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Content types are, as the name states, different types of content that you can use to add information to your website. It's a good way to keep things within your website looking organized with minimal effort. The following is a list of the available content types and what each of them are for. The links in each of them elaborates on each type further.
- Article — Allows you to post Departmental News
- Basic Page — Allows you to post mostly static information that changes infrequently (ie NOT news, events, directory listings, etc)
- Courses — Allows you to provide basic information about courses
- Event — Allows you to post upcoming departmental events based on dates
- Lab — Allows you to post information about Research Labs in your department.
- Personnel — Allows you to provide contact information, biography, CV, research, publications, etc for a Faculty & Staff directory
- Research Area — Allows you to list the different types of research being done in the department.Slide — Allows you to load large dynamic images as "sliders" in your homepage
What are Content Lists?
Content lists are, as the name states, list of content. When you create a new Article, or a New Event, or a New Course, they all get added to a list of content. Some examples of these content lists are under an the following URLS http://xxxx.franklin.uga.edu/news/all for Articles or http://xxxx.franklin.uga.edu/events for Events where xxxx is replaced with the acronym for your department (e.g. MATH, CSCI, etc.)
All content types except Basic Pages have content lists. For Basic Pages to appear on the menu, you must link them to it manually. Please read this documentation in order to find out how to add to the menu structure.
Step 1: Choose a Content Type
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