Two-Hour Pixelsilk Training 

 
For your convenience, Pixelsilk Content Management System (CMS) training can be done either in-person at the Smart​z office in Bend, OR, or by phone via Go-to-Meeting. You will enjoy its functionality and ease of use, like others have:

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"Pixelsilk is the first CMS I have felt good about recommending."
-Bruce Clay, Bruce Clay, Inc.

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"Pixelsilk is the CMS I've been looking for and one I'll be recommending to clients." 
-Adam Audette, Audette Media

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An outline of what you will learn follows:

1. Overview of Pixelsilk (it’s main functionality and benefits)

• Pages
• Users
• Library
• Design (lightly covered )
• Settings (lightly mentioned)

2. Setting Up Roles and Creating Users (for easier management and security)

• Assign roles
• Give permissions
• Create user name(s) and password(s) and assign them a role
• Control roles and page level property permissions (lightly covered )

3. Adding Images and Other Media

• Log-in to admin
• Import/up-load images
• Size images (size vs. quality)
• Naming convention
• Create and organize an album (drag/drop, rename, delete, etc.)
• Use of other tools (i.e., Pic Monkey,Tinypng.com)

4. Adding and Positioning Pages

• Choice of parent or sibling page (and their relationship)
• Choice of page type: static html, list section or article page
• Connect roles and permissions
• Decide how pages should appear
• Move pages (and see what happens to their url)
• Populate SEO Meta information

5. Editing Content (based on type)

• Main content blocks, side-bar columns and global content (i.e. footer)
• Use content editor
• Import from Word
• Add and align images
• Internal and external linking of images and certain content
• Assign headings 1, 2 and 3
• Edit special pages (such as rotating banners, calls-to-action, etc)

6. Wrap-Up

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