Maintaining the East Falls Historical Society Website
The Basics
Much of the website is built of simple blocks plus patterns – templates for particular pages.
The most-used blocks are:
Paragraph – this is a sample. Once you insert a paragraph, just start typing. Each time you hit Enter, a new paragraph block will start.
Header: there are four levels of header. We use mostly H2 – the one at the top of this page, and H4, the one for the subheading at the top.
Image: Select this to insert a photo. You can upload an image from your computer, select one from the website’s Media Library, or paste in the URL of an image from elsewhere on the web. You can resize it, select whether text wraps around from the left or right, and add a caption. But the image can intrude into unrelated text below if this does (there’s a way around that, later).
Media &Text: A block with a picture to the left or right, and text to the other side. Advantages are that you can move or copy the whole package, and that the photo won’t intrude into unrelated text below. Most of the home page is built with this block.
This is a Media & Text block. The size of the photo can be adjusted. There are formatting options for text and photo placement.
Separator: The line below. If you format it “Wide Width,” it will block an image from intruding past it. More about that later.
Patterns are templates that incorporate one or more blocks, and have been formatted for a particular part of the website.
This one is called Also of Interest. It’s used widely on the home page.
Header
Text
Event is used on the Events page. It allows text to wrap around the image, without the image intruding below the event. There are also patterns for East Falls NOW columns, Oral Histories, Historic Sites, and more.
