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Category: Sidebar Menu
How to Use the Sidebar Menu
How to use the Sidebar Menu Sidebar menus have been used as a directory for Related Pages to a Service offering, Navigation items to a specific service or topic and even just as Links the visitor may be interested in. Sidebar menus are extremely useful and allow users to control what links are added to a page as new content is created and if old content is obsolete. Does your website have a sidebar menu, but youre not exactly sure how to add navigation items to it or how to add it to a new page? This how to guide will take you step by step on how to create the menu item for the sidebar menu and how to add the sidebar menu to your page. Signing into the Virteom CMS First things first, youll need to sign into the back-end of Virteom CMS. Go to www.yourwebsite.com/virteom and type in your username and password. Creating a New Menu from Scratch for your Sidebar Menu Now that youre logged in, youll need to access your Navigation: 1. From the Black Navigation bar at the topic
Category: Content
Embedding a YouTube Video
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
Adding and Editing Blog Posts
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
Editing On-Page Content
Using Virteom, you can edit any of the body content of your pages. Generally speaking, this is the main content area on the page. In some cases there are multiple areas that can be edited, but that depends on your sites design and layout. There are two ways to make a page editable. Which you use depends on preference and if you are already viewing the page you want to edit. To make the current page editable To make the current page editable, you must be logged into Virteom. Then, while viewing the page you want to edit, click the Editor link in the Menu Bar. Each editable text area on the page will have a dotted line around it. You can click inside that editable area to work with it. To select a page to edit If you are not viewing the page you want to edit, you may click the Navigation link in the Menu Bar, find the page you want to edit within the Navigation window, and click its Edit (arrow) icon. The page will appear with a dotted line around the editable area(s),
Working with Links
Links are clickable spots (the link) on a webpage that take the visitor elsewhere (the target). A link may take the visitor to another page on your site (an internal link), to a page on a different website (an external or outbound link), or to a different spot on the same page (an anchor link). They may also open an email message addressed to a particular email address in the visitors default email program. (Note that we generally do not recommend this type of email link as it can be a target for spam and, depending on the email program used by the visitor, they do not always work as expected.) The clickable spot can be text or an image. If its text, it is usually formatted in such a way to indicate to the user that its clickable. Historically, this has been through an underline, but, depending on the design of your website, it may be through a different color or a hover affect (the text style changes when you point to it with the mouse). Regardless of the type of link or target, the