Exercise # 3: Editing Your Page

1. Open your newly created page
2. Click the "Edit" tab
3. Change some of your text and click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.
4. Click the "Edit" tab again. Highlight a word in your text and click the "insert link" button (chain link icon). This opens up a dialog box.
5. Click the "External" radio button and type in www.ucsc.edu after the https://
6. Insert title of the link: "UCSC Home Page"
7. Click "Insert". This closes the window
8. Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.

Inserting a "Mail To" Link

1. Click the "Edit" tab again.
2. Highlight a word in your text and click the "Insert link" button (chain link icon). This opens up a dialog box
3. Click the "External" radio button, delete the "https://" and type in "mailto:xxxxx@ucsc.edu"
4. Click "Insert"
5. Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.

Inserting a Banner Image

1. Click the "Edit" tab
2. Go to the Banner Image box and click the browse button icon. This opens a window. Browse to "images" --> "sample-images-for-training" --> "left-nav-page-banners" and select an image
3. Click "Confirm"
4. Enter a Banner Image Caption and Alt Text (required for all images)
5. Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.

Inserting an Image Using the WYSIWYG Editor

1. Click the "Edit" tab. 
2. Go to the Main Content box.
3. Position cursor where you want to insert an image and click the "Insert/edit image" button (little tree). This will open a dialog box.
4. Browse to "sample-images-for-training" --> "wysiwyg-images" and select an image
5. Type in an alternate text (required for all images) and Click "Insert"
6. Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.

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