Website Support Help
- WDN Chat Room (M-F, 8:00am - 5:00pm CT)
- Zoom Website Help Sessions (Third Tuesday of the month, 3:00pm CT)
- Giving new staff website access
Download Help Guide
- "Switching to the New Layout" (PDF 3 pages, 326KB)
- Complete Help Guide Including Switching to the New Layout" (PDF 11 pages, 1.2 MB)
Quick Guide and Tools
- Website Resources and Sample Code
- Responsive Table Generator
- Icon Factory
- How to Create an Online Form
- Map Generator
Help Videos
- Logging into a site
- Adding Content
- Editing Content
- Adding Headings
- Adding a link
- Adding Images
- Inserting a link to a document
- Navigation Menus
- Featured Promos
- Unpublishing Content
- Finding Content
- Reverting a page to an older version
- Renaming an image
- Adding an event to the calendar
- How to use the icon factory (4 minutes)
Nebraska Extension - Keeping Up
- Site Bytes – Managing Website Access (2/02/2022)
- Site Bytes – Embedding video (6/28/2021)
- Site Bytes – Images with text (5/27/2021)
- Site Bytes – Updating broken links with Web Audit (4/29/2021)
- Site Bytes – Dark Mode Update (4/15/2021)
- Site Bytes – Updating Box Links (3/19/2021)
- Site Bytes – Call to Action Buttons (3/4/2021)
- Site Bytes – Event Calendar Updates (2/18/2021)
- Site Bytes – Featured Promos (1/22/2021)
- Site Bytes – Best Practice for Images (11/11/2020)
- Site Bytes – Headings (10/29/2020)
- Site Bytes – Dark Mode (10/15/2020)
- Site Bytes – Webforms (10/1/2020)
- Site Bytes – Adding an Anchor (7/23/2020)
- Site Bytes – Google Analytics (6/25/2020)
- Site Bytes – Working with HTML (6/11/2020)
- Site Bytes – Web Audit (5/29/2020)
- Site Bytes – Sharing Events (5/14/2020)
- Site Bytes – Previewing your work (4/30/2020)
- Site Bytes – Using the Responsive Table Generator (4/16/2020)
- Site Bytes – Article Placement (4/2/2020)
- Site Bytes – Paste from Word / as Plain Text (3/19/2020)
- Site Bytes – Sticky Articles (2/20/2020)
- Site Bytes – Linking Contact Information (1/9/2020)
- Site Bytes – Renaming Images (12/19/2019)
- Site Bytes – Finding Content (12/5/2019)
- Site Bytes – Reverting a page to an older version (11/21/2019)
- Site Bytes – Article Summaries (10/17/2019)
- Site Bytes – UNL Events (10/3/2019)
- Site Bytes – Linking Documents (9/5/2019)
- Site Bytes – Unpublishing Content (9/5/2019)
- County website tutorials (7/25/2019)
- Do you have a measurement plan for your website? (2/7/2019)
- Posting video on your website (11/1/2018)
- Find out what's trending (10/18/2018)
- What are breadcrumbs on your website? (10/4/2018)
- Featured Promo Image Best Practices (9/20/2018)
- Best Practices for Internal Links (8/24/2018)
- Web Guide (7/26/2018)
- Planning your website's menu (7/12/2018)
- Tips for revamping your "About Us" page (6/28/2018)
- How to organize your website's files (6/14/2018)
- Does the order of heading tags matter? (5/31/2018)
- Think before you link? (5/17/2018)
- Do your web images have proper alt text? (4/19/2018)
- County website spring cleaning (4/5/2018)
Download Past Front Door Forum Presentations
- Adding Tables PowerPoint (4.1MB 10/6/2017)
- Content Strategy PowerPoint (3.8MB 10/6/2016)
Watch Past Webinars
- Effective Web Content Strategies (1:24:00 10/7/2016)
- Fall 2016 Updates - Home, 4-H and news feed ( 24:24 9/12/2016)
Switching to the New Layout
Before switching to the new layout, create article pages for the content you want posted in the main content area on the home page and main 4-H page. Once your site is switched to the new layout anything entered into the home page editor "Body" will not display. Instead, the home page main content area will display a news feed. The news feed automatically displays posts that link to the articles you created.
- To use the new 2016 layout, click the "Edit" tab on the home page.
- At the top of the page, check the box next to "Use new 2016 layout" then click the "Save" button.
Home Page
The following items can be updated by clicking the "Edit" tab on the home page.- Link to Facebook Page (displays in right column)
- Link to Event calendar (displays in right column)
- Related Links and Contact info (displays in grey local footer region)
After switching to the new layout, you won't be able to edit the main content area on the home page. The main content area will display a news feed.
The "Show Article Feed" and the "Stack Body and Facebook" options are not applicable when using the new 2016 layout
Home Page News Feed
Only Article pages display in the news feed. The feed displays the article title, summary and a read more link. Basic pages will not display in the feed but can be linked to in the red menu bar dropdown and grey menu box.
To add a new article, click "Add content" on the Shortcuts menu (grey bar) then click "Article". When creating an article, you have the option of entering a summary. If the "Summary" field is left blank, up-to the first 800 characters of the article body will display as the summary in the news feed.
When editing an article, you can select whether or not it will display in the home page news feed. By default, articles display in order of their publish date with the newest articles displaying first. However, you can select to make an article sticky, so that it always displays at the top of the feed, regardless of its publish date.
- Click the "Edit" tab on the article page. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Publishing options" on the left side navigation.
- Check the box next to "Sticky at top of lists" then click the "Save" button.
- Click the "Edit" tab on the article page. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Publishing options" on the left side navigation.
- Uncheck the box next to "Promoted to front page" and click the "Save" button. The article will still be available to people going to the page with a direct URL (Web address).
Change the order posts display in the news feed
- Click the "Edit" tab on the article page. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Authoring information" on the left side navigation.
- Change the "Authored on" date to an earlier or later date. Article posts display in order of their publish date with the newest articles displaying first.
4-H Page
The 4-H page feed works similar to the home page feed. To display an article in the 4-H feed, select "4-H Youth Development" on the edit article page.
Related Programs
To display an article in a related program page feed, select the name of the program on the edit article page.
Menu Bar
After switching to the new layout, the red menu bar should display Home, [County Name] 4-H, Educational Programs, and Nebraska Extension across the top.
Add pages in the dropdown menu under Home or 4-H
- Go to your home page and click on the "Group" tab on the top right.
- Click on "Menus" then click on "list links".
- Click and hold down on the move tool (looks like a cross) next to the page and drag it under Home or 4-H to where it looks indented.
- Make sure the check box under "Enabled" is checked next to the page.
- Click "Save configuration"
Notes:
- Pages with the check box checked under "Enabled" will display on the red menu bar or in the dropdown.
- You can remove a page from the menu by unchecking the "Enabled" check box.
- Do not remove educational programs and Nebraska Extension.
- Pages that are indented will display on the red menu bar in the dropdown.
- Up-to six items may display on the top red menu bar.
- Avoid listing more than six items in the red bar dropdown menu under each menu item.
Images
Recommended image sizes
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1600-1200px wide for images that stretch the width of the browser (Featured Promo usually works best cropped at a 3:1 ratio example: 1600px x 530px or 1200px x 400px)
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Minimum of 600px wide for small images (use a grid layout to make images display smaller) (updated size 10/4/2018)
Contacts
Contact Linda Tempel for help giving new staff access to edit your website.