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All the tools you need to make your part of olemiss.edu informative and easy to use.
A Better Olemiss.edu for the Entire UM Community
We’re happy to have your help with building the new olemiss.edu in Cascade. Because of you, our online brand is going to look better than ever.
- Olemiss.edu serves a large and diverse audience. To make sure that we put our best content out there we need to make sure that all of our editors and publishers are on the same page.
Here you’ll find everything you need to get started building pages in Cascade.
Working in Cascade
To make sure that our editors and publishers across campus are working with the same foundational knowledge, we've created two courses you must complete before you gain access to Cascade.
- Accessibility Training. Olemiss.edu should be accessible to all of our users regardless of how they navigate the web. Our accessibility training makes sure that you know of different accessibility standards (from screen readers to color contrasts) so that we reach as many users as possible.
- Cascade Training. Cascade is a unique Content Management System (CMS)—and operates very differently from Wordpress (our previous system). Cascade Training will show you the ropes with the new CMS and give you a crash course writing and publishing for the web.
Once you've completed this training, you'll request access to Cascade and get to work building out and updating your pages.
Explore Getting Started
A website is built with pages that interlink together. Your page or pages will be a part of the larger olemiss.edu, like a page in a choose-your-own-adventure book.
If you're ready to create content (and start your own adventure), here are some pages to help you out.
- Creating a Folder. Everything in the backend of Cascade is held in folders, they hold the pages and the other digital assets you'll use in your pages.
- Creating New Pages. Pages are where everything comes together for the user. Learn how to properly create pages and make sure they are in the correct folder.
Putting a page together is easy. Keeping it fresh, moving it in the asset tree, collaborating with other partners across campus? That's the hard stuff.
Don't worry, we've got everything you need to cross your t's and dot your lower case j's.
- Renaming Page and Files. A rose by any other name? Not exactly. Renaming pages and files in Cascade can have a number of cascading effects. If you need to rename things, we can walk you through the process so it all works out.
- Moving Pages and Assets. Sometimes you might realize that a page or an asset should live someplace else. Before you start moving things around, learn how to keep all the links and connections in the right place.
- Workflows and Publishing. Cascade is about collaboration. To get your page online, you'll have to push it through a workflow. When that happens a publishers may ask you to make changes or take a second look at something. Don't sweat it, it's just part of the process. Learn more about workflows and publishing.
- Consider your Audience. Olemiss.edu has a diverse audience with a wide range of needs. Make sure you're thinking about your audience and meeting them where they're at.
- Writing for the Web. Page organization should be the top of your to-do list. A disorganized page not only cause frustration, but it will also increase bounce rate (i.e., users leaving the page). Learn the best ways to design your page.
- Key Word Research and Search Engine Optimization. Optimizing your pages for search engines is another way to say that you're thinking about your audience. Learn how to anticipate their search queries to get your page at the top of organic search results and be the first one in line to help your audience.