category, simply change the text in the field and click the Save Changes button to the right. Please note that you can only edit one category at a time. If you need to change more than one category, make your changes to the first and click the Save Changes button for that category and then continue to the next change. The Delete button IMMEDIATELY DELETES THE CATEGORY. YOU WILL NOT BE ASKED TO CONFIRM THE DELETION. If you delete a category that a content page is assigned to, that page will NOT be shown in the navigation bar until you assign it to a valid category. Adding Content Pages: After adding your categories you can proceed to adding additional content pages to the section. From the Site Content Sections list choose Edit Content for the section where you are adding the page. This will show you a list of all content pages for this section.
To add a new content page click the Add New Site Content link. This will bring up the content edit page.
When you finish adding your information click the Save Changes button to save the new section. Adding a Section Link: There are times when you need a link to information that is on another web site. Aliquant gives you the ability to add these links to any Content Section. From the administration section choose Site Content Management / Site Content Sections.
To add a new section link, use the Add New Section Site Links section to enter your information.
After saving, the new link will show at the top of the page. To add another link use the Add New Section Site Link area. To edit an existing link, make your changes and click the Save Changes button under the information. To delete a link, click the Delete button under the link. Please NOTE: The program will DELETE THE LINK IMMEDIATELY. You will not be asked to confirm the deletion. When you choose the Delete Section option from the Section List the program will delete all Categories, Links and Content pages. You will be asked to confirm the deletion.
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