Manipulating Text & Links on your website Point & Edit CMS Manipulating Text & Links on your website

Edit Site This is your go to link to get right into site management. After clicking this link, you will be taken directly into the editor. Navigating around your website is done the same way as it is in a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Chrome

Content Blocks Your site is constructed from templates created by Modern Earth. Each template has pre-selected editable area’s for content. These when you place your mouse over the edit button will show more contrast for the block your about to edit.

Content (HTM) Editor After clicking Edit, you’ll get a new window that will resemble your favorite Word Processor. All the familiar function’s you know are here and work the same way. The Styles & Paragraph menu’s format the text size and font’s based on your template as. You can also change the font from the Font Family Menu

Creating a Link To create a link with the Content Editor, simply type the text you would like for the link such as “click here”, from here you simply need to high light the words you want to be turned into a link. Once highlighted right click and select Insert/Edit Link. Known Issues: We are aware of a problem with creating links in Internet Explorer 10 and 11

Setting Link Parameters Once you’ve selected Insert/Edit Link, you now get to set where you want to link to along with some additional options. In Link URL you want to enter the website address you want to send the visitor to. You should include http:// in this Target tells the user’s browser how to handle the request. The two most common options are Open in this Window/Frame or Open in New Window/Frame. Setting a title, gives a description of the link when a user places their mouse over the link for a few seconds.

Confirming your changes Once you’re satisfied with the changes you’ve made, simply click OK in the HTML Content Editor.

Saving your work You are able to save changes you have made, this is helpful if you have to go to attend to other tasks. In order to do this, simply click on Page Actions and Select Save Draft. You can see your current drafts when you first login, or at the top of the page as indicated by a bright green bar

Putting your changes online. You’ve made the changes to your pages, and are ready to put them online for your customers. To do this, simply select Page Actions and click on Publish. That’s it, your page is now online

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