| Archived Web Content Exception Under ADA Title II |
Purpose
Content that has been published for historical, legal, or reference purposes could remain on the website, even if the content is not accessible. However, all criteria for archived web content exception must be followed for web content to be archived. |
| Best Practices for Web Writing |
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. |
| Check Your Site for Broken Links |
You can now check your Broken Links Report on SiteImprove!
To find the Broken Links Report on Siteimprove, make sure you are in one of your groups and are in the Quality Assurance dashboard: |
| Content Review Guidelines |
Use the checklist below to ensure your pages are correctly formatted before publishing. |
| CSS Class Cheatsheet |
.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 |
| Custom Block Examples |
Accordion Block
You can now insert an accordion into anywhere in your content! Simply find the block called "Accordion" and insert it into your content within the editor. From there, you'll title your accordion and then insert most any block you'd like in the accordion body. |
| Featured & Recommend Content Configurations |
Executive Role
The Executive role was created to provide access to configuration options that allow users to flag content to be featured in different areas of the site. These options are only visible to the Executive role and higher. |
| Flagging Pages for Compliance |
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. |
| Font Awesome Icons |
See all the icons available on Font Awesome's website. You have a wide array of possibilities when it comes to customizing your icons too! |
| Gutenberg Block Examples |
Headings Start at 2
Headings Should be in Chronological Order
Heading 4
This is a paragraph. |
| How to add a Department View |
Here is a screen recording on how to add a department view to a page.
Find the taxonomy ID number (TID) for: |
| How to add a PDF |
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. |
| How to Create a News Article or Featured Profile |
You must be a website editor in order to create content on the website. Please sign up for Website Access Training to gain access. |
| How to Create a Newsletter for Orbit |
This feature allows users to create a single, full-length newsletter article that functions as a comprehensive piece of content. Users can subscribe to specific departments or categories and receive these newsletters as they are published and/or they can view them on Orbit. |
| How to Create a Resource |
To create a Resource, go to Manage > Content > Add content > Resource.
Add your Resource title and content within the editor.
Under 'More settings', add a summary, title caption, Resource type (if you don't see an applicable keyword, new keywords can be added as a comma separated list). |
| How to Create an Event |
You must be a website editor in order to create content on the website. Please sign up for Website Access Training to gain access. |
| How to Create FAQs |
Frequently asked questions can be added to the site using the FAQ content type. Additionally there are options to import FAQs using the FAQ template. If you want the web team to import the FAQs fill out the template and submit a website project request to import. |
| How to Create or Edit a Page |
You must be a website editor in order to create content on the website. Please sign up for Website Access Training to gain access. |
| How to Create or Edit a Policy or Procedure |
Creating a Policy
The goal of the new policy website is to digitize and streamline the content and process as much as possible. All university-level and unit-level policies should be added as a Policy content type following the directions below.
Go to Manage Content > Add Content > Policy |
| How to Edit an Image for the Web |
UIS Staff has access to Photoshop with the Yearly Adobe Creative Cloud License from the Webstore. |