DNN Learning Center

We have a page dedicated to covering the basics. Most of this information is recapping what you learned in your training session. You can learn how to do most of the common functions that will need to learn in order to successfully manage your website.

If you have not had any training, you are strongly encouraged to schedule your training session for your website. Learning how to use the tools the website has to offer you can dramatically increase your understanding of how to make your website work for you.

You can add a page a couple different ways, but the easiest way to add a page is to hover over the pages tab in your admin toolbar at the top of the website while you are logged in as an admin. Then a dialog box will appear. In the actions menu at the top of the box you click "add". Your add page dialog box will then appear. You can then fill out the information needed for the page. The only piece of information that is required is the page name. Click "add page" and your page will be created and you will be redirected to that page.

You can add a hyperlink to text, images, documents, files, or to external websites. When you login to the website as an admin, open the editor by selecting "edit content". You have a hyperlink manager in the editor, and the icon in the toolbar at the top looks like a chain link. Highlight the section of the page that you would like to make a link, and click the chain link icon.

You will see a dialog box pop and you will have several options on how to add this link. You have the option to link to a page on your site. You have an option of linking to an external website or resource. You also have the option of linking to a document in the document manager.

When you create a page, you will have some options available to you to specify where you want the page to exist. You have an option called "parent page". This option will be a drop down list with all of the site pages in it. You can select which page the current page that you are creating will exist under. If you would like the page to be on the top level of navigation, then you choose "none specified". If you would like the page to exist underneath another page, just choose that page.

You also have control over the exact location of the page that you are creating. The Insert Page function lets you place the page before, after, or to the end of a set of pages. Finally, you have the option to show to the page in the menu or not. So, you could create and place a page on the top level of navigation, but not include it in the menu.

Yes, you have the option when you are creating a page to copy any page. This option will give you a list of the modules that exist in any page that you select. When you select the page, you can select any module on that page and you will have some options on how to replicate it.

You can also copy individual modules so you don’t have to recreate the same module over and over. You do this by hovering over "modules" in the admin tool bar at the top while logged in as an admin. Choose "add existing module". Choose the page that the module that you want to copy resides on. Then choose the module out of the list of the module list. Then select what pane you want to inject the module in. If you would like to have a copy of the module, select the check-box. If you would like a reference of the module, then leave it deselected.

Yes, you can accomplish this by creating and assigning roles to individual users. You can also create role groups and group by user role.

Click on "admin" while you are logged into the site as an admin. You will be taken to the admin page. There you will see an icon for "security roles". Click on it and you will be taken to the security roles of the admin section. Hover over the "manage" button. You will see the option to "add new role", or "add new role group".

If you accidentally delete a page, or a module you can go into the Recycle Bin and restore your page, or module. When you restore it, it will appear back in the section that it was deleted from. You can go back and continue to edit just as before. While logged into the site, you can click on "admin" in the toolbar at the top. On the admin page, you will find an icon that is entitled Recycle Bin. Click on it, choose page or module, find your page or module, and you can restore it.

WYSIWYG stands for "What You See is What You Get". Basically, it works much like Microsoft Word or similar word processing software. It is very useful in helping people manage, edit, and update the pages of their website quickly by seeing the changes instantly right on their monitors.

You can see on the screen how the page will look when you are finished. You can add text, images, documents, and hyperlinks. You can add styles to the font and change how the text will look by adding inline styles right to your content.