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Author Archives: Joe Mann
Editing Pages: Overview
For more, see the Documentation and Videos pages.
Introduction to WordPress
WordPress is the content management system (CMS) that runs the Augsburg College website. This video will show you around the administrator area of WordPress. I recommend you log into the website and look around as you follow the video. After that, see more tutorials on the Documentation and Videos pages.
How to Create a Photo Gallery
A-mail: a lesson in headline optimization
Headlines are important. They tell me whether or not a section of a web page might interest me. I’ve been noticing some less-than-grabbing headlines on A-mail lately, so I thought A-mail would make a good case study in good headlines versus bad ones. Continue reading
Visual Editor vs Text Editor
When you are using WordPress, you are probably used to seeing this by default:
The Visual Editor
This is called the Visual editor. Notice how there are two tabs at the top right of the text box and the one labeled “Visual” is selected. The Visual editor is called that because it shows you an approximation of what the page will actually look like on the website. Headings look like headings, you can see each image and its size, etc. You use this to do most of your editing on the site. But there is another option Continue reading
Login problems
If you are having problems logging into your website on www.augsburg.edu or inside.augsburg.edu, see my post about how to log in and follow those instructions exactly. Continue reading
Gmail Pro Tips
I meant to write this a long time ago when Augsburg finished transferring to Google Mail email service. But let’s forget the fact that I’m coming a little late to the party and embrace the fact that I showed up at all.
Here are a few tips that will make your Gmail experience all it can be. Continue reading
Sidebar / Widgets
The area on the right side of your website that contains your website’s menu and other content is called the Sidebar. The part of your sidebar below your website’s menu is a Widget area. You can manage this area by going to the Widgets admin screen on your website. Continue reading
When people actually read
“Help users save time by focusing their scanning eyes on information that they actually want to read.” – Jakob Nielsen
A post from Jakob Nielsen’s blog, Website Reading: It (Sometimes) Does Happen, describes what makes web users stop scanning and start reading.
He starts with what we know: Continue reading