Getting Started
  1. Navigation Builder
  2. Update Pages
  3. Detail Pages
  4. Formatting Text

Detail Page

Once a page has been created, a Formatted Text tool can be added to the page. This is the tool that you will use for a large majority of your Web site pages. This tool allows you to add text, links, bulleted lists, horizontal lines, graphics and other items found on a typical Web site page.

Choose Formatted Text from the tools drop-down box and click the Go button. A Formatted Text page will appear.

Use the supplied editor to enter your copy onto this page. Note: This editor works best with Internet Explorer on a Windows machine and Firefox on a MAC.

Source: Click on this button see the HTML view of your copy. More advanced Web site administrators can use this to work with the HTML code. Click this button again to go back to regular text view.

Save icon: You can click on this to save the copy entered. It is recommended that you click on the Add button at the bottom of the page instead.

Preview icon: By clicking on this, this page will open in a new
browser window.

Cut/Copy/Paste icons: These icons work the same way they do in any other program. You can also use the short cut keys of Control X, Control C and Control V.

Paste as plain text icon: Use this icon to paste text from another program without taking on any of the formatting. That is, if copy bold text from Word or another program and click on this icon, they text will appear without the bolding.

Paste from Word icon: Use this icon to paste text that is coming from Microsoft Word. This will maintain the formatting given to it in Word. If you use a normal paste instead of this icon, the text copied may be different than what you saw in Word.

Print icon: This will print the contents entered in the editor.

Undo/Redo icons: These tools do not work properly with the
current version of this editor.

Find icon: Use this to find a desired string of text.

Select All icon: Use this to select all the text in the editor.

Remove Format icon: Use this to remove all formatting from the
highlighted text.

B/I/U icons: Use these to bold, italicize or underline the highlighted text.

Strike Through/Subscript/Superscript icons: Use these to format the highlighted text accordingly.

Numbered/Bulleted List icon: Use this icon to create a bulleted or numbered list.

Indent Right/Indent Left icons: Use these to indent text to the right
or left.

Left/Center/Right/Block Justification icons: Use these icons to
specify the justification for text.

Insert/Edit Image icon: It is recommended that you do NOT use this icon. Another graphic tool is described below.

Insert/Edit Table icon: Use this to create and edit an HTML table.

Insert Horizontal Line icon: Use this to enter a horizontal line. This is helpful when separating text.

Insert Special Characters icon: Use this to enter special characters.

Text Color icon: Use this to change the color of the highlighted text.

Background Color icon: Use this to change the color behind the highlighted text.

Style drop-down: Use this to change the size of the text.

Font drop-down: Use this to change the font style of the text.

Other notes about this editor:

Graphic Upload: Each Formatted Text item can include one graphic. (If you want more than one graphic in the body of this page, you will simply add a new Formatted Text item for each graphic needed.) Click the Browse button to find the desired graphic on your computer.

When uploading the graphic, the editor will automatically resize and optimize the graphic for you. Graphics can be either small or large.

Link Graphic To: This allows you to make your uploaded graphic a hot link to a Web address. This is optional. Be sure to include the full destination Web address.

Graphic Link Type: If you choose to link your graphic to a website, you will need to choose whether the resulting page will open in a window or in the existing window.

Click the Add button at the bottom of the page to save all your text and to upload your graphic.