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How do I get the right password and permissions?

Mail your full name, official mail address, and the part of the site where you want to be able to edit to the Administrator of the site.

Where can I log in to edit pages?

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How to adjust my personal settings in My Preferences?

• Log in, you will get the Personal Bar
• Click My Preferences
• Change your password, if needed
• Personal preferences
• Full name
• E-mail
• Content editor

Editing

How can I add a page?

• A page is called a “document”
• Surf to the spot where you want to add a page,
• click the contents tab,
• add a document,
• edit and save.

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Clip 3. Make a front page or default document for a section.
Clip 4. Create a second page and link to it.

What is a default document and why use one?

• A default document acts as cover page for a folder.
• If your folder does not contain one, the special default page button shows up.

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Clip 3. Make a front page or default document for a section.
Clip 4. Create a second page and link to it.

How can I add a navigation button (in one language)?

• Make a Folder, edit it.
• Publish the folder (in order to make it show up in the navigation panel).

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Clip 2. Make a new section or folder.
Clip 5. Publish your folder to make it appear to the public.

How can I add a navigation button that can be translated?

• Make a Language Folder: I18NFolder.
• Publish the folder.

How can I add an image to a page?

• Upload all your images.
• Edit your page, press the toolbox button, surf to your image, press insert image.

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Clip 6. Upload and insert an image.

I copy/pasted some text from Word or a web page, but now it looks strange. How can I fix that?

• Cut the text away,
• paste it in a txt file using the Notepad program,
• paste it back in your editor (you will lose all layout, images and links)
• edit it from scratch.

How can I make a page visible to the public (public meaning: users who are not logged in)?

• When a page is un-finished, you should keep it out of the public eye by keeping it invisible.
• Invisible and Visible are the two main states for a page (a document). When you make a new page, it is invisible and you should change the state to make it visible.
• You can switch between these states easily, using the State drop-down menu.

How can I add translations to an existing page?

·         When a page is first created, it gets the label 'English'.

(Note: You do not create new documents for every new language version. Instead, you make new language layers for one existing document.)

Once your document is created, you can add language versions to that same document.
How? By selecting a new language from the language selection drop-down menu.

Every time you select a new language, you are projected to the Edit form of an empty new page, where you can add the title and text for that new language.

When you select 'Advanced' at the bottom of the drop-down menu, you get an overview of the existing languages and their titles.

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Clip 7. Make a translation.

Why does it say my page is 'English', while the text is in an other language?

• When a page is created, it automatically gets the label 'English'.

English is the default language. When a page is just 'English', the visitors of a page will get that version, whatever language settings they have made. In other words: if there exists only a version labelled English of a document, the system will show that version to the user.

• What should you do with the language settings for a 'uni-lingual' page?

If a page will only have one language version, whatever that language will be, you should ignore the language settings and leave them as they are.

What happens then, is that a user will always get that page, no matter what his or her language selection is.

• What happens when a page exists only in a few language versions: for instance French and English?

A user with French or English selected in the language panel, will get the corresponding language version.

A user with Dutch, Italian or German selected, will get a screen where he or she must choose for English or French.

Your personal assignment.

EXERCISE 1. Setting up your browser.

Adjust your language preferences in your browser.

EXERCISE 2. Edit text and images.

Edit the front page from your country. Put a small introductory text there.

You have a logo on your front page. Add a link to this image to the site of the organisation represented by the logo.

EXERCISE 3. Create new pages.

Add default documents (front pages) to every folder in your national site. Put a title, a short description and a small introduction there, in your own language.

EXERCISE 4. Translate your national site's front page into English.

This is an exercise in transforming a simple, uni-lingual, page into a multi-lingual page.

 In fact, since the existing front page is 'uni-lingual', the language setting is already English. You will add a new language version corresponding to your national language and 'cut and paste' the existing text in that page. The English translation is written on the English version of your page, off course.

1. First copy the content from the front page.

• At your front page, click edit and select the contents of your page. Press Edit > copy.

2. Then, make a new language version.

• Still at your front page, choose your language from the drop down menu. in the resulting edit screen, paste your content right away. Add a Title and a description. Ready!

3. Now you are ready to translate the English page. Go there through the language menu, if necessary press the edit menu, and start writing!