Editing page content

The page content window is headed by 3 rows of icons that provide various editing functions. If you hover the mouse over any icon you will see a brief description of what it does.

Text functions

Before using the following icons, highlight the required section of text before clicking on the appropriate icon to format that section of text.

Bold | Italic text | Justify text centre, left right etc | Colour text or background | Bullet or numbered lists | Indent left/right, Blockquote | cut text [also control X] Subscript/Superscript | Remove formatting

Formatting functions

Before using the following icons, insert the curser at the required position before clicking on the appropriate icon to insert the feature.

Insert date | Insert horizontal rule | Insert custom character | Insert Anchor | Insert Image | Insert media [See Inserting media section below] | Insert Table

General functions

The functions below operate regardless of where the curser is placed in the content.

Spell Check [The first time you use this function you may be asked to download and install the free ISpell Active x component]

Search | Search and Replace | Undo | Show/Hide guidelines | Clean up code | Toggle full screen mode | HTML view/editing

Inserting Movie/video Media

If you want movie clip(s) to play on your page, before you edit the page, you need to upload the video media files** to the web server by using the left hand Admin index "Upload files/images" link.

To . .

• Insert ONE video on the page . .
  (a) upload the files to the /edit/movie directory.
  (b) then edit the page in the content editor and use the "Attach Video from /edit/movie" to select the required video.
  The video will be displayed at bottom of page and start automatically,
  or you can insert ##VIDEO## (Video starts automatically) or ##VIDEOMANUAL## (Video needs to be started by user) anywhere on page to position it where required.
• Insert MULTIPLE video on the page . .
  (a) using the left hand Admin index "Directories" link, create a dedicated directory for the videos to appear on this page.
  (b) Use the left hand Admin index "Upload files/images" link to upload the video media files** into the new directory.
  (c) then edit the page in the content editor and use the Automatic functions section "Moviegrid" to select required directory.
  The video thumbnails will be displayed as a grid which can be clicked to play the particular video.

** Video Media Files

To enable the video to play on all different browsers and devices (laytops, mobile phones, tablets etc) three different formats - .MP4, .OGV and .WEBM

So for each required video, 3 versions need to be uploaded, eg

name_of_video.mp4
name_of_video.ogv
name_of_video.webm