4. Creating & Publishing Pages

Sites can consist of many different document types and through the Inter-Publish CMS The Inter-Publish Content Management System is a web publishing product oriented to maximal reuse of content in content-rich web sites. you can combine various elements to create a document type. Documents can be added to the site by creating a new instance of a document type and entering the relevant information. HTML pages are one of the most commonly used documents and the example below illustrates how to create a new HTML page and enter some page content.


Detailed instructions for Creating & Publishing Pages

1 Documents can be created from the InterPublish Home Page. From the Home Page select the document type from the New Content drop down menu and click the Create button.
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2 Enter the HTML Title and select the relevant site section.
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3 Once the new document has been created, the page information can be entered. Each page can be assigned a style sheet by clicking the Add Stylesheet button. You can change the section that the document is published in by selecting a different section from the section drop down menu. Note that not all fields are required, but more information can lead to a more meaningful page. Images can be uploaded by clicking the upload image button. The HTML content is entered into the visual text editor. Through this editor the user has the ability to style the text and page contents using styles that are defined in the attached style sheet.
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4 If extra content elements are required on the page, they can be added by clicking on the Edit Document Type button at the top of the page. Otherwise the page can be published or saved when all the required content has been entered.
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5 Once you have finished entering your page contents, you have several options when saving your work. You can save and return to menu (1st save icon), save and return to editing the current document (2nd save icon), publish the document and return to the menu (1st publish icon), publish and return to editing the document (2nd publish icon). When you save a document the changes are stored but the published file is not changed, but when a document is published, web page is re-published and updated with the new content.
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