Tips and Tricks

Front Page

  • To get new splash banners up, place an article in the newest (highest year) folder under /about/announcements, e.g. /about/announcements/2007/article.html. The picture will link to the article (you may want a Redirect instead); priority is taken into account (1 means it comes early in the sequence of pictures, 9 means near the end) and be sure to put in an absolute URL to a picture. = )

Left Sidebar Ads

To add a left sidebar ad, you'll need three things:

  1. A name (bit of text) for the add, such as "Apply Now"
  2. An existing or new graphic to show for the ad. This graphic should be 174px wide by 50px tall and should have a 2px wide white border. Example: "http://www.twu.ca/undergraduate/ad-apply.jpg"
  3. A web address that this ad should send the user to when it is clicked, such as "http://www.twu.ca/apply"

Once you have these addresses, you can create the new ad:

  1. Go to the folder where you want the ad to appear. These settings will also affect its subfolders when their menus are published, so you should only need to do this once.
  2. Click the Folder Properties link at the top right of the folder.
  3. In the Folder Settings box, you'll be adding a bit of code. You may already have some code in there, but the main thing is to get the part in there:
    • If you just have <settings></settings> in the text box, you'll need to add code inside the <settings>...</settings> part so that it looks like this:
      <settings><section><ads><ad title="Apply Now" src="http://www.twu.ca/undergraduate/ad-apply.jpg" href="http://www.twu.ca/apply" /></ads></section></settings>
    • If you already have code in there look for a bit of code that reads . Between the ("begin ads") and the ("end ads") code, add the code for your ad:
      <ad title="Apply Now" src="http://www.twu.ca/undergraduate/ad-apply.jpg" href="http://www.twu.ca/apply" />
  4. Save the settings and confirm that they show up on the preview site as expected. If you get an error when you try to save, there is likely something wrong with the code you entered. Make sure that you get all the quote marks in and all the < and > and / characters as well.
  5. If it works on the Preview Server, it should work on the main server, so Save and Publish the settings via the Folder Properties tab.
If you have more questions, ask Orion.