Site Menu and Contacts

This transcript document is associated with the fith video, "Site Menu and Contacts", in the Using Omni CMS Udemy course.

There are a couple things that we can talk about before we move on to assets related to your site. So you do have control over the site menu on your site and also this contacts block. On your site you don't really have control over their structure but you do have a lot of control over their content. So let's go take a look at that. So on your site if you navigate to the root of your site, the base of your site, which you can do from the home button, you should have an includes folder and that should have. some number of files in there, probably contacts and site menu, possibly other things but definitely a contacts and a site menu file. The site menu if we look at that, this is going to be just a link structure of the site menu that you have, or just a basically a nested bulleted list. So we can see in this case we have this web resources guide, technology support training, short course survey and then example menu. Example menu has a couple sub items which the last one there has their own sub items so it's kind of like lists within a list. If we look back on our website, that's exactly our menu structure. We have web resources guide, technology support training, short course survey, the example menu item if I open it, it has three sub menus and then the last one has three sub menus. I don't think you can go farther down the tree than just this third level but that's how you would edit. If you need to edit your menu, this is where you would go to do that. So opening up the site menu file and making these edits to these links as you need. Kind of again, not every page on your site should be linked to in your menu, but your most important pages should be there, and then find ways to link between them. Every site should have a couple links to it in case someone misses one door, they find another one that they can get to your page but you can edit these from here. A lot of people get confused with, well this is where I go to make a page but ideally you should make your page, get its content how you would want it, get all of that set up and square it away and then once it's ready then you start linking to it because once you start linking to it, that's telling users, hey go to this page and start working on it. So it's kind of the last thing you do. It's like opening up a bakery. You get all the bakery stuff set up first and then you put your ads on social media and say hey everyone come check us out kind of thing.

If I look at the contacts menu, so I'm going to go to that contacts page. Here I'm going to edit with the multi edit button and again we can see more of like a form that we fill out. So we have our address field, phone number, email address. If your email address says webmaster@ttu.edu please update it to a relevant contact info for your department, or honestly if your department doesn't have this email field, if you can find an email address that would work as a contact that would definitely help out users getting help and support when they go to your page. Next is basically just a bunch of social media links that you can have in here. Facebook, Twitter, or X, Foursquare, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest. These are the ones we currently have in here. These may change and differ as the years go on. But if you have links to those social accounts you can put them in and they would be shown with their relevant icons in this section here. So that's basically just letting users go find you on other places that you exist. So those are kind of two other pages that you would edit, your site menu and your contacts files in the "Includes" folder of your site.