By Mike Harries
July 20, 2017 Category: Learning, Content

Here is a text area where we want to add a YouTube or vimeoVideo to Log-in to the back-end of your website Navigate to the page you would like to embed a Youtube or Vimeo video to. (Via Site Pages in the top toolbar or through your navigation) Click Editor from the top of your black toolbar Click the content area in which you would like to add the YouTube video to. After clicking into the content region youd like to embed a video to, click Source from the toolbar (it will show you the HTML version of your content) Edit Source Mode Once youre in the Source, youll see your content formatted as HTML -- Find where within your content youd like your video to embed, and Paste the EXACT embed code from youtube. It is extremely important to get the full and exact code. Missing just one character will break your site. Inspect the link to YouTube. You need to add some text here. Just after the starting quotes, add the text http: This will change your code to be similar to the

By Mike Harries
October 29, 2013 Category: Learning, Search Engine Optimization

In Virteom you can simply set each page to be a certain rank of importance. Virteom will directly communicate with Google and tell Google and other search engines how important this page is to you and how often those search engines should come back and view those pages. This takes the guessing work out of the search engine and helps you drive a direct campaign with the search engines. Below are the instructions on managing your page rankings on a Virteom powered website. Opening the page options tab Upon logging in, click Editor in the Virteom Toolbar Find the tab on the left-hand side of the screen to expand the page options tab. Search Engine Page Ranking Click Search Engine Page Ranking to open this section. Adjust the page rank. Here are some guidelines on how to properly assign page rankings in our system. Page ranking ranges from 1.0 (highest importance) to 0.1 (least importance). You want only about 4-5 pages to rank at a 1.0. These pages should be the core aspects

By Mike Harries
August 23, 2013 Category: Learning

Find the Paste from Word button When you copy from a text editor, a lot of times it will carry hidden, embedded styles along with it. Not only will the styles differ from normal text on your website, but they will break any web-based text editor. To work around this, we have a special button to paste from Word. Using this method is the safest way to bring text from any text editing software into your product description. First, click on the clipboard icon in the Navigation Bar Add your text in the box below Paste your content here. Click OK to continue. And you are done! These same steps can be re-used anywhere you see the editors toolbar, such as editing content pages as well as blog posts.

By Mike Harries
February 12, 2013 Category: Learning, Blog, Content

Add a New Blog Page Create a new page of type blog Find the Add Blog Page module under Blog in Website Tools Identify your new blog page Fill in your title and URL (similar to creating any new page) and click Add Blog Page Add content to your new page This process, as for any page, can take some time. Until you publish this page (in the following steps), users will not see this content. So feel free to write a draft! As always, remember to click save page when youre ready to save your content. Find and Save Blog Post Settings Pull out the left tab menu Whilte in edit mode, click on the tab in the left black margin of your page to pull out the left tab menu. Open the Blog tab Click Blog to open the Blog tab Publish the new Blog Entry Fill in the blog settings form The menu that appears will show whether your blog entry has yet been published and when it was (or is scheduled to be) published. It also consists of a form which sets

By Mike Harries
February 05, 2013 Category: Learning, Pages

Virteom makes rolling back changes to your website incredibly easy. In the editor, simply use the sliding bar on the bottom of your screen. You will see the number of available versions that you can roll back, and can use the sliding bar to navigate through them. Virteom will store up to 50 versions of each page, creating a safety net in case you wish to change your design, or make accidental changes. The highest number is the most recent record. For example, you have five versions on a particular page. Lets say you want to reformat your page from version three, and try to branch out from the old layout. Simply navigate to this version, and begin making your changes. Once you hit save, it will be saved as record six. Q: Where do my other versions go if I do this? Wont I lose versions four and five? A: Do not worry. Your fourth and fifth versions are still saved and remain unchanged in case you wish to return to them at a later date. Q: Can I ever accidentally delete my pages version,

By Olivia Justice
January 28, 2019 Category: How To, Navigation, Menus

Want to change the order in which your navigation items appear? Want to remove or add a menu item? No worries, this is all possible within Virteom CMS. Rearranging menu items in virteom cms To start rearranging the order your menu-items appear, login to the back-end of your website. Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (yourdomain.com)/virteom Enter Email Enter Password Click Login Once you login, click on Site Pages or Navigation from the menu. Once you arrive to your Navigation, youll notice the pages of your website have a distinct hierarchy. The pages on your site show in a tree layout - meaning the top most item is the main-menu item, and the pages that appear below it (indented) are children of the menu items. This, in turn, is used to determine how the navigation on your website will appear. For example, if you have a menu on your website that looks like this: the corresponding navigation in Virteom would look like this: In this example, Services is

By Olivia Justice
January 21, 2019 Category: Learning, ECommerce

Do you have a product that is not currently for sale in your Virteom shopping cart? Maybe you have products that are only available during the holiday seasonor during a specific month. We know how time consuming it can be to have to reupload products, so instead of deleting your product, you can simply disable your products for as long as you want. Enabling it again when it becomes available. So,how do you enable or disable a product in Virteom CMS?Keep reading to find out.... How to enable/disable a product First, youll need to sign into the back-end of your website by visiting yourdomain.com/virteom -- just tag /virteom at the end. Visit (insertyourdomain).com/virteom Enter your email Enter your password Click Login Navigate to Products Once youve logged in, click on Manager from the top-editor. From the left-hand menu, select Store Once youre in the store, select Products from the left-hand menu Locate the item you would like to make available or disable. Click Edit

By Olivia Justice
August 17, 2018 Category: Navigation, Pages

Adding and deleting pages that exist within your website is easy with Virteom CMS - just check it out here. But what if you want a link to go out to a different website? Or to a PDF? Thats a little bit less intuitive. In this how-to article, well go over how to link to external web pages in your navigation and how to link to documents. How to link to an external website First things first, youll need to login to the back-end of your website. This is simply your domain URL with /virteom tagged on the end. (For example, ours is virteom.com)and then you enter /virteom after. To login to the back-end of our website, wed type virteom.com/virteom.) On this screen, youll enter your username and password Once youre logged in, click Site Pages (if youre on Rocketsites) or Navigation (if youre running Virteom CMS8 and under) Once youre on the Site Pages youll see your entire website structure. To add an external link to your navigation, locate the Main section and click the + next to

By Virteom
August 02, 2018 Category: Responsive

If you have ever wondered why your website looks different in different browsers, you dont have to worry that youre going crazy. There is a legitimate reason why your website may look off in different browsers, likeInternet Explorer. Read on to learn why this happens. Why Does my Website Look Different in internet explorer? Websites are made up of a set of instructions spoken in a web code language, most often HTML or CSS. Often, different browsers interpret code languages differently, which results in different interpretations. Here are some ways this issue affects your website: Browser Default Settings: When a browser reads the code behind your website, it translates the information in the default settings. For instance, Safari and Chrome have different default fonts, which means the font on your site changes when viewed in these browsers. For example,Safari defaults to the Helvetica familyand Microsofts Internet Explorer defaults to the Arial font family. Default issues are

By Olivia Justice
July 17, 2018 Category: How To

How do I change or reset my password? If you need to change your password in Virteom CMS (or Rocketsites 1.0) follow the directions outlined below: Log-in with your current credentials Visit your website/virteom to log-in to the back-end of your website and enter your current credentials: Navigate to Member Management After you log-in: Rocket Sites 1.0 -- Choose Dashboard from the top navigation Virteom CMS -- Choose Manager from the top navigation From the left-hand menu Choose Members Find Your Name / Account Once you are on the members page, search for your name (or locate it on the page) and click Edit Change your Password Now that you are on your member page: 1. Update your password by typing a new password in the Password box 2. Click Save Your Password is now updated! If you need any further assistance, please send a request in to our help desk!

By Virteom
June 18, 2018 Category: Clear Cache

If you have owned a computer for any length of time you likely have experienced the dread of internet slow down. If it gets bad enough that you need to reach out for technical support one of the first things that they will tell you to try is to clear your browser cache. But what does clearing your cache even do? Why does it help? What is Your Browser Cache? Your cache is the name for a portion of your hard drive that is dedicated to storing browser files that your browser determines it may need to use again. Web pages are packed with information, and this information is stored in dozens, hundreds and sometimes thousands of files for just one site. Your browser will cache portions of the page for you so in future visits load times are quicker, improving your overall internet experience. Why Should I Clear my Cache? Your browser will store things like files, CSS styles, JavaScript scripts, images and other multimedia content. That is why when youre working with a web development firm

By Olivia Justice
October 11, 2017 Category: Modules

Changing URLs is restricted in Virteom CMS - Why? Because it can wreak havoc on your website. Changing your URL can result in: Loss of SEO Ranking Loss of referring site traffic. Have you ever been to a site linked from a blog you were reading and then get a Page does not exist error? - It is likely that they changed the URL. Email Clicks go to Dead URLs much more! To learn more about why changing URLs can devastate your SEO traffic CLICK HERE. But we understand that sometimes changing your URL is neccesarry. We suggest adding a redirect on your page. Redirection is the process of forwarding one URL to a different URL. This allows you to send users and search engines to a different URL than the one that was originally requested. Virteom CMS makes it easy for you to add a redirect on your website. Keep reading this how-to guide to get the scoop: How to add a redirect on your website First things first, youll need to login to the back-end of your website. Type in your

By Virteom
October 05, 2017 Category: User Access, Learning

With Virteom, website administrators can choose which members have access to certain areas on the site. For example, you would want your blogger to have access to create and edit blog pages. You can make different levels of users, from customers and staff, to full admins. Lets get started. After logging in as an admin, select Dashboard (or Manager) from the top bar. Then, on the left hand side, select Members. This will bring up a screen showing all of the members who are registered to your site. You can also search for a members name using the Search field. Click on Edit next to a members name. Here is the user access part of the next screen. You can edit contact information, change a users password, and update user access from this area. Editing Access and Permissions Box 1 is a list of all of the administration features a user has access to. In this example, this user has access to all features. Explore the list on your site and determine how you wish to set up access. Box 2 is

By Olivia Justice
September 29, 2017 Category: Meta Tags, Meta Descriptions, Browser Titles, SEO

SEO in Virteom CMS Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important piece to your website. Generating traffic from organic searches to your website is a key part of your online business. The time and effort you put towards your websites SEO can mean all the difference. Thats why adding things like browser titles, meta descriptions and meta tags for every page on your site is important. Adding these behind the scenes SEO tactics, you can improve your search appearance. In Virteom CMS, we make it easy to add things like meta description, meta tags and browser titles in. Follow along with this how to learn how to add this SEO information on all the pages of your website. First things first, youll need to log-in to the back end of your website. Once you have logged in, you should see a black navigation bar at the top of your screen. Click on Navigation from the black taskbar at the top of your screen Click on the Edit icon that is next to the page name youd like to add SEO information

By Olivia Justice
September 13, 2017 Category: Buttons

Your website has been launched. Congrats! You may be happy with the way things look for a while, but as you may know - creating new content is necessary to stay relevant online. As you create your new web pages, youll more than likely find yourself in the need of a stand out button. Stand out call-to-action (CTA) buttons let your customers know what action you want them to take. It keeps them from being distracted from all of the other links that are provided on your website. But, how did Virteom add that stylish BIG call-to-action (CTA) button that is sprinkled throughout yourwebsite? And, furthermore, how can I use that same style? This how-to guide will show you how to add button styles to the links you create on your website. Locating your button style The first step in the process is locating the button style you want to replicate. Where does this button live? Do you see it on another page on the website? If so, navigate to that page on your site. If you have are computer