How to use the Page Text Manager in the Reflex Content Management System
Features of the Reflex page manager
An easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor
A clearly defined audit trail
The ability to revert back to an old page at the click of a button
A function to update title and meta tags to help improve search engine rankings
A simple method to create pages in a variety of languages
Option to preview your page at any time during its creation
The Page Text Manager within the Reflex Content Management System is an easy-to-use interface which allows users to create and update an unlimited amount of new pages for their website.
These unique features help to make our Reflex system a simple yet highly powerful content management system that can be used by anyone. Within this system, the Page Text Manager is an easy-to-use, responsive and powerful tool offering a wide range of benefits to the user. These include:
- Ability to control all the content of your own site
- No further payments relating to the update and maintenance of your site
- Ensure continuity and branding on your site
- Easy-to-use reverting system encourages user creativity and ‘trial and error’
- Enables site-owner to take complete control of site content
- Promote your site in different languages
Below is a quick guide demonstrating the simplicity and effectiveness of the Page Text Manager.
Page text manager
After entering the Page Text Manager you will see the page shown below. On the left hand side panel is a list of pages available on the site. These pages can then be selected and operations performed on them using the panel on the right hand side.
Creating a page
Click on the ‘Page Operations – Create and delete pages’ button to start your new page. You can now add the name of your new page and, if your web site supports sub-menus, you can specify them here too
What are sub menus?
Submenus are a feature used for large sites that require a large structure and has pages in it with an additional folder. For example the services section might have urls like services/overview.htm in which case the submenu added would be 'services'. They are called sub menus rather than subfolders as we have the ability to automatically add these into drop down menus if required.
When you have input the new page name, click on ‘Create New Page’ to access the WYSIWYG page editor:
The WYSIWYG Editor
As you can see, this editor is very similar to MS Word. It is highly flexible and contains features that allow you to view the HTML, upload images to the server and insert tables.
When you are happy with your page and filled in the required notes field at the bottom, just click the ‘Update Page’ button to create your page.
Editing an existing page
To edit an existing page, highlight the required page in the page directory on the left hand side of the front screen and click ‘Edit Page’:
This will access the editor again, where you can now make any changes you need and click ‘Update Page’ to confirm the changes.
Updating title and meta tags
The title and meta tags of your page play an essential role in making your site visible to search engines. These need to be specific to the content of your page so that search engines know when to display your page in their search results.
To add, or edit, the tags on your page highlight the page in the directory again and click on the ‘Page SEO – Edit title and meta tags’ button.
You will now be taken to the editing fields where you simply input the required text for your tags. You will notice this page also includes some helpful hints and tips to help you write the most efficient and effective tags possible. But if you feel unsure about any of this our Search Engine Optimisation team will always be on hand to guide you through the process:
Page history archive
When you have highlighted a specific page, the previous versions of this page will be listed below it:
You can revert back to any of these pages whenever you need to by altering the live status of the pages. The pages are listed in order of when they were created or edited. As you can see on the above example, all the pages are set as ‘live’. Your website will display the most recent ‘live’ page, which will be at the top of the list.
