Overview of the Web Management System (WMS)

• About: Web Management System (WMS)
• Roles and permissions
• Known issues

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Content Management

• Customize the shortcuts toolbar
• Managing content via My Workbench
• Use the WYSIWYG editor
  
  • Course, program, or general information links from the eCalendar
  • Use accordions to style content
  • Vertical and horizontal tabs
  • One to Five column layouts
  • Big Numbers template
  • Grid displays with ol and ul lists
  • Ghost buttons
• Create a page
• Create an article and enable the Articles block
• Edit a page or article
  
  • Tagging content
• Meta tags in the WMS
• Clone a basic page or an article
• Deleting or unpublishing web pages and articles
• Translate a page
• Support for non-Roman characters
• Add an image to a page
• Image Credit & License settings in the WMS 
• Add a file to a page (PDF, JPG, MP4, etc.)
  
  • Add video or animation to your WMS page (Embed a YouTube video)
• Focal point for images in the WMS
• Create a gallery of images in the WMS
• McGill Profiles
  
  • Creating & Editing Profiles
  • Enable and re-order profile fields
  • Banner Update Settings
  • Display Name / Indexable Name
  • Enabling the Index & the Search box
  • Setting up Filters for the Profiles List
  • Using self-authorship to edit your McGill Profile
• Restricted pages
• Create a Webform
  
  • Webform security considerations
  • Webform component types
  • Webform Calculator (Formula) module
  • Webform Layout Box
  • Advanced Grid
  • Webform conditionals
  • Using Tokens in webforms
  • Viewing and downloading results of webform submissions
  • Webform emails and confirmation pages
• McGill Channels
  
  • Creating and updating a Channels Event or News item
  • Importing Channels and creating blocks
  • Channels Events Search
  • Pinning Channels Events and News
• Links
  
  • Find broken links
  • Related Content links in the WMS
• McGill maps
• Scheduling

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Site Management

• Managing files and images in the WMS
• Change a site "home" page
• Build and restructure menus
• Guidelines for the implementation of a mega menu
• Add, edit and manage Footer content
• Create, edit, delete, or translate a Block
  
  • Manage blocks
  • "On This Page" block and anchors
  • "Follow Site" block
  • Create a Call-to-action block
  • Create a Campaign Tracker block
  • Create a List block
  • Create McGill Statement blocks
  • Create a Twitter block
  • Create a Hero block
  • Blocks and the View mode
  • Embed external site blocks in the WMS
• Add RSS feeds to your site using the Feed Aggregator
• Restore a previous version of a web page
• Use a staging site to restructure your existing WMS site
• Redirects in the WMS and other publishing services
• Creating and managing McGill short links using the URL Shortener
• Using the Dashboard
• Google Analytics reports

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Best Practices

Publishing and operating a website involves more than just adding text and images to a web template. It includes keeping the site on topic, relevant, up-to-date, and respectful of its readers.

Visit the Web Services website to learn more about support and resources for planning, designing, building, and maintaining websites for the McGill community’s wide-ranging audiences and site visitors.

Additionally, the following articles are available:

• Accessibility and usability standards used by the McGill Web System
• Basic HTML markup