Editing Basic Pages

1. New pages can be added by clicking the "+ Add content" button in the upper-right of the Content Overview or navigating the Content menu to Add content > Basic page.
2. Add a Title in title case (all primary words and prepositions of four letters or more are capitalized). 
3. Select your department, office or program in the Section field at top left. If you don’t see an area in this field that relates to your page, please let Marketing know.
4. Add a description of your page into the Page Summary field. This field is required since it provides critical information to users searching Google or other search engines. Enter 1-3 sentences describing what information is provided by the page and how it helps its target audience. For more information review this video on Search Engine Optimization.
5. In the lower left, below the section header for "Body Content," you'll see a dropdown menu enabling you to add components to your page, which you can then populate with content. Select and add the relevant components. The Working with Web Content resources provide best practices and answers to a number of frequently asked questions.
6. If you’d like to Save your new page as a draft, click Save and you can return to it by clicking Edit Draft above the page headline. There is no auto-save in Drupal, so you may want to Save periodically. You can do this as often as you’d like - your draft will not be reviewed or published until you’re ready.
7. When ready to submit to the editorial team, write a log message describing the page and change the state from Draft to Needs Review before saving. For more information on the publishing process see the Editorial Workflow page.

You'll be able to edit any pages which you are assigned to based on their section. Search the content overview to find the page you need to edit. Alternately, if you are logged in, you can navigate to the page or use a bookmark and you should see the View, Edit, and Revisions tabs if you have access to that page.

Once you're editing the page, you can expand each component by clicking the Edit button to its right.

To add a new component to an existing page, use the dropdown menu at the lower left below the Body Content section to add components to your page, which you can then populate with content. Select and add the relevant components. The Working with Web Content resources provide best practices and answers to a number of frequently asked questions.

Check the Page Summary

Each page requires a page summary describing its purpose. This summary is important for users arriving from Google and other search engines. For some pages a default page summary was provided that simply used a snippet of the first lines of text on the page.

Please take the time to rewrite any summaries that aren't an accurate, relevant description of the page content. Enter 1-3 sentences describing what information is provided by the page. For more information review this video on Search Engine Optimization.

Copying WYSIWYG content

Drupal unfortunately doesn’t have a copy feature to clone existing pages. This is a workaround if you want to copy WYSIWYG sections with complex layouts where a simple copy and paste from the webpage to the editor doesn't work correctly.

1. Open two tabs in Drupal:
   1. In one tab, click Edit on the page with the WYSIWYG component you’d like to copy.
   2. In the other, in your admin menu select Content > Add Content > Basic page.
2. On the new page, select your Section, add your Title, add your Page Summary, use the Menu settings to provide a menu link, and define your Parent page.
3. In the old page, expand the WYSIWYG component and click the Source button on the right side of the editor.
4. Select all the code in the editor (Ctrl + A) and copy it (Ctrl + C).
5. On the new page, create a new WYSIWYG component and click the Source button on the right side of the editor.
6. Paste the code from your clipboard into the editor (Ctrl + V).
7. Click the Source button again to return to the WYSIWYG version of the editor
8. You can now go back in and Edit to adjust copy, pictures and other elements to customize your new page.

This approach also works for accordions and other components that utilize HTML/text editor fields.

Duplicating components

Although components can't be copied from one page to another, it is possible to duplicate components instead of adding them from scratch. On the existing component, click the three vertical dots in the top right (just to the right of the Collapse button). This gives the option to Remove or Duplicate the component.

Creating Anchor links

For longer pages of text — especially those with discreet subheads — you may wish to create anchor, or “jump,” links in a list at the top of the page to help users navigate quicker to where they’d like to go. Here’s how to create them.

1. Each component has an optional Anchor tag field at the top. Add a label to this field; for best results only use text and hyphens.
2. Any component that can hold links can be used, but bulleted lists in WYSIWYG components are most common for this purpose. Insert a bulleted list and create bullet points that echo the names of the subheadings on your page. For clarity, it’s recommended you use the exact same copy in these links as is in the subheads further down the page.
3. Highlight each individual bullet’s text, click the Link (chain) button in your editing toolbar and type in your label preceded by a number/pound sign (e.g. #anchor-link).
4. Save the link.

Note: It is also possible to link to anchor links on other pages by using the link tool to locate the page, then adding the anchor portion to it (e.g. /node/15206#anchor)

Back to top links

For pages using anchor links, it can be helpful to have a “Back to Top” link at the end of each anchored sub-section, to allow users to return to the original list.

1. Add the words Back to Top under the anchored subsection.
2. Highlight this text and click the Link button in your editing toolbar.
3. Add #main-content into the Link URL field and Save. This will take the user to the top of the page, with the top navigation and main heading for the page showing.
   1. Alternately, if you wish to have the user jump back up to an area that isn’t quite at the top of the page, add an Anchor tag label to your first component, such as "top" and link to #top instead.

You can upload files and documents to the website. This will allow you to link to them from your web pages, and also to use those links  in emails, print pieces, etc.

1. Save your documents to your Desktop or other folder with the following naming convention:
   • lowercase-name-with-hyphens
   • If these change yearly, add the year associated with them as well, so lowercase-name-with-hyphens-2016
2. Log into Drupal and use your toolbars to either:
   • navigate to Content > Media > Add media item > Document 
   • or go the Media Library page, click Add Media in the top-right, and select Document
3. Click the Choose File button and select the document(s) from your computer
4. Once the upload is complete, click Save
5. In the media library, click on your uploaded document to open its page
6. Right-click on the file link and copy the link address (the specific wording may vary based on your browser)
7. Test out the link by pasting it in the address bar of a new browser tab or window to make sure that it works. Now you can add this link on a web page, or use the link in a document or email