ARCOS Website Training

This text focuses primarily on putting your content on your regional home page, where the bulk of your work will be. Keeping content on the homepage will keep things simple for you and it will make it easy for your audience to immediately see what information you deem most important.

Login page: The url is https://cms.bbyo.org/login.pl.

Lets update your homepage.

Go to Stories -> Find Stories

All regional content is in the bbyo.org/region folder.

Select your homepage. The url will look like:

bbyo.org/region/your_region_name/

Click Edit.

On the home page, your new content will go in the Intro section.

Click the Edit button above Intro Section (Should be #4 container on the page, see image below).

You can edit one of the existing paragraph boxes or you can add a new one if you need to.

To edit an existing paragraph box, you can:

1. Click the button to the right (bold, italics, underline). Then the box will operate like Word.

2. Click your mouse in the box and start typing, or cut and paste content into the box.

Hyperlinking Text

Create a hyperlink by highlighting the desired text and clicking the little chain icon. A little Insert/Edit window will pop up. NOTE: You must know the URL you are using beforehand. Cut and paste into your into Notepad for safe keeping.

Then just paste it in to the Link URL box.

The Homepage Ads

The regional homepage ads are set up to be global in nature and are the same across all regional websites. So you dont have to do anything to them. If you have an event you would like to highlight through the ads, contact the marketing department so the details of your unique ad can be worked out.

The Chapter, Regional, and International Events feeds

The Chapter, Regional, and International Events feeds are populated by posts made on the Dashboard and b-linked. An RSS feed then populates the home page. All this is pre-built, so dont have to worry about editing them. All you need to do is republish your homepage to have your new posts show up. Your homepage MUST be republished to have new Dashboard and b-linked events appear.

See the image below. After you have entered a new event into the Dashboard or b-linked, go to ARCOS and find your regional homepage, and click the checkbox all the way to the right. And just click Publish.

Staff Section on Homepage

All the staff sections are laid out the same, so these directions should be consistent for all the regional sites.

To Edit the Staff Section:

Find your home page. Click Edit.

Go to row number 12. It is the bottom container. It should be named bottom row, but it may be named something else. Click Edit.

You will be taken to a new screen. Look for row 5. It is named Staff List. Click Edit.

You will be taken to a new screen. Now look for row 6. It is named Staff List. Click Edit.

Click the little square button to the right (bold, italics, underline, hyperlink).

Edit your text as you would in MS Word.

To Edit the Photo Gallery:

Clicking the image on your homepage with take you to your Photo Gallery.

Adding images to your page:

Adding an image to your page is done the same way you add a paragraph. You select Image from the dropdown menu and click Add Element.

You will be presented with this screen:

The user is concerned with the following fields:

Media: Select an image that has already been uploaded to ARCOS with Find Media or upload it yourself from your computer with the Browse button.

Alignment: If you want text to wrap to the left or right of your image, use this dropdown.

Alt text: This is descriptive text for the image. This is used by screen readers for people who are visually impaired.

OPTIONAL FIELDS

There is also a pull down menu that has options. You will be most concerned with the following:

URL: Click your image to go to whatever URL you designate.

Height and Width: The dimensions of your image. In the current BBYO setup, go with a MAXIMUM image width of 620 pixels.

Once you have your image ready with whatever information you deem necessary, click Done with Image or Article to go back to the EDIT STORY section. Now your image is part of your web page. You can choose to reorder your page with the numbers on the left so you can put the image where you want on the page.

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