Training Introduction

The Authoring Environment

When you are authoring content you are working in the "authoring" environment.  You will see authoring menus and the URL will look something like this:

https://www-auth.uwrf.edu/commonspot/dashboard/index.html#mode=author&url=/CBE/Index.cfm 

(Notice the https://www-auth.uwrf.edu/ portion of the URL.)

However, the page the visitor sees is https://www.uwrf.edu/cbe/Index.cfm 

When you submit your changes to the page they are delivered from the authoring server to the production server.  When a visitor requests the page they see the latest change.

What is a Subsite?

The website is www.uwrf.edu. A subsite is the website your office or department maintains. It's the "folder" that holds the pages, documents and images. In this URL www.uwrf.edu/cbe/  , "cbe" is the subsite for the College of Business and Economics.

In this URL www.uwrf.edu/registrar/ , "registrar" is the subsite for the registrars office.

A child subsite is a subsite within a subsite like this https://www.uwrf.edu/CBE/Centers/. A child subsite has its own navigation. The navigation features a (+) plus-sign that when clicked expands the navigation menu to reveals links to the pages inside child subsite.