2020.12.15 - Quick link to edit page
In the bottom footer on all SiteManager-powered dev and prod sites, the "Powered by SIteManager" link now points to the edit page within the SiteManager app to facilitate quick access to the editor.
Site Manager is constantly being updated to improve functionality, fix issues and improve the look and feel of our sites, and it's important that you are always using the latest version. Please take some time to review recent changes and make sure that you know how to stay up to date with what's going on.
In the bottom footer on all SiteManager-powered dev and prod sites, the "Powered by SIteManager" link now points to the edit page within the SiteManager app to facilitate quick access to the editor.
Until recently, the link labels in breadcrumbs were derived directly from the page path. If a page lives at /abc/def/ghi then the breadcrumb would look like:
Home / Abc / Def / Ghi
If the page at, for example, /abc/def had a name or menu label different than "Def" that name would not be reflected in the breadcrumbs. We have recently updated the breadcrumb function to show the page title or menu label for each segment of the breadcrumb to better reflect the actual names of parent pages in the navigation hierarchy. This change will enable better handling of special case capitalization as well as more descriptive page/section titles (e.g. /alumni being labeled as "Alumni & Friends").
When linking to files within the site use reletive path links. As an example instead of https://marcom.grainger.illinois.edu/blog, you would insert "/blog" into the link field. Alternatively, you can add a link to a file by:
We made some style changes to the interface to make "Preview Section Options" and "Add new section" more obvious.
When editing a Section, there are new options available from the style drop-down. Use this feature to style text headers, different font sizes, and buttons. A special note, to style text as a button, the text must contain a link.
Button styles have been added to the Toolbar in Sections on the Site Manager editor. Text must be a link for the button styles to work.
(Updated fields highlighted in yellow)
The blue [+] icon used to activate the section showcase panel that slides in from the left edge of the browser has moved down by the Page Sections heading just above the tabular listing of sections included on the page.
We've added a new step to the content creation process in Site Manager. When you click on your site, you'll land on a new page called Books. To get to your pages, just click on the "Standard Pages" item and everything should work as it did before. This update will:
Additional notes on the Edit Page interface:
This updated involved setting feature slideshows to start off transparent and then fade in after the slideshow initializes,preventing the often terrible looking rendering you see during the first half second or so before the javascript runs to make raw html be a slideshow. Essentially, we smoothed out the load sequence for large feature slider modules.
Slightly reduced size and increased weight of H2s
Updated the responsive sizing of hero images for homepage and landing pages, improving the proportions of these modules and the elements within them (h2, subtitle, button, sliders) at all desktop and mobile browser sizes.
Section menus for interior pages have been updated from the horizontal pill-style navigation to a drop down menu inside the page header. This was done to improve user experience and decrease scroll depth on interior pages. Through user testing, we found the pill-style nav to be confusing and unfamiliar; so we have updated to a more familiar and compact "In this section" drop down menu that mirrors the mobile experience. We have also moved the breadcrumbs above the page title in the header space, to more clearly indicate the user's location in the site.