Are you writing content for a University of Illinois Springfield website? Use the following guidelines, tips, and suggestions to create effective content, engage and inform your audiences, and improve your overall website performance.

Creating a News Article or Featured Profile

For general information on how to access the site and/or use the new site editor, please review the Creating Pages resource. The editor has the same layout options for a news article as it does for a page. The only difference is there are  different configuration options available.

To create a news article or featured profile hover over Manage > Content > Add Content > and click on Article.

Headings Start at 2

Headings Should be in Chronological Order

Heading 4

This is a paragraph.

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The website has been developed to send multiple types of notifications:

Many pages across the website are required to be updated on certain dates, for accreditation, licenses, etc. The Office of Web & Digital Strategy has created a way for you to flag content that is required for compliance.

To do so, navigate to the page that is required for compliance and click Edit.

How to Create a New Page

1. Click on Manage in the black toolbar at the top of the screen
2. Hover over Content in the white toolbar right below the black one
3. Hover or click on Add Content to see the types of content you can create
4. Select Page

How to Edit an Existing Page

1. Be logged in to the site
2. Go to the URL of the page you're wanting to edit
3. Scroll down until you get just past the header image at the top of

Here is a screen recording on how to add a department view to a page. 

Find the taxonomy ID number (TID) for:

• department news articles and events. 
• department directory

You can upload and add a PDF directly through the site editor. Click the black plus sign to add a new block, type file or scroll down to find the file block.

Click upload or select media library if the file has already been uploaded to the site. Select the file and click open. You will then be taken back to the editor where it will prompt you to enter the file description.

**For accessibility your filename should match the title of your document.

.narrow

.wide

.padding-top

.padding-bottom

.padding

.no-padding

.no-margins

.no-border - for links you dont want the underline add a class under advanced for the link block

.hide - hides element by adding display:none;

.visually-hidden - hides visually but still accessible by screen readers

.video-full - makes video full-width and responsive

.col2

.col3

.grid3

.grid4

.grid5

.grow

.card

.center

.intro-txt

.para-indent

.btn

.bg-gray