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Manage static pages

In AtoM, static pages are pages that are designed to look the same each time they are accessed; this is in contrast to dynamic pages, which can vary according to your network or institution and according to the content that is uploaded into AtoM. Examples of dynamic pages include: search results pages; view pages; and edit pages. By default, AtoM has three static pages at installation: the Home page, the About page, and a Privacy Policy page.

A default welcome message appears on the Home page when first logging into AtoM.

An image of the Home page

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The About page provides additional information about the application and the project. To access the About page, click on the info Quick links menu in the main menu located in the header bar and select “About”.

An image of the About page

The Privacy Policy page (also accessible via the info Quick links menu) was designed to assist site administrators in complying with proactive privacy policy disclosure regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires that any information collected about a user through the use of a website must be disclosed to the user in advance, with the option to opt out and/or leave the site. It includes basic information on AtoM’s data collection abilities and intents, and can be used in conjunction with AtoM’s customizable Privacy notification banner - for more information, see:

An image of the default Privacy Policy static page in AtoM

For more information on navigating in AtoM, see Access content.

All static pages in AtoM, including the three default static pages described above, can be customized by logged-in administrators via the user interface. New static pages can also be created, and all static pages (except the home page) can be deleted from the application.

Below are instructions on how to edit and add static pages in AtoM:

Note

Static pages can only be edited and added by an authenticated (i.e. logged-in) administrator. For more information on user permissions, see Edit permissions.

Static pages and security configuration

As of version 2.2, AtoM now has advanced configuration settings that will allow a system administrator to enable htmlpurifier on static pages. htmlpurifier is:

…a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant, something only achievable with a comprehensive knowledge of W3C’s specifications.

By default, htmlpurifier is not turned on in AtoM, to allow a broad use of HTML and inline CSS on static pages. System administrators interested in enabling all possible security settings and mitigating the risk of XSS-based attack vectors can enable the library by altering the config/app.yml file. For more information, see:

When the configuration is set to true, htmlpurifier will limit the available html elements to the following:

Tags allowed

'div', 'span', 'p',
'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6',
'strong', 'em',
'abbr[title]', 'acronym', 'address',
'blockquote', 'cite', 'code',
'pre', 'br',
'a[href]', 'img[src]',
'ul', 'ol', 'li',
'dl', 'dt', 'dd',
'table', 'tr', 'td', 'th',
'tbody', 'thead', 'tfoot',
'col', 'colgroup', 'caption',
'b', 'i', 'tt',
'sub', 'sup', 'big', 'small', 'hr'

Attributes allowed

'class', 'title', 'src', 'href'

Important

Any elements used that do not match these parameters when htmlpurifier is engaged will not render in the browser, meaning they will not be visible in your static page. Make sure you review the content you have added to your static pages before engaging this security setting!

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Edit an existing static page

In AtoM, static pages can be edited by authenticated (i.e. logged-in) administrators to reflect your own institution’s or network’s requirements.

This section contains instructions on how to edit static pages in AtoM. There are potentially two ways to edit static pages. The primary method is by clicking the the gears Admin and selecting “Static pages” from the drop-down menu. This option will route you to a “List” page, where all static pages in the application will be listed. Navigate to the static page you wish to edit by clicking on the blue menu name.

Additionally, if to the target static page has been added to the info Quick links menu in the main menu, you can use the Quick links menu to navigate to the static page you would like to modify - an “Edit” button will appear at the bottom of the static page.

Below are instructions to edit to the Home page and other static pages in AtoM. For more information on navigating in AtoM, see Navigation in AtoM.

Edit the “Home page”

To edit the “Home page” in AtoM:

  1. Start by navigating to the Home page. Do this by either:

    An image of the List static pages page in AtoM

    All three options will direct you to the Home page view page.

  2. To switch from the main view page to edit mode, click on the edit button in the button block. AtoM will redirect you to the edit page of the Home page.

An image of the Home page in edit mode
  1. On loading, the edit page will display a “Title” field, a Slug field and a “Content” field.

    Important

    The Slug field is a page title referenced by AtoM code to manage URLs; it cannot be changed for the Home page or the About page. However, it can be edited in any static pages that you add yourself.

  2. Add and/or revise data as required. Editing the “Title” field of the Home page will edit the static page’s title, and will also affect the blue menu links shown in gears Manage > Static pages. For example, if you change “Welcome” to say “Hello!”, the page title in Manage static pages will also change to “Hello!”, as will the heading on the page.

    The main body content of the home page can be edited by changing the data in the “Content” section of the edit page.

    Tip

    Users can use Markdown, and/or HTML and inline CSS code to the “Content” field to format content, add hyperlinks, or further style the page contents. See below for information on how to style static pages. See also: Formatting.

  3. You can quit the edit process at any time by clicking the “Cancel” button in the button block; any data already entered will not be saved. Note that simply navigating away from the page by any other means, without first clicking “Save” will also result in no edits being saved.

  4. To save the changes made to the Home page, click the Save button located in the button block at the bottom of the edit page. AtoM will reload the home page in view mode so you can review the results of your edits.

Edit other existing static pages

To edit an existing static page in AtoM:

  1. Navigate to the static page you would like to edit. You can do this by:

    • Clicking the gears Admin menu in the header bar and selecting “Static pages” from the drop-down menu. Once you are directed to the “List page” for static pages, click on the name of the static page you would like to edit.
    An image of the List static pages page in AtoM

Tip

New static pages are not automatically added to the info Quick links menu. This must be done manually by an administrator via gears Admin > Menus. For more information, see:

The three default static pages included in AtoM at installation (Home, About, and Privacy Policy) all have links provided by default in the Quick links menu.

  1. AtoM will redirect you to the static page. To switch from the main view page to edit mode, click on the edit button in the button block at the bottom of the static page.
  2. On loading, the edit page will display a “Title” field, a Slug field and a “Content” field.
An image of the Privacy policy static page in edit mode

Important

The “Slug” field is a page title referenced by AtoM code to manage URLs; it cannot be changed for the Home page or the About page. However, it can be edited in any static pages that you add yourself.

The “Privacy Policy” static page is also linked in the default Privacy notification banner text. If you intend to use the Privacy notification and you make edits to the “Privacy Policy” static page slug, you will also need to update the default text included in the notification banner message. See: Privacy notification.

  1. Add and/or revise data as required. Editing the “Title” field of the static page will edit the static page’s title, and will also affect the blue menu links shown in gears Manage > Static pages. For example, if you change “About” to say “Hello!”, the page title in Manage static pages will also change to “Hello!”, as will the heading on the page.

    The main body content of the static page can be edited by changing the data in the “Content” section of the edit page.

Tip

Users can use Markdown, and/or HTML and inline CSS code to the “Content” field to format content, add hyperlinks, or further style the page contents. See below for information on how to style static pages. See also: Formatting.

  1. You can quit the edit process at any time by clicking the “Cancel” button in the button block; any data already entered will not be saved. Note that simply navigating away from the page by any other means, without first clicking “Save” will also result in no edits being saved.
  2. To save the changes made to the static page, click the Save button located in the button block at the bottom of the page. AtoM will reload the static page in view mode so you can review the results of your edits. Repeat steps 3-6 as needed.

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Add a new static page

In AtoM, new static pages can be added at any time by any authenticated (i.e. logged-in) administrator. Similar to both the Home page and the About page, you may wish to add a new static page in order to include permanent, or “timeless” content to your webpage. Static pages may be customized to offers users instructions or help in navigating the site (i.e. a “Help” page), provide contact information (i.e. a “Contact Us” page), or feature website content, categories, and/or contributors.

To add a new static page in AtoM:

  1. Click the gears Admin menu in the header bar and select “Static pages” from the drop-down menu.

  2. You will be directed to a “List pages” page, where all existing static pages will be listed.

    An image of the List static pages page in AtoM
  3. Click on the Add new button in the button block to be directed to the edit page for your new static page.

  4. On loading, the edit page will display blank “Title”, Slug and “Content” fields. Add data as required.

    An image of a blank edit form for creating a new static page

    Tip

    The slug indicates the word, or sequence of words that will be visible to users in the URL link when they are navigating on a specific static page (e.g.: the slug in the URL www.artefactual.com/help is help). The slug should be indicative of the content of that specific static page.

    When creating a new static page, the slug field can either be customized or left blank. If you choose to customize the slug, make the slug all lowercase, keep it short, and avoid accented characters (e.g.: é, ñ, û) and punctuation (e.g.: !,``;``, ...).

    If you leave the field blank, AtoM will automatically generate a slug based on the “Title” you have indicated for your page (e.g.: If your “Title” is About Us, the slug for that static page will automatically be generated as about-us). Note that AtoM will automatically replace all accented characters with letters from the English alphabet and punctuation will either be removed or replaced by a dash “-” or percent-encoding (e.g.: If your “Title” is Instructions & More, the slug for that static page will automatically be generated as instructions%26more or instructions-more, unless otherwise indicated). The slug will also appear in the once-blank “Slug” field and can be viewed when switching from the view page to the edit page of that static page.

    Warning

    A slug cannot be duplicated once it has been generated in AtoM. If you duplicate a slug, AtoM will automatically generate a “-2 (or the next subsequent number) at the end of the slug to distinguish it from the other one in the same name (e.g.: Two slugs titled information will result in the second of the two becoming information-2). If you remove an AtoM automatically generated slug from the slug field of a static page you’ve created, AtoM will not re-generate the original slug, regardless of whether or not the “Title” of your page has changed; rather, it will generate a new slug in the form of a series of letters and numbers. This should be avoided, as it creates confusion because it does not accurately indicate the content of that static page. To avoid this, simply enter a custom slug.

  5. The “Content” section is where the main page content of your new static page should be added. You can add Markdown, and/or HTML and inline CSS code to the “Content” field to format content, add hyperlinks, or further style the page contents. See below for information on how to style static pages. See also: Formatting.

  6. You can quit the creation process at any time by clicking the “Cancel” button in the button block; any changes made will not be saved. Note that simply navigating away from the page by any other means, without first clicking “Save” will also result in no new static page being created.

  7. When you are finished creating your new static page, click the “Save” button in the button block.

You will be directed to the view page of the new static page where you can view your changes. The page can be edited again at any time.

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Styling static pages

Basic styling of static pages can be achieved in two ways.

The first method is to use AtoM’s Markdown formatting to style content. For more information on formatting content using Markdown, see:

The second method of styling AtoM static page content is by adding HTML and inline CSS code to the static page’s editable area. There are plenty of online tutorials and resources out there for instruction on HTML and inline CSS use, but a few basic examples commonly employed by AtoM users have been included here as an example.

You can use a mix of Markdown and HTML in static pages. Note that HTML content is not supported outside of static pages in AtoM.

See below for instructions on how to use HTML to create and edit:

Tip

Remember, if you enable Markdown formatting in AtoM, you don’t need to write any HTML! For more information, see:

Headers, subtitles, and emphasis

To increase the size of a heading or subtitle, wrap the relevant text in <h3> </h3> tags, like so:

<h3>For more information, please contact</h3>.

This will produce the following results:

An image of a larger heading

For larger headings, use smaller numbers, such as <h2> or <h1>. Similarly, for smaller headers, use <h4> or <h5>.

To bold, italicize or underline headers and subtitles, simply wrap the relevant text in <strong></strong> for bold, <em> </em> for italics, or <u> </u> for underline. Typing <strong>Artefactual Systems Inc.</strong> will produce the following results:

An image of a bolded subtitle

Images

If you have access to the server on which your AtoM instance is located (i.e., if you are hosting it yourself, or can ask the hosting provider to include a file for you), you can place images in a directory on the host server, and use a local URL to point to them. Images can then be used via the HTML <img> image element, where the src=" " attribute points to the path of the image, similar to how the hyperlinks are used above. For example, if you wanted an image of email, named “contact-image.jpg” included on your static “Contact Us” page, the code might look like this:

<img src=".../path/to/contact-image.jpg">

…where /path/to represents the internal URL path to the location of contact-image.jpg on your host server, or the path to a web-accessible image.

To center the image, you can wrap the <img> image element in a <div> element, with a text-center" class, like this:

<div class="text-center"><img src=".../path/to/contact-image.jpg"></div>

You can also reuse some of the existing image classes from Bootstrap, to further style your images. For example, you can round the corners with the img-rounded class:

<img class="img-rounded" src="../path/to/my-bunny-image.jpg">

Or if you’re using a Bootstrap 5 theme, use the rounded class instead.

<img class="rounded" src="../path/to/my-bunny-image.jpg">

Produces:

An image of a picture using the rounded class

Make an image circular using the img-circle bootstrap class:

<img class="img-circle" src="../path/to/my-bunny-image.jpg">

Or if you’re using a Bootstrap 5 theme, use the rounded-circle class instead.

<img class="rounded-circle" src="../path/to/my-bunny-image.jpg">

Produces:

An image of a picture using the circle class

Or give your images a frame, like on our digital object browse page, using the img-polaroid class:

<img class="img-polaroid" src="../path/to/my-bunny-image.jpg">

Or if you’re using a Bootstrap 5 theme, use the img-thumbnail class instead.

<img class="img-thumbnail" src="../path/to/my-bunny-image.jpg">

Produces:

An image of a picture using the polaroid class

Tip

Reusing existing Bootstrap CSS classes is a good way to style elements when you have the htmlpurifier setting engaged - see above, Static pages and security configuration for more information.

See also

To link to external images using Markdown instead of HTML, see:

Boxes and dividers

You can add styled boxes around text by wrapping content in the HTML <div> element, and then using inline CSS to modify the appearance of the box. For colors, use the HTML or RGB values for the color you would like to use, rather than generic names such as “red,” “blue,” etc. - most browsers support a limited palette of colors using names such as this, and the results may be inconsistent across browsers. There are many free HTML color wheels available that allow you to choose a color and copy its HTML# or RGB values; for example: http://www.colorpicker.com/

For a small centered box with a green color, you might use code such as this:

<div style="width:600px; margin-left:right; margin-right:right; padding: 5px;
background-color:#39BF34; border:none;">Here is a list of ways that we can be
contacted with any questions or concerns you may have:</div>

This is how the box will appear:

An image of a box

Note

The above example will not work if you have htmlpurifier engaged in AtoM. For more information, see the section above, Static pages and security configuration for more information. The examples below, reusing existing Bootstrap classes, will work even when htmlpurifier is engaged.

Another example of this is the light yellow box that appears on the AtoM demo’s “Welcome” static page warning users that the data will reset every hour. This yellow box is reusing an existing style class from the Bootstrap CSS framework that AtoM uses - you can make use of existing Bootstrap classes to help with styling, like so:

<div style="alert">Welcome message appears here</div>

And here is the result:

An image of a box

Other Bootstrap alert classes that can be used to style containers include alert-success, alert-info, and alert-danger:

An image of various boxes styled with Bootstrap classes

Note

If you are using a Bootstrap 5 theme, your alert will not have a background color by default. You can include an alert-primary class or one of the other alert classes listed above if you wish to apply a background color and border on your alert.

<div style="alert alert-primary">Welcome message appears here</div>
<div style="alert alert-secondary">Welcome message appears here</div>
<div style="alert alert-info">Welcome message appears here</div>
<div style="alert alert-warning">Welcome message appears here</div>
<div style="alert alert-danger">Welcome message appears here</div>

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