Contents Linking an email address... 2 LINK AN IMAGE... 2 TO LINK TO A DOCUMENT... 3 How to update the Quick Links.... 6 Changing out a Quick link.... 9
LINKS Linking an email address Highlight the emails address (example: me@email.com) and go to the top of the page and click on Insert Then look for the world with the link under it and click on the down arrow. Select From Address. In the address field enter the email address like this: mailto:me@email.com And then click on ok. Publish the page. Link An Image To add a link to the image click in the middle of the image so that little boxes will appear around the image. Go to the top of the page and click on Insert. Look for the globe with a link under it. Click on the down arrow and select from address. The Insert Hyperlink box will appear. In the Address field either type in or copy and paste the complete hyper link (example: http://www.google.com.) Then click ok.
Go to the top of the page again and there will be three fields, URL:, Description:, Bookmark:. Enter the name of the link in the Description field. Make sure to click on the box next to the URL so that the page will open in a new window. Notice that it says Content Editor above the image that was just loaded. This can either be changed or deleted. To Link To A Document If you want to link to a document on a page the first thing you must do is upload the document. Each tab on the navigation has its own document library and image library. You need to go to the page where the link is going to be. Click on site actions, View all Site actions. Click on documents The Document Library opens. Click on Add document
When the Documents- Upload Document Dialog box opens, click on the Browse button and search your hard drive for the document that is to be uploaded. Once it is found click on the ok button. The Add document page will reappear. Go back to the page where the link is to appear and click on edit. Highlight the text that is going to link to the document, something like Click here to read article. Go to the top of the page and click on Insert. Look for the globe with the link under it and click on the down arrow. In the drop down box, click on From SharePoint. Select an Asset - - Webpage Dialog box opens, in the right-hand pane, click on Documents so that it opens to show all of the documents that have been uploaded. If another web page is needed to be linked instead of a document then after you click on insert and then click on the down arrow under the globe and the Insert/Hyperlink dialog box appears, in the address field enter the complete website address and click ok.
Click on the document so that the whole line turns blue and then click on ok. This will take you back to the page where the link is to appear. You should notice that the link is now blue because it is now linked. Go to the top of the page there are three fields: URL:, Description:, Bookmark:, The URL: is already filled in. Description: Enter the name of the document
Next to the URL is a box that says Open in new tab click on this box. The document will open in a new window. Now Publish the page. How to update the Quick Links. On the right-hand side of the home page are the Quick Links. These are links to things that chapter members should be aware of. Things like newsletters, resources, President s Message, anything that is not already on the main navigation. There are only six, if more are added it will show up below the list. To add a Quick Link, go to the home page. Click on Site Actions and then New Page In the New Page dialog box Name field type the name for the quick link. (Example President s Message. ) Click on Create A blank page will appear fill in the page with the information for the link, then publish.
Go back to the home page and click on Site Actions and then Edit Page. Go to the right side of the page and look for the Quick Links Zone Click on New Link The New Link dialog box appears. In the Title field Type the name of the link. (Example: President s Message) Scroll down to the Browse Button Click on the Browse Button. The Select an Asset window opens, click on Pages so that it opens Click on the page to be used in the quick link until the whole line turns blue Click on Ok at the bottom of the page.
A link will appear in the Link URL: field Under the Browse button there is a little box that says Open Link In new window click on this box so that the page will open in a new window. Scroll to the bottom of the box. Look for the Style Box, click on the down arrow to the right in the field and select QuickLink Now click on OK. Now Publish the page. Note: If you just want to use a link to another Web site there is no need to create a new page. You would just type the name of the Web site in the Title field. Type the URL address in the Link URL: field, click on the Open link box and make sure that the style field is QuickLink and click ok. So now there are a few links in the Quick Links. The order of the list looks off and needs to be reordered. The one at the bottom to should be on top, the one in the second spot to be on the bottom. Here is how to reorder the list. On the home page click site actions, edit page Go to the Quick Links Zone and click on Reorder. Highlight the link to be moved up or down and then at the top of the list click on Move up or Move down. Once The links are where they should be click ok. Publish the page.
Changing out a Quick link. There is no longer a need for the President s Message and should be switched out for something else. Here is what to do. Go to the Home page click on the link to be changed so that the page opens once the page opens click on Site Actions, Edit Page The page opens in edit mode. In the title section Change the title to whatever the new one will be. (Example: References) Delete the Page Content and enter the new content. Then publish the page. (Of course if there is a need to keep the President s Message for some reason then just create a new page like in the above section.) Go back to the home page click on Site actions, Edit page Go to the Quick Links Zone Look for a little pad and pencil next to the name of the links click on the one next to the link to be changed. A little drop down box will appear with Edit and Delete Click on Edit The Edit Link box will appear Change the Title: (Resources) If the same page is going to be used then do not browse for a new one. If a new page was created then browse for the new page. Make sure that the box next to Open Link In New Window is checked Make sure the Style: field at the bottom of the box shows quick link then click on OK. Note: If you just want to use a link to another Web site then you would type the name of the Web site in the Title field. Type the URL address in the Link URL: field, click on the Open link box and make sure that the style field is QuickLink and click ok.