Website maintenance made easy

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Using the Website Content Manager

• Website maintenance made easy
• Sam Elmer

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What is the Website Content Manager?

• The Website Content Manager, (WCM) is a wonderful
  new method of creating and updating web pages
  without all that tedious mucking about in HTML.
• Whilst users must be IT literate, no knowledge of
  mark-up, style-sheets, FTP or any other
  specialist software is required.

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Your Pages

• Some pages are available for you to create within
  the limitations of WCM. Pages must match the
  Standard Sussex
• Web Team may still maintain many of your pages
• Web Team maintain image libraries

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New facility - People

• People was trialled in 2007 and is now used by
  many areas of the University
• It provides
• Key contacts
• Automatic A-Z list
• Intro Text
• Staff by Role
• Please discuss the use of this facility with the
  Main Editor of your site as Intro Text and Staff
  by Role will require maintenance.

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Things to remember

• The system currently works best with Internet
  Explorer 5.1 (IE) or above running on a Windows
  PC. However, it is usable on other systems, for
  example Firefox 1.0 on Mac OS X
• For the Preview function to work, you should
  disable page caching in your browser (to do this
  in in IE5. for Windows select Tools gt Internet
  options... from the menus. Under the section
  Temporary Internet files click Settings... and
  check the Every visit to the page option. Click
  OK to finish)
• Try to avoid using your browsers back button if
  possible

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Logging in

• Once registered with the WCM you should go to the
  web page
• http//www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/wcm/departments
• Bookmark this page. Then click Login and enter
  your IT Services username and password. You are
  now ready to begin editing
• Note the Guidelines for web editors

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What Next

• WCM Workshop
• News Events