Learning Centre
Task-Based Training Videos
To help improve the training experience, we've started creating shorter task-based training videos. These trainings focus on one or two tasks and walk you through the entire process from start to finish.
Getting started with Govstack
Login to Govstack for the first time
Learn how to login to the Govstack dashboard for the first time.
Duration: 7 Minutes
The Dashboard and Back Office
Take a tour of the Govstack platform dashboard and learn how to access the CMS Back Office. Walk through the sections of the CMS back office and learn their basic functions.
Duration: 13 Minutes
Creating page content
The following training courses will teach you page creation and content editing basics. You'll learn how to build pages, add content and publish your page to your new website.
Creating pages and page templates
Learn to navigate the content tree and create pages and page templates.
Duration: 16 Minutes
Adding page content
Learn how to add text content to you web page using the text component. We cover pasting from source documents, headings, images, links, tables, and accessibility.
Duration: 52 Minutes
Working with components
Learn about component intros and outros, buttons, and enhancing your efficiency with the Govstack clipboard.
Duration: 24 minutes
Page settings and features
Learn about the web page settings behind your site content. In this training we'll cover workflows, redirects, the info tab, extra content, summaries, navigation settings, SEO, and advanced page features.
Duration: 33 Minutes
Publishing a page
Learn how to publish a web page. We cover publishing pages in multiple languages, setting pages to publish or unpublish on a timer, and publishing site directories.
Duration: 12 Minutes
Content components
Learn how to use content components to create engaging and compelling web pages.
Anchored accordion component
Learn how to create anchored accordions, collapsible content with the option to link to and open individual entries with hyperlinks.
Duration: 42 minutes (Primary content: 19 minutes, Settings: 23 minutes)
Banner componenet
Walk through the features and settings of the Banner component, with a focus on page banners and how they interact with images and video.
Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes
Calendar feed componenet
Create feeds that automatically display filtered calendar entries from the Govstack Events application.
Duration: 15 minutes
Data list componenet
Learn how to create simple 2-column tables to display hours of operation, price lists, meus, and other tabular data.
Duration: 35 minutes (Primary content: 12 minutes, Settings: 23 minutes)
Gallery component
Learn how to create a gallery to display images and videos in grids and carousels.
Duration: 52 minutes (Primary content: 28 minutes, Settings: 24 minutes)
Layout component
Learn how to create adaptable content layouts with up to 6 variable width columns.
Duration: 28 minutes
News feed component
Learn how to create news feeds to display filtered lists of news posts anywhere on your website.
Duration: 35 minutes
Pods and text/image components
Learn how to create a multi-column call to action using Pods and the Text/Image component.
Duration: 57 minutes
Reusable pods
Learn how to create a library of reusable pod sub-components to reduce content creation and update time.
Duration: 15 minutes
Split component
Learn how to create adaptable 2-column layouts with the split component.
If you are using Govstack CMS 1.10.2 or later this component has been replaced with the Layout component.
Duration: 32 minutes (Primary content: 17 minutes, Settings: 15 minutes)
Text editing
Learn how to add and edit text and text content elements inside the text component.
Text fundamentals
In this training we cover adding text components, copying and pasting text, headings, and basic text formatting.
Duration: 15 minutes
Images in text
In this training we'll walk through adding images inside text components, including image styling, sizing, and wrapping text.
Duration: 15 minutes
Links
Learn how to create links to web pages, external websites, and documents in Govstack's text editor.
Duration: 14 minutes
Tables
Use the Govstack table editing tools to build basic tables in text content, and format them for presentation and accessibility.
Duration: 14 minutes
News and alerts
Learn how to create news categories, posts, and alerts.
Alerts
Learn how to create customized popup or banner alerts to grab your visitors attention.
Duration: 15 minutes
News posts
Learn how to create news posts and send out email updates to subscribers in the Govstack CMS.
Duration: 20 minutes
Extended news features
Use the Govstack extended news features to organize your news posts using subfolders, add tags to enhance the searchability of your posts, and create additional news pages with custom design and search settings.
Duration: 17 minutes
Images, documents and media
Learn how to upload and organize your images and media files in Govstack.
Images, documents, and media
Learn how to navigate the Media section of Govstack. Upload and organize documents, images, video, and sound files. Crop, zoom, and set the focal point and accessibility features of images.
Duration: 26 Minutes
Website navigation
The following courses will teach you how to sort pages in the Govstack back office so that they display appropriately in your public-facing website menu.
Move, sort, and rename pages
Learn how to edit your site structure in the content tree by moving, sorting, and renaming pages.
Duration: 10 Minutes
Menu manager
Join us for a complete walkthrough of this major update to Govstack CMS navigation. Menu Manager gives you the ability to build automatically updating main navigation elements with a variety of options. Create standard navigation menus, menus that include call to action images and links, and menus that can include multiple levels of web pages.
Duration: 43 minutes
Navigation
Learn how to edit the navigation options in your website header and footer.
Duration: 11 minutes
Website settings and the global node
Learn how to edit the website functions and settings controlled through the global node.
Global content
Learn how to use the global content settings to add universal components to your website. Add and edit contact information, website popups, and editable areas at the top and bottom of your webpages.
Duration: 22 minutes
Navigation
Learn how to edit the navigation options in your website header and footer.
Duration: 11 minutes
Footers
Learn how to navigate, update, and customize your website footers.
Duration: 11 minutes
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