Website authors
We will be updating Umbraco soon.
This section will then need to be updated and consequently some content may be out of date.
Need help with the Umbraco system?
We've gathered a few useful resources here.
Training
Passwords
Please read the GCC password policy and set your Umbraco password accordingly
Self help
From Umbraco
Umbraco have an extremely useful site with short videos showing how the menu tree, content editor and media manager work (watch these first):
https://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/content-editor/
They also have an editor's manual which should read:
https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Tutorials/Editors-Manual/
This manual explains how to do all the normal tasks in Umbraco.
From the Digital Team
Recorded training sessions
If you couldn't attend any of the sessions, we have recordings on YouTube.
Introduction - approx. 1 hour:
This session covers the basics but does not go into all the details.
Page editing - approx 90 minutes:
This session goes into greater detail of how to edit web pages
Our slides
These are the slides we use in our training.
These are slides from a recent best practice session on writing for the web, search engine optimisation and accessibility (see the GDS guidance for more detail on accessibiliy)
These are slides from a recent session on advanced features that look at the news system, booking system, slide show and new homepage template
From the Government Digital Service
Accessibility of non-HTML documents
Checking a PDF: Section 4 of Doing a basic accessibility check if you cant do a detailed one
With the detail inPublishing accessible documents
Our "How to…" series
The "Add-ons" series (in progress)
We will be updating Umbraco soon.
These How-tos will not be completed until after the update.
- Umbraco events (coming soon)
- New functionality in the Umbraco events system
- Umbraco forums - Staffnet only at the moment (coming soon)
- Blogging with Umbraco "Articulate"
- Creating and using Umbraco forms (coming soon)
The "Technical" series
- Setting up Umbraco Users
- Setting up Umbraco Members
- 'Securing' pages and sections
- Using the SEO Checker
- Really technical bits
- Google Analytics (unfinished)
- Google Tag Manager (coming soon)
If you are having any difficulty contact the Digital Office: 01452 328095 / digital@gloucestershire.gov.uk.