Tips, Tricks & Training
Check out our training pages for tips, tricks, and how-to's that include short, very useful videos and simple text guides to answer many of your questions.
Please visit the Web Author Community Forum if you have suggestions on which videos or how to's that you would like to see.
While this section of the site will help you with "how" to work in dotCMS, please also check the
Best Practices section for information on "when" it's recommended to use some of these features and the Layouts & Style Guides section for examples.
In the dotCMS Basics section...
In this section...
- Logging in
- Publishing pages and content
- How to publish a page
- How to publish page content
- Unublishing, removing and archiving content and pages
- How to unpublish a page
- How to unpublish page content
- How to remove page content
- How to archive page content
- How to archive a page
- Working with folders
- How to create a new folder
- How to create a new page
- How to duplicate a page or folder
- How to move a folder
- How to move a page
In the Web Page Content section...
In this section...
- How to Add New Page Content
- From the Website Browser tab
- From the Content Tab
- Add existing items
- How to edit a Web Page Content item
- From the Website Browser tab
- From the Content tab
- How to edit text in the WYSIWYG
- How to use links in the WYSIWYG
- Creating internal links to your own pages
- Creating internal links to other pages on the CC site
- Creating external links
- Editing existing links
- How to use images
- How to create lists
- How to work with tables
- Creating a table
- Add a row or column
- Delete a row or column
- Adjust cellpadding and cellspacing
- Wrap text around a table
- Set height and width of a table
- Set border width and color of a table
- Create a heading row
- Edit the background color of rows
- Align the text in a row
- Set the height of a row
- Create a heading column
- Adjust column and cell width and height
- Set border color in a column or cell
- Align text in a column or cell
- How to find and/or replace text
In the images section...
In this section...
- How to upload an image
- Uploading to a folder
- Uploading multiple images to a folder
- Uploading from the WYSIWYG
- Uploading to a "CC - Photo Image" content item
- How to add an image to a page
- Images in the WYSIWYG
- Using the "CC - Photo/Image" content item
- How to replace an image
- Replacing an image from the WYSIWYG
- Replacing an image in the "CC - Photo/Image" content item
- How to style an image
- Adding a photo frame with a drop shadow
- Adding a border
- Creating a Lightbox
- How to format an image
- Adding padding around an image
- Aligning an image
- Re-sizing an image
In the documents section...
In this section...
- How to upload a document
- Uploading to a folder
- Uploading multiple documents to a folder
- Uploading from the WYSIWYG
- How to link to a document
- How to replace a document
- Replacing linked documents from the WYSIWYG
- Replacing documents in a folder