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Country Communication Pages

Lesson 4: Customizing the Website

Lesson 4

There are a few ways you can customize your country communication website. In this lesson, you will learn

how to:

Create other pages, such as a landing page and video gallery.

Create forms, such as a contact us, feedback, and story submission form.

Check links, edit pages, and archive teasers on a page.

View statistics for a page.

Contents

Understanding Landing Pages ....................................................................................................................... 1 Creating Landing Pages ................................................................................................................................ 2

Creating a Video Gallery .............................................................................................................................. 5 Creating Forms ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Editing Pages .............................................................................................................................................. 13 Archiving Teasers ....................................................................................................................................... 14

Viewing Omniture Statistics ....................................................................................................................... 15

Understanding Landing Pages You can customize your country communication page by creating landing pages. A landing page contains

teasers that link to articles or other web pages related to a specific topic. For example, the two landing pages

below are about special topics: On the left, is a page the Central America Area created for youth. This page

links to the youth websites on LDS.org as well as to articles for youth. On the right is a page the Mexico

Area created for Church history in Mexico. It links to articles about early pioneers, manuals for teaching

Church history, and tips for writing personal histories.




The Central America Area also created a landing page for

locations. Instead of the regular Locations page, the area uses

this page, which provides links to the Locations page for each

country in the area.

Creating Landing Pages

1. In LDS Publisher, click the top left

corner to open the menu, and select

New Page from Template.

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2. Select the locale, if needed.

3. From the Template list, select

Landing Page.

Note: You can also create a locations

page and list of sites page (similar to

the Church Websites page).

4. Enter a relative path. This becomes

the last part of the URL for this page.

Usually it begins with a slash (/) and is

followed by the title of the page, such

as: /getting-started-with-family-history.

Follow URL standards; do not use

commas or spaces. Instead of spaces,

use hyphens between words.

5. Click Save.

6. At the top right corner, click the

Edit button to open the menu, and

select Add Landing Page Feature.

7. Similar to creating a teaser, add the

headline (or link title), URL address,

search for an image, and add the alt

text.

8. Click Save. Then click Done.

Note: If you leave the URL field

blank, this section becomes a title and

picture only at the top of the page.

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9. Below the large picture, click the

Edit button to open the menu, and

select Add Teaser.

10. Add the information for the teaser:

link title, URL, sequence number,

image, image alt text, and description

text.


Note: You can add as many teasers as

you need. However, it is best to have

six or fewer teasers so the page does

not get too long.

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12. Add a link on the Home page to

direct users to your new landing page.

You can:

Add a link to the Area Links

section of the right sidebar.

Add a teaser.

When creating the link, use the path

you created for your landing page as

the URL. (In our example, we used:

/getting-started-with-family-history.)

Creating a Video Gallery

You can create a page that displays several videos (a video gallery).

1. Click the top left corner to open the

menu, and select New Page from

Template.


3. From the Template list, select Video

Gallery.





as: /youth-activities. Follow URL

standards; do not use commas or

spaces. Instead of spaces, use hyphens

between words.

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5. Click Save.

6. At the top right corner, click the Edit

button to open the menu, and select

Add Video Gallery.

7. Add a title for the page.

8. To add videos, click the following

for each video you want to add:

To add a new video, click

Upload New.

To search for an existing video,

click Add Existing. This action

searches for videos previously

added to this website.

9. For a new video, enter the title,

description, and sequence number, and

search for an image to go with the

video.

10. For a Brightcove video, enter the

following information:

Brightcove (Video) ID

Brightcove Player ID

Brightcove Player Key

11. For a YouTube video, enter the

YouTube ID. From the YouTube URL,

copy the part after “watch?v=.” For

example, for the YouTube URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9n

UOCJ8rcU, use P9nUOCJ8rcU as the

YouTube ID.

12. Select the video type, and add the

video length in minutes and seconds,

separated by a colon, such as 2:30.

13. To include a download version of

the video, click Add, and enter the

URL, size, and title (label).

14. At the bottom, click Save.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nUOCJ8rcU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nUOCJ8rcU




15. To add an existing video, enter the

title of the video, and click the Search

button.

16. Click the circle with the plus sign

(+) to add the video, and then click

Done.

17. When you have added all the

videos for the gallery, at the top click

Save. Then click Done.

18. To preview the page, click ICE to

turn the edit buttons off, and refresh the

page (press F5).

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The video gallery has a viewer at the

top. Click a video below the viewer to

watch it.

Creating Forms

You can create forms which will allow a user to fill-in some information and send the information in an

email.

1. To create a form, click the top left

corner to open the menu, and select

New Page from Template.


Contact Us

3. From the Template list, select

Contact Us.





as: /contact-us. Follow URL standards;

do not use commas or spaces. Instead

of spaces, use hyphens between words.

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5. Click Save.

Note: An example of the contact us

form is displayed.

6. At the top right, click the Edit


Add Contact Us Teaser.

7. For the teaser text, fill in a title or

instructions for the form. This appears

at the top of the form.

8. Add the area email address, or the

address where you want the

completed form sent to.

Note: If desired, you can enter a

default name and subject for the

email.

9. Enter the text for the success (email

sent) message, failure (email not sent)

message, or additional (other)

message.


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11. Click the top left corner to open

the menu, and select Edit Hidden

Text.

12. Add the following information:

SEO Title: Add the title that

will display in search engines.

Meta Description: Add a short

sentence about this form. This

description displays on a

Google search result.

-contact-usPageTitle: Add a

page title, such as Contact Us.

-contact-usMetaKeywords:

Add words that describe the

content of this page.

contactUs-submit: Change the

wording for the Submit button

on the page, if desired.

13. At the bottom of the page, click

Save.

14. When you are satisfied with the

contact us form, click the Edit button

to open the menu, and select Publish.

15. To add a link to the contact us

form, click Home to return to the

Home page.

16. On the right-side, click the Edit

button for the Contact Us module, and

select Edit Contact Us Links.

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17. Edit the URL and title, or click

Add to add a contact us link.


Feedback Form

19. On the New Page from Template

page, from the Template list, select

Feedback Form.





as: /feedback-article. Follow URL



between words.

Note: An example of the feedback

form is displayed.



Add Feedback Teaser.

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22. Enter the information in the

available fields, similar to the contact

us form.


24. Edit the hidden text and publish

the form, similar to the contact us

form.

25. Also similar to the contact us

form, add a link to the feedback form.

You can add the link on a page, or you

can add the link to an article if you

want feedback about a particular

article.

Story Submission Form

26. On the New Page from Template

page, from the Template list, select

Story Submission Form.





as: /story-submission. Follow URL



between words.

Note: An example of the story

submission form is displayed.



Add Story Teaser.

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29. Enter the information in the

available fields, similar to the contact

us form.


31. Edit the hidden text and publish

the form, similar to the contact us

form.

32. Also similar to the contact us

form, add a link to the story

submission form.

Editing Pages

When editing pages, you can check links or publish and unpublish items on a page.

1. To check for broken links on a page,

at the top, click the Link button, and

then click Start Checking.

2. When the program is done checking

links, click an item, such as broken

links, to view where they are. The

broken links will be highlighted in the

same color as on the checker.

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3. To publish and unpublish items on a

page, click the top left corner to open

the menu, and select Page Editor.

Note: All the items on the page will be

displayed with their status.

4. To publish or unpublish an item,

click the check box for the item, and

then click Publish or Unpublish.

5. To delete an item, click the Delete

( ) button. This deletes it from the

system.

6. To download a report for the

selected items, click the Download

( ) button.

Archiving Teasers

When a teaser is no longer needed on the Home page, you can remove it. It will still be available on the

Archive page.

1. On the Home page, click the Edit

button next to a teaser to open the

menu, and then select Remove from

Homepage.

2. On the confirmation message, click

OK.

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3. If you want to place a teaser back on

the Home page, on the Archive page,

click the Edit button to open the menu,

and select Show on Homepage.

4. On the confirmation message, click

OK.

Viewing Omniture Statistics

You can view statistics about page views, visits, single access, and average time spent on a page over

various time periods.

1. Click the top left corner to open the

menu, and select View Omniture

Stats.

2. To view the statistics for various

time periods, click a button above, such

as “30 days.”

3. To view various statistics, click an

item below, such as “Visits.”

4. To close the window, click the x in

the upper right corner.

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