When you have new content, you will have to decide if you will use a page or an article to present it. One useful thing to do is to get a piece of paper and sketch out where your content will go. That will make it easier when you're ready to build it in the content management system.

Use the following advice as a guide for how you present your content.

Articles

It's not always necessary to create a page to display your content. Sometimes an article will work. Articles are versatile and can include contact information, images, related links, and related articles. Check out this article for the biology department's botany program.

You can also make articles into links so you can add them to your navigation easily. The Distinguished Professors Web site's entire navigation is made up of articles.

Pages

Think of a page as a bulletin board where you place articles, along with all sorts of other available information. Articles are the individual postings that go on the board.

You can post an article on a page in these ways:

• Headline only
• A headline with a summary
• A headline with a summary and a thumbnail image
• Full article text - with or without headline

Articles can be posted on pages, or they can stand alone. However, other kinds of content must be posted on pages. These kinds of content are:

• Course descriptions
• Calendars and events
• Personnel directories
• An image you click to go to a link
• Interactive forms
• Message marquees
• Random rotating images

If you need to use these kinds of content, create a page to display it. More information on how to best create a page is available here.