Editing Content

In this intro to the course we will talk about what you can expect to learn along the way.

In this lesson we will learn how to access and login to your websites dashboard. If you don’t have your credentials to login, reach out to support@heightencreative.com

Recommended 2FA Apps

• Step2 (Mac Only)
• Google Authenticator
• Authy
• Bitwarden

In this lesson we give a brief overview of your websites dashboard. You’ll learn how to navigate the dashboard and update your email / profile.

In this lesson we will go over the page details area of the dashboard. After this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Accessing and viewing page details
• Change the page’s visibility
• Understand the different settings
  • Which ones to change
  • Which ones to leave alone

In this lesson we dive into how to actually edit content on your site. After watching this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Opening the Breakdance editor
• Navigating the editor
• Understand different type of content and what options they come with
• Making edits and undoing edits
• Saving / Publishing changes

We call this out in the lesson, but as another reminder, DO NOT use the markup tool while in the editor mode. Any commits you make in edit mode will be lost after exiting the edit mode. If you are editing a page and run into something you need us to change and want to make a comment, go to the live page if you are logged in or use the Markup link for your site and make comments there. 

In this lesson we will go over how to add and edit existing dynamic content on the you website. Every website’s dynamic content looks a little different, but at the end of this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Viewing different types of dynamic content (Blogs, Portfolios, etc)
• Editing existing content
• Adding new content

This lesson assumes you already have watched the Page Details Lesson. If you missed that one make sure to go back and watch that lesson first.

Note:

I say at the end of the video the next tutorial will be covering analytics, but we decided to do a few more videos on different types of dynamic content. The next few lessons are optional, but may be helpful depending on your specific website setup. If you don’t need the next 3 lessons, by all means skip to the course on Analytics 😉

In this lesson we discuss another typer of dynamic content you may encounter on your site. If you have a staff section, a menu, or some other type of listed content, odds are you have a repeater field and will need to watch this lesson to know how to make edits and update content. After watching this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Knowing when you encounter a repeater field
• Navigating to the repeater field section in page settings
• Editing repeater field content
• Adding and deleting repeater field content.

This lesson is exclusively for churches. If you aren’t a church skip this lesson. If you are a church, then this lesson will cover how to add, edit, and manage all aspects of your online sermon archive.  After completing this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Navigating the sermon section of your dashboard
• Adding, editing, and deleting sermons
• Adding and editing teachers, series, topics, and books

This is another lesson covering dynamic content. If you already feel comfortable using dynamic content from previous lessons, feel free to skip this one. In this lesson we will go over another example of from a real estate site where they use dynamic content to localize listings. If you have a real estate site or a short term rental site, or just want another example of dynamic content this lesson is for you.

In this lesson we go over how to view basic analytics about your site via the dashboard. After this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Navigating to the analytics section of the dashboard
• Viewing analytics and metrics about your site’s visitors
• Seeing who is looking at your site, where they are coming from, and what they are looking at

We mention at the end of this lesson our Advanced Analytics Add-on. You can check the current pricing and learn more at heightencreative.com/websites

In this lesson give a quick overview of the media library, how to upload images and PDF’s and the importance of Alt Text and image optimization. DO NOT skip this lesson. If you don’t understand the concepts covered in this video, your site will become slow, your SEO scores will suffer, and your site will be less accessible to this with vision impairments.  After watching this lesson you should feel comfortable:

• Navigating the media library
• Adding and managing ALT Text
• Uploading media
• Understand the importance of image optimization

Our Recommended Image Optimization Tools

1. Optimage | Mac Only | Free for up to 24 images a day or $15 one time purchase
2. Squash | Mac Only | $49/ year
3. Squoosh | Online | Free
4. ShortPixel | Online | Free

Make sure that when you are optimizing images you choose the .webP format NOT .jpg

Thanks for sticking with us through this course on editing your website! If you have any questions or need help email us at: support@heightencreative.com