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CMS Manual

Your PSUL Website

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A PSUL Website

Your PSUL Website will have editable content as well as content which you should not edit.  To take a look at your Website, do the following:

  1. In the CQ5 GUI, expand select Websites and expand the Websites folder.
  2. Expand the University Libraries Home folder.
  3. You will be working in as many as three locations for your Website:
    • Secure/Forms: If you use forms, your forms will exist in a subfolder of this location.
    • Course Guides and/or Research Guides: If you are responsible for research guides or course guides, your guides will exist in a subfolder of these locations.
    • Your Website: The content of your site will exist here.
  4. Find your Website and expand it.  Look at the folders, there are some important pages to note:
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Staff Directory

Screen shot with a PSUL window open and red text stating to make sure that you have a staff directory link or page
Do not delete your staff directory link or staff directory page.

This page is automatically created for you. Do not delete your staff directory page.  If there is an error with your staff directory page, you will need to make the correction in LDAP or contact Libraries Human Resources.

Note: You must have staff directory link on you home page in the left navigation under "Contact".  When you edit the home page of your Website, do not delete the link to the staff directory.

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Localized Pages (Campuses Only)

Screen shot of Localized Pages on a Campus Website
Localized Pages on a Campus Website

The new CMS now has the ability to display specific campus information according to the user’s location or by choosing a campus location.  Campus sites have the option to provide information local to the campus by including the following pages:

Note: Your migration assistant will work with you on how to edit these campus-specific features of your site.

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About (about.html)

This is a required page. This page contains most of the links that were on the CQ4 Campus Library Home page. Note that a lot of the links may reference pages that are in the Information and Services folder. We suggest using a navigation template for this page so that the left navigation is inherited down to any pages that will reside within the about folder. Campus libraries with a large number of links may consider using an open template, but be aware that pages kept within this folder will not inherited left navigation information or title information.

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Hours (hours.html)

This is a required page.  This page contains the same library hours information that was on the CQ4 Campus Library Home page.

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Departments (depts.html)

Suggested content  - Most campus libraries do not have individual department pages. You can place all of your department phone numbers and contacts here if you wish or create your department pages within this folder.  If you do not create this page, then the CQ5 will automatically display the University Park departments page (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/depts.html)

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News and Events (news.html)

Suggested content - This should contain all of the library news, twitter, facebook or any other social media widgets. Links to your library calendar as well as the campus calendar.  If you do not have a news.html page, then the CMS will automatically reference the University Park news and events (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/news.html) page.

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Community (community.html)

This is a new page that will contain links such as Information for undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty & staff, visitor info, alumni info, off campus info, disability etc. This is basically the same type of information that was listed under the CQ4 "Information and Services" link on the right navigation bar of CQ4. If you do not have a community.html page, then the CMS will automatically reference the University Park community (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/community.html) page.

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Information and Services (infosvcs.html)

The page itself does not usually have content, but will have pages within the folder. This page is not required and only needs to exist if you have a number of pages that fall under the information and services category. This page will redirect to either the "Community" page or the "About" page.

The following examples of campus pages seem to logically fall under this category:

  • Undergrad
  • Graduate
  • Faculty/Staff
  • Visitors
  • Disability Services
  • Visit
  • FAQ

A lot of pages under this folder that used to reside immediately below the CQ4 landing page not reside here. This page is a navigation page and has the ability to inherit left navigation information down to pages that reside under this folder. This is an important feature as the new landing page no longer has the left navigation bar. If you create 30 pages immediately below the landing page you will have to enter the left navigation links 30 times as well as enter your campus library name 30 times.

In order to keep the information in one place, original links and contact information for the campus library site have been placed in your Staff directory (staffdirectory.html). You only need to change and publish the information in the left navigation staff directory.  Then, use the reference component and reference the information from the staff directory when entering information for the left navigation of the new page.

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