I want to create a new page via Contribute. Where do I start?

1. Open Contribute on your computer.
2. Navigate to a page that you would like your new page to look like. For example, if you have a banner image at the top of your website that says "Department of History," and you want your new page to say "Department of History," go to the page that best represents what you would like to create.
3. Click "New Page" in the upper left-hand corner of your screen.
4. A new window will appear that says "New Web Page or Blog Entry." The window will list a "Blank Page," "Copy of Current Page," and a list of templates that are on your website. Click "Copy of Current Page."
5. At the bottom right side of the screen, Contribute prompts you to name the page. Name the page one or two words, all lowercase. If the page title is two words, please separate the words with hyphens instead of spaces or underlines (e.g. faculty-accomplishments, student-resources, our-mission). Once you've named the page, click "OK."
6. A new page will appear that is an exact duplicate of the page you copied. The other page still exists exactly as it was and your new page is now titled whatever you named it. Proceed with deleting the old content from the page and replacing it with the new content. If you are copying and pasting content that you have already written in a Microsoft Word document, save your Microsoft Word document as "plain text," close the document, and then re-open it and then copy the content into your website. This is one of the most important rules to remember whne adding content to your website. If you do not do this, you will bring HTML coding from your Microsoft Word document into your website, which will make editing your website extremely difficult.
7. Once you are done adding content, you will click "Publish." Contribute will show you a new window that says your web page will be published, but noone can find your webpage until you create a link to it. Do you want to proceed? Click "Yes."
8. A new window will appear with the name of the new page that you have created and it will ask you where you want this page to live on your website. Next to this message is a "Choose" button. Click the "Choose" button. Here you will tell the page whethere you want it to remain a single page or if you want the page to be a part of a folder of pages on a related topic. Once you've chosen the location for the page to live, click the "select" button at the bottom of the window and then click "OK."
9. You have now created a new page and saved it on the Loyola server, but the page is not visible to your website's user until you create a link to it from either your website's navigation or from the content within your website. Learn more about creating links.

How do I change the fonts on my new page?

1. Once you've created your new page, use the dropdown menu at the top of the screen next to the word "Fonts" to edit the formatting of the content on your page. There are three dropdowns: "Normal," "Arial," and a dropdown that controls font size. You should only use the dropdown menu that says "Normal."
2. All of the fonts that you need for your website have been pre-programmed into your website template in the "Normal" dropdown menu. The other two dropdown menus override the pre-programmed settings. You should avoid this as it will cause problems in editing your website.
3. In the "Normal" dropdown menu, there are listings for headings on your page in the order of importance that they should be presented. For example, Heading 1 should always be at the top of your web page as it is the largest font setting and thus should identify the most important content. Heading 2 is for identifying the second most important content on a page and so on and so forth. When you want text to be a normal paragraph font, set the font to "Normal," which is the default setting.

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