Maintaining Your Website

Enhancing Your Web Site

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Why Maintenance is Needed

• Avoid clutter-clean look
• Keep site fresh and clean
• 75 megabyte limit.

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Checking Your Storage Space

• Click on Storage Info and the space used and available will display:

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Two Tools to Maintain

• Archive Utility
• Manage Content Utility

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What does Archiving Do?

• It takes the archived page off the Home Page but does not delete it.
• You can still see the page by clicking on the Archive button in the section where it resided. See below:

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And, here is an archived page

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Using the Archive Utility

• Using Manage Content Screen, select what file you wish to archive, click on Category and you will see an Archive option, select it and click on Save

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Using the Archive Utility 1

• Using Manage Content Screen, select what file you wish to archive, click on Category

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Using the Archive Utility 2

• After you click on Category you will see an Archive option, select it and click on Save

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Managing Space by Deleting Files

• In Content Management, select the Manage Content Utility
• Select Files and Delet
• CAN NOT UNDO
• REPEAT CAN NOT UNDO
• The next two slides illustrate the process

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Call Up Manage Content Utility

• In Content Management System, select “Manage Content”

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Select and Delete

• Delete unneeded content in the resulting screen:

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Biggest Size Culprits: Photos and PDF’s

• If you are running out of space, and want to keep all your content, you will need to go to the original photos, album by album, resize them to take up less space.
• Then delete the original files and upload the resized photos.
• With PDF’s, there are tools to optimize them.

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Resizing photos

• There should be free photo editing applications on your computer. Microsoft Paint or Apple Photo will do it.
• Take a look around your computer, see what you have and get used to working with it.
• ALWAYS “SAVE AS” any reduced-sized photos. You will want your original photos in case of problems.
• Do not resize up. You loose detail and the resulting image will be blurry.
• Simple math: If you cut the dimensions of the image in half, the new version will be a quarter of the original size.

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If Original Photos Are Lost

• You have two options: selective deletion of photos from the albums; photos that add little value can e deleted. Or, delete older albums. Essentially, either ”prune” or “ cut out”.
• Do not attempt to use browser screen prints of photos from your web site. The images on screen are too degraded to upsize and repost. You will not be happy!

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Re-Sizing PDF’s

• If you have the original source file in a Microsoft or Libre Office format, you can use the “Save As PDF” option. The result may be far more size efficient. Nitro PDF and other PDF editors have an Optimize File option.
• NOTE: The file size reduction will be far smaller. Not likely to exceed 20%. It may not be worth the effort..
• And, you will need to delete the originals, then upload the new files.

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Thank you for viewing

• We hope that this series had been helpful to you.

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