The External Website Pop-Up

clock August 30, 2012 18:54
You may have noticed that you now get a pop-up window when you click on an EERE link that points to a website outside of EERE. This pop-up is a new part of EERE's linking policy. EERE's always required that you spell out where a link will go in the link or the descriptive text around it. But now we've supplemented this with a pop-up window. [More]

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Update to OpenText User Guide Includes New and Updated Sections

clock April 14, 2011 16:22
The user guide to the OpenText CMS has been updated again to reflect several changes the EERE sites have seen in the past year or so: a new template, a mobile variant, and other features such as the feedback widget. The updated versionPDF of the guide is now available on the Communication Standards site, and it will be our final version of the document, due to the planned move to the Drupal platform for the EERE Centralized Web Hosting Environment. [More]

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Editing the New EERE Mobile Pages

clock January 29, 2010 12:54
All of the EERE Web sites in our OpenText content management system (CMS) now have a mobile version, and each mobile version will continue to be updated, alongside the standard version, every time you make edits to a page. But what if the mobile version of a particular page needs to have different content than the standard version? Maybe a large photo downsized, or a Flash element removed? Perhaps you want to break a large, text-heavy page down into smaller multiple pages? The steps for accessing the mobile version of a page in the CMS are easy. [More]

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CMS update: Introducing a new text editor and user guide

clock September 25, 2009 15:13
In our post on August 3rd, we told you about the results of our CMS user survey, as well as the steps we are taking to address the issues that were raised. Since then, we've made some additional improvements that we'd like to share with you—you can now choose your text editor, and we've updated the CMS user guide. [More]

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An Update on the Content Management System Survey

clock August 3, 2009 15:48
A few months ago, we asked users of EERE's content management system (CMS), as well as the EERE staff who manage the sites, to provide feedback on their experiences with the CMS. We wanted to gather information on issues such as overall satisfaction with the CMS, amount of time spent editing your sites, service provided by the EES staff, and the value of certain CMS features. Thanks to all who took the time to respond—your feedback is the best way to help us improve the CMS! [More]

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