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Note: A Description of content must be brief and concise description of the page's content. No more than one or two sentences are recommended.
The Description of content is the information blurb which appears when the Web page is shared or searched.

  1. Select Draft from the Revision state field.

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  1. Select Save at the bottom of the page.

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titleMedia settings

Media settings can be accessed through the Media drop down.

A red box highlighting the media dropdown on the edit tab

Banner images are full-width images that appear on a site. If you add Banner images from the Edit tab, they will appear above the Web page title. If you want them to appear under the page title, use the Banner images block.

  1. In Media settings, under Type of media, select Banner image from the drop-down.

  2. Under Text overlay style, select a style from the drop-down.

    • Full banner width, bottom, theme colour background (“FDSU” style)

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    • Left side of banner, vertically centered, faded background, white text (for dark images)

      Left side of banner, vertically centered, faded background, white text (for dark images)Image Added

    • Left side of banner, vertically centered, faded background, black text (for light images)

      Left side of banner, vertically centered, faded background, black text (for light images)Image Added

    • Split top and bottom, black and white backgrounds (“single page” style)

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    • Full black overlay, centered text (“conference” style) Note: This style is not supported yet and provided only for future use.

  3. Under Media width, select a width for the banner from the drop-down.

  4. Under Use page title as big text, determine whether or not the page title will be the big text on the banner.

  5. In Banner, select Add Image banner.

  6. Under Image, select Add media, then select Browse. Select an image from your computer or an image previously added to your site. Enter the alternative text, if prompted, and select save. For guidance in writing appropriate alternative text, refer to the University of Waterloo Brand Formatting page.

  7. Select Insert selected.

  8. Optional: Add a Link. Begin typing the title of the published content on your site that you would like to link to, then select it from the drop-down function. You may also enter an internal path such as /blog or an external URL such as https://example.com/. This is where site viewers will be redirected if they select the Banner image.

  9. Optional: Add Big text and Small text to appear with the image. Small text appears below the large text.

  10. Optional: Add Faculty or Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo (AFIW) affiliation. Begin typing the name of the Faculty or AFIW and select it from the drop-down.

    • This will add an indication on the banner to show its affiliation with a Faculty or AFIW.

  11. To add additional banners, select the Add image banner button and repeat steps 6-10.

  12. In Banner settings, under Slide speed, enter the time, in milliseconds, that should elapse between slides when the slideshow is playing. Note: the default is 7000 ms.

  13. Under Transition speed, enter the time, in milliseconds, the banner transition should take to complete. Note: the default is 400 ms.

  14. Select Autoplay, if applicable. This controls whether or not the slideshow starts immediately when a page loads.

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titleMenu settings

The Menu settings drop down allows you to change whether Web page appears in the menu and how it appears:

The menu settings box in the edit tab of WCMS 3. Place in site hierarchy and Add menu link are both selected, enabaling addtional options

Checking Place in site hierarchy box enables you configure how your Web page appears in the menu.

  • Checking the Add menu link box will add your Web page to the main menu.

  • The Menu link title field allows you to edit the Web page title in the main menu.

Note: The title in the Menu link title field can be different from your Web page Title.

  • The Description field allows you to add a description that will show when hovering over the menu link.

  • The Parent link drop down allows you to choose where in the menu your page occurs.

Note: By default, the Parent link is set to Main navigation.

  • The Weight field allows you to choose the order that your menu items are displayed.

Note: Lower weights display before higher weights.

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titleScheduling options

Scheduling options allows you to select a date and time to change the Revision state of your Web page.

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Publish on allows you to select a date that the page will publish.

Publish/unpublished states

Unpublish on allows you to select a date and time for that the page state to be changed to Published/Unpublishedwill unpublish.

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titleURL redirects

URL redirects allows you to add a URL redirect to your Web page.

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titleURL alias

The Web page automatically generates a URL based on the page Title and its place in the site hierarchy. It is best practice to select Generate automatic URL alias for uniformity across your site. To create a custom alias:

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  1. Unselect the Generate automatic URL alias box.

  2. Manually enter a new URL alias.

Note: Do not add a trailing backslash (/) to the alias. Replace any spaces with a dash (-). When entering a custom URL make sure it is still reflective of the content that it will be displaying.

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titleAuthoring information

Authoring information allows you to change the author information for the Web page. Authoring information defaults to the user who created the page and when the page was created originally.

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  • Filling out the Authored by field allows you to select a user to be displayed as the page author.

  • The Authored on allows you to manually sets the date and time the page was created.

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titlePromotion options

Promotion options allows you to edit how the Web page is promoted.

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  • Promoted to front page allows your page to be promoted to the front page.

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titlePage display options

Page display options allow you to optionally turn off site menus and titles for your Web page.

The page display options box in the edit tab of WCMS 3, showing the dropdown options for the navigation elements dropdown menu

Note: this This option should not be used for accessibility reasons.

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titleSimple XML sitemap (ask charlotte)

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titleRevision log

The Revision log message is an option to comment on the update and changes to the Web page. This message will appear in the entry when viewing the Revisions tab of the Web page.

The revision log box in the edit tab of WCMS 3

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