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Byte Productions L.L.C. 9991 E. Cherry Bend Road Traverse City MI 49684 Phone: (231) 946-BYTE (2983)
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9991 E. Cherry Bend Road
Traverse City MI 49684
Phone: (231) 946-BYTE (2983)
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Creative Internet & Multimedia Solutions Since 1991

We earned our reputation as the trusted experts by launching many successful web sites every month for years. Byte's team of full-time internet professionals is ready to assist you with your internet goals, from concept and implementation to training and marketing.

Whether you need a brochure-ware site or a database-driven business application, at Byte you'll get a world-class web site backed by small town service and support.

Explore our online portfolio of custom web sites, template-based budget sites or review a complete list of our services. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Testimonials

Parsons & Maxson, Inc. (P&M) has been collaborating with Byte Productions for nearly eight years. P&M is a business-to-business marketing communications firm, serving some of Michigan's largest companies. On too many occasions to count, Byte has helped us bring to fruition complex communications programs that have made US look really good to our clients. That's priceless. And that's why we value our relationship with them. Byte understands P&M's mission: To "make the clients' problems go away." They understand the high standards of creativity and service we strive to maintain. Byte rises to any challenge we pose to them....they seem to embrace "the impossible," and in fact, encourage us to challenge them. Neither we, nor our clients, are ever disappointed with the work Byte provides. And -- bonus! -- the personalities of Byte's people are a dream to work with. They are brilliantly creative, and amazingly techie, yet humble. Quite a unique blend of talents; we are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with them.

Janet Shaver and Susan Vinkemulder
Owners
P&M, Inc. Marketing Communications

Help Center


Working with the Content Management System (CMS)
Getting Started   Next >>

Welcome to the Byte Productions' Content Management System (CMS) demonstration.

This tutorial will walk you through each step to create the navigation and pages of your new website. We have created generic CMS screenshots as examples. They will not look exactly like your site, but the CMS structure will work exactly the same way.

Let's get started!

1Let's take your first look at the management section of the CMS. To navigate to this screen on your site open your site manager (we should have already provided you with the link), and click on 'Manage Content' in the left side bar.



2Don't be overwhelmed by the CMS screen! We are going to walk you through each button and menu to get you fully comfortable with managing your site's content. Go ahead and open your live site in another tab in your browser. While you are working in your CMS, you can easily toggle back and forth in that window between the Manager screen and your live site so you can watch the process. As you build your site structure in the CMS, the menu on your live site screen will display the navigation you've built.

3In this instruction window you see a menu at the left that will walk you through each section of the help screens. If you are a beginner, we recommend that you start at the beginning and advance through the entire instructions one section at a time. If you are just refreshing your skills, feel free to jump to whatever section you need.

4The '<< Back' and 'Next >>' links above on the right will walk you through the entire instructions one screen at a time.

5By now you should know the general layout of your site. If you have not yet determined this then it is recommended that you sit down and create a layout on paper in an outline format like the examples below:

  1. Top-level Page
  2. Top-level Navigation
    1. Mid-level Navigation
      1. Page
      2. Page
    2. Mid-level Navigation
      1. Page
      2. Page
      3. Page
  3. Top-level Page
  4. Top-level Navigation
    1. Page
    2. Page
  5. Top-level Page
  1. About Us
  2. Products
    1. Shoes
      1. Sandals
      2. Tennis Shoes
    2. Hats
      1. Baseball Caps
      2. Winter Styles
      3. Sun Hats
  3. Our Suppliers
  4. Find Us
    1. Map
    2. Contact Form
  5. Our Friends

6Each numbered line in your site outline will need to be defined as an individual page, a navigational guide, a form, etc. This is done by clicking on 'Define New' in your site manager for each item, one at a time.

7For the purpose of this tutorial we will be using this sample outline laid out on the right here. Before you begin working in the CMS on your own site, make sure you have already laid out your own similar site outline to work with.

8Go ahead and advance to 'Tree Structure' in the navigation on the left, or click the Next button on the top right to learn more about the outline layout.