CQ (CMS) Training
Learn how to author in the new Content Management System
Who should attend
All website administrators must be trained on the new content management system. Once your site's information architecture has been approved, you will receive information on how to register for CQ training. See Website Migration for more information on the steps that must be completed prior to attending CQ training.
New CQ user / new staff member
If you currently have a website in the CQ environment and you are a new user or new staff member, please contact Lisa MacLean at lisa.maclean@dal.ca for dates and times of upcoming training sessions. Sessions run approximately three hours and the course outline is provided below.
CQ training - course outline:
The Basics of CQ
- Tips to get started
- User accounts/logging in
- Accessing the blog/tutorials
Working with templates and pages in CQ
- Landing pages
- Subpages
- Creating pages in CQ
- Editing pages in CQ
Functions of the sidebar and sidekick
- Searching for images and digital assets in the sidebar
- Features of the sidekick
Setting page properties
- Customizing page titles
- Customizing navigation titles
- Hide page in navigation
- Add keywords and page description (for SEO)
Basics of components
- Types of components
- How to add them to a page
Using the Rich Text Editor component
- Applying text styles to subtitles, headings and subheadings
- Inserting hyperlinks and PDFs
- Linking to email addresses
- Saving, moving and deleting content
- Best practices for structuring content
- Inserting tables
Image components and the digital asset manager (DAM)
- Image sizes and formats
- Naming images
- Uploading images to the Digital Asset Manager
- Adding metadata to images
- Loading images into components
Moving, redirecting and deleting pages
- Reordering pages
- Deleting pages
- Page redirects
- Vanity URLs
Activating pages and workflows
- Activating pages
- Timed activation/deactivation
- Setting up a workflow
Versions and restoring pages
- Creating versions
- Restoring pages
