Set up your LaFolio site using the templates on the ePortfolio site developed by “Tools” your language professors. Plug-ins: The tab appears on the left hand-toolbar when you log into your website and “Plug-ins” navigate to Dashboard. Scroll through the available plug-ins and click for the following three “Activate” important plug-ins: Media Player” “Anarchy Gallery” “NextGEN Advanced” “TinyMCE These plug-ins make your website easier to manage and configure. Settings: Click on the tab on the left hand toolbar “Settings” Click to open up the following page “General” Make changes to your general settings page as necessary: enter a title for your site, enter College e-portfolio scholar” as the tagline and enter your email “Lafayette address. Click changes” at the bottom of the page. “save Now click on under “Reading” “Settings” Click on static page”, and specify which page will be static in your website: it will “A be the page that the site will open to when someone navigates to your site url. Select Journal” for the page if you want to include a blog. “My “posts” Click changes” so these changes are recorded. “save Click under “Privacy” “Settings” It is recommended that you select the second from the top option, which allows everyone to view the page. No one will be allowed to edit anything on the site, except for fields in blog pages or pages where comments are enabled. Lastly, we must add a feature to improve the performance of the text-editing feature available when you edit pages for your website. Click Advanced” under “TinyMCE “Settings” Drag and drop toolbars from the bottom to the top three grey bars (toolbar ‘pool’ space), too create this following setup:
Set up your LaFolio site using the templates on the ePortfolio “Tools” site developed by your language professors. Plug-ins: The “Plug-ins” tab appears on the left hand-toolbar when you log into your website and navigate to Dashboard. Scroll through the available plug-ins and click “Activate” for the following three important plug-ins: “Anarchy Media Player” “NextGEN Gallery” “TinyMCE Advanced” These plug-ins make your website easier to manage and configure. Settings: Click on the “Settings” tab on the left hand toolbar Click “General” to open up the following page Make changes to your general settings page as necessary: enter a title for your site, enter “Lafayette College e-portfolio scholar” as the tagline and enter your email address. Click “save changes” at the bottom of the page. Now click on “Reading” under “Settings” Click on “A static page”, and specify which page will be static in your website: it will be the page that the site will open to when someone navigates to your site url. Select “My Journal” for the “posts” page if you want to include a blog. Click “save changes” so these changes are recorded. Click “Privacy” under “Settings” It is recommended that you select the second from the top option, which allows everyone to view the page. No one will be allowed to edit anything on the site, except for fields in blog pages or pages where comments are enabled. Lastly, we must add a feature to improve the performance of the text-editing feature available when you edit pages for your website. Click “TinyMCE Advanced” under “Settings” Drag and drop toolbars from the bottom ‘pool’ to the top three grey bars (toolbar space), too create this following setup:
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