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Web Press Tips and Tricks

Presentation by Brian Heaton

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What’s New

Software Updates and Hardware Upgrades
  • Latest release of content management system software
  • New web and database server machines with faster processors and twice the memory
  • User’s name and email address now automatically populated
Freeform Content Editor
  • Only one paste button
  • No longer a separate “Paste from Word”
  • All content is automatically cleansed
  • Selected asset manager folder is retained
  • Save and exit are now separate functions
  • Save and continue editing as often as desired
  • Close the window to end editing
  • You will be prompted if unsaved changes are present 
Email Notifications for Submitted and Published Pages
  • With email addresses now present editors are receiving email notifications of pages submitted to workflow or published
  • Three options for users
    1. Process emails from your Inbox    
    2. Establish alternate destination folder as described in Follow in Create a Folder and Rule to Send Web Press Emails to a Certain Folder in Outlook (https://webpress.missouristate.edu/CreateEmailRule.htm)
    3. Cease being an editor for that web site       

Best Practices and Tips

Add an MP3 Audio Player Page
  • Available in General Pages group
  • Load mp3 file into asset manager
  • Specify alignment on page
  • Specify width of player display
  • See full instructions
Add an YouTube Video Page
  • Available in General Pages group
  • Upload video to YouTube.com
  • Specify YouTube video ID
  • Specify tagline alignment
  • Specify video player alignment
  • Specify player size
  • Specify tagline  
  • See full instructions