2. First EURAXESS TOPIII training for Portal Administrators
Thessaloniki,

3. Agenda What is this presentation about:
The structure of a national site – site map
How to structure content pages
Basic VS Information topic
Simple Layout
Advanced Layout
News & Events
Edit the Menu and Footer
Translate content

4. Typical Page structure
Menu
Content
Footer
Top level menus are created only by the site administrators.
You provide the content
An initial footer provided, you may edit it and modified it at your convenience.

5. PORTAL STRUCTURE for national sites
HOME
1st Level Menu
JOBS & FUNDING
INFORMATION& ASSISTANCE
MY EURAXESS
Mandatory Items:
Jobs & Funding
Information and Assistance
Login / My EURAXESS
Top level menus are created only by the site administrators.
Information (these are the old service topics)

6. PORTAL STRUCTURE for national sites
HOME
1st Level Menu
JOBS & FUNDING
INFORMATION& ASSISTANCE
NETWORK
RESEARCH
LANDSCAPE
NEWS &
EVENTS
MY EURAXESS
Mandatory Items:
Jobs & Funding
Information and Assistance
Login / My EURAXESS
Optional Items, indicative:
<Country> Network – About us
Research Landscape
News and Events
Some national sites decided to place the “Research Landscape” under Information and Assistance / Working in <country>
It depends on how much content you have and how prominent you want to make it
We suggest up to 5 menu items on the top level menu.
Ex.

7. PORTAL STRUCTURE for national sites
For the 2nd Level Menu it is up to you to decide its items:
Use 1 up to 3 columns to add menu items, menus are explained in detail later.
Items can be entered directly by the national site editors

8. How to structure content pages
Decide based on
How much content you have
How much prominent the content should be
Use the predefined components to enhance the look-and-feel of your pages

9. How to structure content pages
Bullets, makes text easy to read.
Tabs, recommended for landing pages and for pages with lot of content
Collapsible, when the user needs to see an overview of the content before go through the details - for example when listing the different types of visa, a site visitor does not need to read all visas to determine what visa is applicable for him/her.
Sub-pages, can be used when there is a lot of content which not suitable for collapsible or tabs
Bullets
Tabs,
Collapsible,
Sub-pages,

10. Basic VS Information topic
Their content will be shared in the EU site.
Must be related to the following categories of
"Living",
"Working" and
"Leaving" the country
Tagged with one or more topic:
It is not compulsory to have pages to cover all topics, use only those that apply to your country.
An information page can be tagged
with more than one topic (if there is not enough content for several topics and you want to merge them into a single page), or
more than one pages can be tagged with the same topic (if there is a lot of content and you want to break it into sub-pages).
Predefined images are applied for each topic

11. Basic VS Information topic
Select a Topic and Category for an Information page:

12. Editing pages - Simple Layout
From your dashboard:

13. Editing pages - Simple Layout
When viewing the page:

14. Editing pages - Simple Layout
Simple pages can be created by copy/pasting text from MS Word or other source.
Create a new Information topic page
Paste you text from Word
Set up the category and topic

15. Editing pages - Simple Layout
More on editing pages with simple layout
Working with links
link to internal page - a page on the same website - for example the jobs page or an information topic.
link to an external page.
All links to internal pages must be relative - this means you should not specify the domain such as euraxess.pt
Use the shortcode provided in to create an internal link
External links can be added either by shortcode or from editor

16. Editing pages - Simple Layout
Editor tips:
Expand the editor to full screen when entering a lot of content.
To enter a new line inside a list and not create a new bullet/numbered list, use SHIFT+Enter
Use CTRL + Find in editor to find content in long pages.
Use the Preview functionality to check your changes before saving.
Open external links in a new window (set target to blank)
Always use relative URLs when referring to EURAXESS pages

17. Editing pages – Advanced Layout
Create a landing page with tabs
You can enhance the look-and-feel of your pages by using the predefined components such as collapsibles, tabs, carousels, images, galleries, etc. From the components page choose the components that fit your needs.
Insert an image header using shortcode.
Select image size: Picture Stage content
Add the “Tab” component to split your page into three sections.
Add a “Block with image”
Select an image style
Add a “Block with collapsible”
Components:
Images are an important tool to convey ideas and concept visually
Talk about images and image styles
Up to 4 tabs are recommended

18. News & events Additional information needed by News & Events
Categories: Enter the category of your news/event. This category will affect the block that the item will be displayed.
Tags: Enter all the tags relevant to your news/event. This will allow users to filter news/events on search pages.
Event Image: Attach an image 270x154 pixels.
Expiration date: Enter the date when the news/event will be unpublished.
Additional information needed for Events only:
Location/Venue: Enter the detail information of the location regarding your events
Organiser: Enter the detail information of the organiser.
Categories: Career news, EURAXESS Worldwide, Funding, Jobs, Partnering (or create your own)
Tags: Announcements, Calendar, Call for papers, Calls for proposals, Careers (or create your own)

19. News & events Publishing options tips:
Sticky at top of lists: Check this if you want this news/event to be displayed promptly on the events component
Send subscriptions notifications: Check this to notify subscribers of the pages related to this news/event.
Authoring Information: Once the news/event has been created, you can modify the creation date of the item
Up to 4 tabs are recommended
Components:
Images are an important tool to convey ideas and concept visually
Talk about images and image styles

20. Editing pages - Simple Layout
Use component to display News & Events at pages:
Categories
Search page
User topics to group relevant content
Navigate to search page

21. Editing pages - Simple Layout
News & Events search result
Tags
Search page for news and events, users may search news and events using
Free text
Topic
Tag

22. Editing the menu Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Rows Links
To edit a menu block, hover on the menu, click on the gear in the top right and click "Edit Block“
Use columns and rows to add your links
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Rows
Links

23. Editing the menu
Decide how many columns you need: remember when editing a menu block use columns and rows to add your links, so that they have the appropriate view when you access it from a mobile device.
Get the appropriate snippet from the editor’s manual: add the links to your pages
Remember
1) to use the snippet for links
[button type="link" link="/node/5768" title="Useful information"]internal link description[/button]
2) Relative path
3) Node id

24. Editing the menu
Exploit the button links at the bottom of the menu block to retrieve information from EU site related to your national site.
Get the appropriate snippet from the editor’s manual:
Find the code of your national site, create a search link:
Links for almost all search pages are already created for you.

25. Editing the footer
To edit the footer block, hover on the footer, click on the gear in the top right and click "Edit Block“
Items in the footer are usually consisted with the first level menu items
An initial footer has already been provided to you when the national site was created.

26. Translate content
To add a translation go to the page you want to translate and click "Translate" from your right menu. created.

27. Translate content
Then you will see a table with all the available languages. Go to the language you want and click "add".
You can now edit the content and add your translation.

28. Translate content
Do the same for the menu blocks and the footer. Click on the gear in the top right, click "Translate" and edit the content: .

29. Finding help National Sites Editor quick help
National Sites Editor guidelines
Read the editor’s manual
Component
Styleguide

30. Finding help
From your dashboard: