General
This page serves as an outline for how to perform specific tasks with regard to maintaining the website or adding content to it. Our new website is Drupal based, so you can often find some helpful hints for how to perform different tasks online. Keep in mind, however, that our platform does not give us access to the html code, so any suggestions that require you to directly alter the code will not be helpful to you. If you make any changes to the site that you believe would be useful to the group in general, please add detailed instructions for how to make those changes here.
Linking to a publication
(1) Make sure you are logged in via touchstone.
(2) Go to the page where you will be inserting the link, and click on the "Edit" tab.
(3) Highlight the text that will be your hyperlink and click on the "Link" icon.
(4) Whether or not you have yet uploaded your publication as a PDF, click "Browse Server"
(4a) If your publication has not yet been uploaded, navigate to the "documents" directory, and click the "upload" button, then "Browse"
(4b) Find the file you'd like to upload and double click it. Click upload.
(5) Once the publication has been uploaded to the server, navigate to the "documents" directory.
(6) Find the publication you wish to link to and double click it.
(7) Before clicking OK, go to the "target" tab.
(8) For the target pull-down menu, select "New Window (_blank)"
(9) Click OK, and your link should be all set. You can go back into the link settings and alter any settings later if something needs to be changed.
Changing font or font size
Our fonts should all be in Arial. You can change the font sizes (or font itself if necessary) by switching to the filtered html setting at the bottom
of any page you are editing. Once you have finished changing the font, switch back to the full html setting before saving your changes.
Create a new basic page
(1) Click on the "Content" button on the top menu bar.
(2) Click "add content"
(3) Click "add basic page"
(4) After you've added your content to the new page, you can decide if it will be published or not. Near the bottom of the page, go to
"Publishing Options." If you don't want people to see the page, make it unpublished. It will then be saved for you to work on later
but will not be viewable by anyone external to our group.