Authoring Content

An Overview of your Content Management System

Your Content Management System (CMS) provides plenty of flexibility when displaying your Web content. Whether you are using the CMS for a blog site, news or a Web site for a company, you'll find one or more content styles to showcase your information. You can also change the style of content dynamically depending on your preferences. The CMS calls how a page is laid out a layout. Use the guide below to understand which layouts are available and how you might use them.

Most of the areas dealt with on this page refer to the page configuration which, if you seriously contend to change, will require your "Administrators" authority and probably additional cost. They are explained here to familiarise you with the concepts of the page layouts.

Editing your content is dealt with extensively through the main links at left.

This CMS makes it extremely easy to add and display content. There are three main types of layouts available and all of them can be customised via parameters (contact your Administrator or Art@Work for further info). The display parameters are set through the Menu and used to display the content your working with, alongside other elements on the page.

Blog Layout

Blog layout will show a listing of all Articles of the selected blog type (Section or Category) in the mainbody position of your template. It will give you the standard title, and Intro of each Article in that particular Category and/or Section. You can customise this layout via the use of the Preferences and Parameters, (See Article Parameters) this is done from the Menu not the Section Manager!

Blog Archive Layout

A Blog Archive layout will give you a similar output of Articles as the normal Blog Display but will add, at the top, two drop down lists for month and year plus a search button to allow Users to search for all Archived Articles from a specific month and year.

List Layout

Table layout will simply give you a tabular list of all the titles in that particular Section or Category. No Intro text will be displayed just the titles. You can set how many titles will be displayed in this table by Parameters. The table layout will also provide a filter Section so that Users can reorder, filter, and set how many titles are listed on a single page (up to 50)