Jadu Training Documents & Homepages

A little about Jadu Jadu (Sanskrit). Pronounced: Jar-doo Jadu is a website content management system (CMS) Jadu is a UK based company

What is a Content Management System? A Content Management System, or a CMS enables non-technical content contributors to easily publish information in a web-based environment, that offers workflow control and collaboration A CMS’ strength is providing a consistent look and user experience site-wide.

What we cover today: Editing your website using: Document Pages Homepages Uploading and linking to PDFs Using the Downloads module in Jadu

Document pages Document pages are the key to organizing your pages and navigation in Jadu. Usually just content and images.

Homepages Homepages are typically landing pages with a few exceptions. A Jadu homepage is a feature rich webpage which uses pre-built ‘widgets’ to add form and function.

And now… the meat and bones of it all

Logging In Please note that today we will be using the training server, not the live server. Log in using your Messiah credentials

messiah.edu/trainingtoday Let’s start editing! Go to: messiah.edu/trainingtoday

Tips for Editing Homepages To create a single space after a line, click Shift+Enter The text editor looks different from the actual page Save your page and click “Preview” to see what the page will look like live. Review the list of widgets before laying out your page, then sketch it out. It will be easier to add widgets after the page is planned out.

For more information on editing your homepages, adding images or using widgets, please visit: http://www.messiah.edu/cms