3. Edit Your Page

How to edit a page:
1. Log on to Trillium
2. if you log on with the secret button, you will find that your page is in edit mode and you can select and edit any available text block.
3. if you log in through the log in page, find the page that needs editing, and select "edit page."
4. your page is now in "edit mode"

Anatomy of a Trillium Page in "Edit" Mode

View diagram: Trillium Page in "Edit " mode.

About Content Blocks

Trillium pages are built with "content blocks."
In edit mode, each content block is preceeded by a set of edit buttons. Each set of buttons refers to the block of content directly below.

rmv = remove content block
ins = insert new block
arrow up/down = move content block up or down in queue
edit = edit existing block

You can edit blocks in the white content area and in the shaded sidebar (if you are using a sidebar template). The lefthand navigtion menu must be hand-edited by PubCom's web communications team. Contact your Web Communications Consultant for more details.

Types of Content Blocks

1. Headline

HTML headlines are hierarchical. Use the dropdown to select headline size. Headline size "1" (also known as "h1") is the top level headline, "2" is a first subhead, and so on.

Headlines should never be used for anything but headlines. They should not be used in place of boldface text, and they should not be made into links.

2. Text

Text blocks offer several options: you can select a plain text block, text block with a headline, or text block with photo left- or right- aligned with or without a headline.

The text block option reads every line break as a paragraph marker. When using text blocks, avoid doublespacing text, and understand that every single-spaced line break will generally be iterpreted by browsers as a double-space.

If you need lines broken with a single space, you can use the break tag
or select the "address block" option.

3. Address Block

The address block reads line breaks single-spaced line breaks. It works great for short, single spaced lines, such as addresses.


4. Image

Images can be added as part of a text block (above), or as stand alone images using the image block.

5. Stand-alone Link

If you don't feel comfortable typing in HMTL link tags, you can use the "stand alone link" block. Type the url starting with 'http' in the url box, and the text for the link in the text box.

6. List of Items

Select "bullet list" or "numbered list." you can switch from one to another as needed. Don't worry too much about how many items will be on the list; you can always add more later, and empty list items are automatically deleted.

If you know how to create a link with html, you can make list items into links.

7. Table

This is for tabular data. You can select or change options such as border/no border or how much cellpadding. Cellpadding is the area between the content and the border. For a table containing text info, try a cellpadding of 3-5.

8. Existing Content Block

Every content block used on your Trillium site is found here. If there's a list of links or block of text you want to use on more than one page, just create it once and then you can insert it on any of your pages by selecting it from the Existing Content Block list.

9. Advanced Users Only: HTML Code

There are times when the options offered by Trillium are insufficient for a task at hand. If you know how to use HTML, you can select this option.

Many, but not all, HTML tags are permitted by Trillium. Please only use this option if you are an advanced enough user to troubleshoot any problems that occur. A misplaced or missing html tag can wreck havoc on the entire page, or worse, it can wreck the page on some browsers but not on others.

When using html, be sure to check your page display on different systems and different browsers. And when in doubt, call on a Web consultant.