Scheduling Publish/Expiration

If you want to schedule your page to go live at a certain date & time, you can set a scheduled publish. This will lock the page with your edits on the backend, then publish at the set time.

This can be useful for setting an expiration to your information.

Example: A workshop is supposed to be advertised til 10/01 at 10:00am.

Publish the info for the event. Then at the same time, delete the information in the backend and schedule a re-publish for 10/01 at 10:00am. That way, you can set up your advertisement and schedule its timely removal in one editing session.

Requesting a Livewhale Calendar Feed

If you find yourself often adding/removing events from your webpage, consider using a Livewhale calendar widget instead. See examples on the ESL Connect resources or the Learning Center workshops page.

These widgets are highly customizable and will feed information for your events directly from the Skyline College Campus Calendar into your page. This helps the page remain up-to-date and you only have to update information for your event on the calendar for it to update on the website too.

Request a widget for your program from the web programmer.

Using Components

Components provide some simple pre-built structures for you to fill in with your information. This makes it easier to add accessible & responsive structure to your page independently. If you want to do a lot of structural work though, it's always best to collaborate with the web programmer.

How to use a Component:

  1. While editing a page, click the atom icon in the second row of the editor toolbar to Insert Component. 
  2. In the "Choose Component" box, click a component name.
  3. You can search for a specific component with the filter searchbar. Some examples include:
    • Alert
    • 2-col image & text
    • 2-col gray-bg image & text
    • Youtube
  4. 2. Click Insert.
  5. 3. In the "Edit Component" box, enter information in the form fields.
  6. 4. Click Save.

Using Assets

Assets are good for scenarios in which the same content needs to be repeated in multiple areas. Using an asset means only having to update it in one place.

Example: The Financial Aid office needs to provide some annual information on two pages, but it's important that this information for both pages is always identical. Inserting the same asset on both pages ensures this.

Editing Contact Information

Depending on which page you are editing, the contact information may be inserted differently. Check with the web programmer to learn how to edit the contact page for your case.

If the information in your directory card is incorrect, you will need to contact ITS to change the directory.

Save Progress & Stay in Page Editor

Clicking the blue save button or the top left save icon in the toolbar takes you out of the page editor to preview your changes. If you'd like to save part of your edits and immediately continue to add more, use these shortcuts to save in place. 

  • Windows: Ctrl+S
  • Mac: Cmd+S

Save a Version of Past Work / Semester Patterns

If you have edits that occur on a schedule, you can save versions to revert to instead of having to redo the information every time. 

  1. In the top right corner next to the publish button, click the three dots icon.
  2. Select the dropdown item 'Save Version'.
  3. Add a description to remember what this version is for.
  4. You can now view the various versions and revert in the Versions tab.

Example: There is certain page content listed every spring, and a different set every fall.

Anchor Text

An anchor gives the ability to provide a link that jumps straight to a certain section of the page.

  1. Click where you'd like to add the anchor, then click the anchor icon
  2. Give the anchor a name (letters & numbers only, no spaces)
  3. You can now use the "insert/edit link" tool for this page to link to the anchor