These documents are meant to better familiarize you with your site - if you have any questions always reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu at any time   Drupal - A Content Management System Drupal is a content management system, similar to other widely used systems like Wordpress. Drupal is primarily used in education and government spaces because ...

Some content types allow you to schedule when it should be ‘unpublished’. An example would be our JOBS content type. It is best to consider a day lag at most from the date and time that you selected. However, this allows you to create a student job, from our job content type example, and have it automatically unpublished at a date that you know the ...

Not all content types utilize paragraphs   Paragraphs are blocks of content such as a list, images, slideshow, a view of referenced content, etc. that you may position on the page you are creating. There are ‘sidebar’ paragraphs that are specific to the sidebar region as well as standard ‘paragraphs’ which display within your content or in the case ...

Logging in Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied  Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email ad...

Logging in Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied  Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email ad...

We were able to pull ALL of the news items FROM our drupal7 site to our new website, however, concessions had to be made due to a new structure and a new set of tools at our ready when making news content. Below are notes on how to best ‘fully migrate’ / Refactor and or update an existing news item to better work on our new site. When finessing an a...

Logging in Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied  Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email ad...

The Following are basic instructions and further explanation for our content types on the CIRES website. Please review the Creating New Content Documentation to better learn how to add content in a general sense. Also note that more often than not there is helpful text below fields while editing that may require explanation of usage. Global Fields A...

Below are the phases and materials required when obtaining a website through CIRESIT.  Phase 1: Planning and Research Objective: Define the website's purpose, target audience, and goals. At this point, the stakeholders will work together with CIRES Communications to define their websites main goals, identify their content needs, and how to get their...

Logging in Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied  Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email ad...

Logging in Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied  Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email ad...

Events, News, Spotlights, Awards and Press Coverages all can display in various was on peoples profiles and different pages depending on their content type, and how they are set up.   Events & News on Landing Pages Events and News feature a field called “Display On”, which specifically works to display on landing pages. Events have an autocomple...

5 Common Crop Types There are different crop types various purposes. When uploading media, you need to select each crop, draw the bounding box over the portion of the image you wish to crop and be sure to hit save on the media pop up box. Know that if your image is too small or you didn’t fill out any required field you will have notifications at th...

Image Sizes and Drupal When uploading images to Drupal, Drupal will take the images and optimize them after initial upload. This initial optimization will do the bulk of the work to ensure that images don’t get flagged as too large when passed through Google’s ranking system. There are a few things to keep in mind that will make uploading images bet...

Alt text is used primarily for screen readers to describe images to visually impaired readers. It also appears in place of an image if the webpage fails to load for a variety of reasons. Alt text should not be used as a secondary place to have a caption. It should be succinct but descriptive. There is no hard rule on how long or short alt text shoul...

Accordion Add content within an expanding, collapsing accordion. Once you have added an accordion paragraph type, you will automatically have your first ‘Accordion Item’ added. Every Accordion item require a title, which will be what the user may select to expand the accordion and then ‘body’ which are the details therein. Accordion Options You may ...

Uploading Banner Images and Media Our new site has a great ‘Upload 1 large image and crop it multiple times’ tool. As an acronym that’d be something like Uoliacimt but we won’t use that. ever. When uploading a banner image you will want to use the largest image you got as the minimum is 1550px by 550px for the large horizontal banner, e.g.: Note tha...

Logging in Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email address, as well as your full name. While on the CU VPN, browse to “admin-cires.colorado.edu/us...

There are two ways to quickly and easily edit content on your Drupal site. The first is explained in the Content Overview documentation, where you browser through a table of existing content, find the content you wish to edit and select edit. The second is to simply browse the website, find the page or content you wish to edit and select either the ...

Our logos on the website are required to be multi path SVGs which is a complicated way to say that different sections of the vector(s) need to style-able by the website so we can make dynamic changes based on if the site is in darkmode or not. Note that not all logos require this - only logos with floating text outside of the primary logo element re...

Each site will have different role types and permissions attributed based on user need. We go out of our way to keep editing content/ adding content as streamlined as possible for you so know that if you need access to content or increased permissions you will need to contact ciresithelp@colorado.edu and we will review and grant permissions as neede...

1.) Logging in: To make updates to your content you will need to browse to the following location: ceee.colorado.edu/user 1) You will see the standard login form: 2.) Example Workflow As an example, let’s say we had needed updated on the ‘About Page’ ( https://ceee.colorado.edu/about ). To make these updates we would do the following: 1.) log into ‘...

Note not all users have the same permissions and availability to edit content. Please review the Site Roles or contact CIRES IT if you require higher permissions on your site.   Once logged in you can browse through the site within the preview area below the menu. While navigating you can then select the ‘edit’ tab at any time to edit that specific ...

The following explanation is from ‘ Tutorialspoint.com ’ but details a very throughout yet succinct write up on the difference between these two links.   For CIRES’ purposes, know that you should always utilize the ‘relative link’ ( e.g. /about ) instead of the absolute link ( e.g. https://cires.colorado.edu/about ). Always assume the website will k...

The scenario: An article is created and published outside of the intended folder A draft of the same name is created inside of the intended folder and unpublished The published article is moved inside of the folder Clicking the published article link will result in a 404 Why: Helpjuice has designated that URL to the draft already and the published a...