Trainings are on the first Thursdays of every month at 2 p.m.
Guides
SMC Training Videos
- New Snippets: Contact Box and Program List
- Updated Snippets: Accordion and Carousel with automatic heading updates.
- Discussion of Landing Page hero section and video backgrounds and the Calendar.
- Learn what’s needed to promote programs and initiatives on the national award-winning SMC website and social media channels.
- This will include information on what marketing efforts are done for these two areas, as well as timeline/planning, content, and accessibility requirements
- Dependency Tags
- Why we need to use them.
- Shortcuts to find them.
- Landing Pages
- Landing Page hero section
- The Section Wrapper Snippet: why and how.
- The Video Component
- How to add a video to your page.
- Formatting the "Poster Image"
- Placement and backgrounds
- Snippets vs. Carousels (what's the difference - a side-by-side comparison)
- Generic Blocks (what's the difference - when to use them)
- Grid Buttons
- Template choices. Landing page vs. Interior page.
- Tables - adding rows to snippets.
October 22, 2020 - Web Calendar Only
- Faculty directory page
- Accordion
August 14, 2020 - Flex Day: How to Use New Tools on the SMC Website
Excited to share bells and whistles on the new website that uses OmniUpdate! We share
new features and how you can take advantage of new tools for your website.
One-hour overview of website launch and web basics.
One-hour overview of website launch and web basics.
An introduction to OmniUpdate v.11.
Covered in the second hour:
- Links - pages and documents.
- The left side navigation and how to edit the "_nav.inc" file.
- Faculty Pages! The future of the "homepage.smc.edu" pages.
- The Accordion Snippet
- The Faculty Detail Template
Covered in the second hour:
- Editing the Side Navigation
- Working with the new and improved Grid Button snippet
- Adding a Carousel
- Adding a Hero with an image
- Uploading and editing images
This was a small group so we covered advanced information on specific webpages:
- Working with single-column landing pages, including adding a "Section Wrapper" snippet.
- Adding and editing tables.
(Note: the problems we were having with the table in the accordion had to do with backend structure and what's "editable" in the snippet tables. Until it is fixed, tables should be made outside of the snippet table structure as we did in the demo.) - Adding and editing Grid Button snippet and Grid Button component.
- Creating a new page
- Editing hero section
- Working with side navigation
- Working with "_props.pcf" file
- Finding a URL on the new site using the Migration Map file.
Covered in the second hour:
- Hero section
- Uploading and editing images
- Adding and editing a table snippet
- Creating and adding a web content asset
Covered in the second hour:
- Calendar snippet
- Image Gallery - includes descriptions of "assets" and "components"
- Special "call to action" buttons.
- The "Grid Buttons" snippet and the "Grid Button" component.
Covered in the second hour:
- Adding a Video Component
- Editing an image
- Demo of adding a "hero" with an image
- Adding and editing a table (more snippets)
Covered in the second hour:
- Hero section, image editing, and Snippets
- Form creation, editing, and placement on a page using Assets
- How to edit the side navigation
Covered in the second hour:
- Hero section
- Working with Tables - the table snippet
- Accordion snippet
- Other snippet demonstrations: carousel, block images, leader list
- Asset demonstration. changing text in an asset to display on multiple pages
- Form asset - building, editing, and placing on a page
- Call to action button components
- Image folders - placing an image and alternate text
Covered in the second hour:
- Leader lists
- Accordion
- Placing text using an asset
- Backend structure of OU. Page lists - checkout light bulb - root level of the website
- A rundown of the different asset types
- Form asset - building, editing, and placing on a page
- Video component
- Blue CTA button component
- Editing images in OU
OU Training Videos
Future Training Options
- Monthly Orientations: 2nd Friday of the month at 10 a.m.
- Training Tuesdays: Once a month at 11 a.m.
December 11-19, 2019
- Train-the-Trainer
- Initial Site Setup
- Continued Site Maintenance, Faculty Directory
- Advanced Content, Insights, Emergency Alerts
- OU Search
- OU Calendar
- Email Campaign Manager
New Design Tools
- Assets – pre-made, specific content that can go on many pages, like forms and embed codes.
- Components – form-based templates, like buttons, galleries, and buttons
- Snippets – table-based templates, like accordions, carousels, and tables.