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Design a layout
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From Site explorer, click Layouts. Layouts appears. |
Warning: We strongly recommend that you limit full supervisor rights for Layouts to a select group of users. General users should not access layouts. Any change can affect multiple web pages. We recommend that only users knowledgeable in all areas of website design and the program perform tasks in Layouts.
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Select a layout and click Click here to edit this layout. The Layout designer screen appears. |
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In the HTML editor content area, enter the content for the layout and format its appearance. The content appears on all pages that you associate with the layout. For example, you can include your organization’s mission statement and logo to display them throughout your website. |
For information about the HTML editor, see HTML Editor.
Note: When you update a layout, it is important to include similar characteristics from the rest of your website. This provides a uniform look for your website as users move from page to page. For example, include buttons, links, images, fonts, and colors that are consistent with the rest of your site. You can use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to make most of these customizations in Style sheets. For information about style sheets, see Style Sheets.
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To add a content placeholder pane to the layout, click Content placeholder on the Insert tab in the toolbar. |
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On the screen that appears, enter a name and description to identify the pane. |
Tip: We recommend that you use a standard naming convention for your content placeholder panes. This allows you to change the layout for a web page and still retain its content. For example, if you replace the layout for a page with a layout that uses the same pane names, the content in the original layout's panes appear in the corresponding panes in the new layout. So page content in the original pane "1" would appear in the new layout's pane "1." If pane names do not match, then page content no longer appears on a web page if you replace its layout.
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Click Insert. A yellow icon appears for the content placeholder pane. |
You use these panes to insert content on templates and pages. When you create templates and web pages, you select a layout, and its content placeholder panes determine where you can insert parts. For more information, see Website Overview.
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To edit the style sheet for the layout, click Edit style sheet. The Edit style sheet screen appears. After you edit the style sheet, click Apply. The changes appear in your page design |
Warning: When you edit a style sheet, you change the style for any layouts, templates, or web pages that use it. If a layout uses the default style sheet, the Edit style sheet button does not appear because you cannot edit the default style sheet. For more information, see Style Sheets.
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Click Save. You return to Layouts. |