Maintaining Your Website

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Maintaining Your Website

• Using Cascade CMS

• Presented by UC Irvine Health Information
  Services and Marketing Communications

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Getting to Cascade

• http//cms2-app.content.uci.edu8080
• A good place to bookmark this link would be under
  SharePoint personal links

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The Menu Bar

• Cascade Logo pull down
• Most useful pull downs will be search and viewing
  active jobs

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Using Search

• search box in the upper right performs basic
  search of site contents
• If you have inherited the site and are not
  familiar with the site use the search feature to
  find pages or items such as word documents, PDFs
  and images.

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Viewing Active Jobs

• View the progress of pages, images, documents or
  the entire site
• Your publishing job will be listed under Current
  Jobs and its publishing progress will be in the
  done column

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Home

• Home tab will always bring you back to the
  default page

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New

• The New tab will allow you to add new
  pages/folders and files (images/PDFs/docs)

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Where is my website?

• SITEs pulldown vs. Health Affairs
• Your site will be in one of these locations, you
  will only have viewing/editing rights to sites
  you admin.
• Asset tree
• Folders
• Files
• Images and PDFs

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File naming best practice

• Dont use spaces or symbols
• Use dashes between words
• Use lowercase

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The Folder

• /_CMS/ folder
• Do not make any changes to items in this folder
• Power Users _CMS gt ContentBlocks gt left-nav
• Any change here requires the full site to be
  republished to reflect these updates on all
  pages!

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The Page

• Default content area, region/blocks and metadata

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Metadata

• What It Is
• Why It Matters
• Best Practices and Tips

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Page Tabs

• Edit, Move/Rename, Copy, Publish, More -gt Delete,
  More -gt Versions

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Edit
This is a standard editor with similar features
found in MS Word. More details about using this
editor can be found here http//www.healthaffairs
.uci.edu/training/wysiwyg-editor.asp
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Move/Rename

• Under System Name you can change the page name or
  move it to another location. To move the page to
  another location select Parent Folder and browse
  for new location

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Copy

• Copy page tab will allow you to duplicate a page.
  Change the copied page name and if needed select
  its new location under Parent Folder.

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Publish

• New users should always publish pages to the
  development server first. Preview the page and
  test all functions of that page.
• Only then should the page be published to the
  production server.
• Development URLs are usually http//dev.surgery.u
  ci.edu

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Features and Spotlights

• What Makes a Good Feature?
• What Makes a Good Spotlight?
• What to Use and When
• Help!

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News Events

• Consider Your Audience
• News and Event Posting Guidelines
• Staying on Top of the News

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Resources

• http//www.healthaffairs.uci.edu/training/
• http//www.oit.uci.edu/computing/wcg/cmsCE/
• http//cwo.ucsd.edu/cms/training/
• http//hannonhill.com/kb/

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Web Standards Guide

• Where Is It? www.healthaffairs.uci.edu/training/
• Photos Images
• Video Flash
• Metadata Page Titles
• Left-Hand Navigation
• Phone Numbers
• Styling Text Dos and Donts

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Digital Marketing Team

• We are here to help you!
• Daphne Tam, ddtam, x7601
• Kris Lindgren, klindgre, x7342
• Heather Shannon, heather.shannon, x7657
• Gil Acosta, gil.acosta, x8005
• Johnny Lam, lamv, x5085