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The SIUE Web Management site is a resource of various web tools, tips and tricks, tutorials and information for SIUE Luminis and personal web space users.
What is SCT Luminis?
SCT Luminis is SIUE's content management system for web pages.
Luminis is completely web based. All Luminis site changes/updates will be done through your web browser (Internet Explorer on a PC only).
If you want to move your department's website into the Luminis CMS, click on the "Getting Started" link in the upper right column. No HTML knowledge is required to update your Luminis pages. However, a two-hour training session is required before you can begin updating your Luminis pages. That's it!
NOTE: DO NOT USE LUMINIS ON A MAC! YOU WILL LOSE DATA! The Mac platform is currently NOT supported in Luminis. Luminis is currently only supported on a PC using Internet Explorer.
Luminis Tips and Tricks
- If you are having problems with pages loading properly within Luminis...Log out of Luminis and log back in. If that doesn't work properly, you may need to restart your browser.
- DO NOT delete old versions of documents.
- Make sure files are not marked as "Checked Out" after you are finished with them. Otherwise, files that are "Checked Out" cannot be opened and edited by anyone until the checkout is cancelled.
- If you are working in Luminis and you go to lunch, have to attend a meeting, are going home for the day, etc...please save your work and logout of the system. Luminis has a timeout setting and will kick you out after a set amount of idle time and the files you had open will remain checked out.
- If you are having trouble changing font styles, clean the style with the clean style button.
- IMPORTANT: If you are pasting text into the WYSIWYG editor, always use the "Paste as Plain Text" option found in the 'Edit' pulldown within the WYSIWYG editor.
- IMPORTANT: When inserting bookmarks, DO NOT USE NUMBERS. If you want to label a bookmark with a number, you MUST spell out the number as a word ('seven' instead of '7'). Using numbers in bookmarks will cause an error and you will not be able to edit that page.
- TO SINGLE SPACE: click 'SHIFT' + 'ENTER'.
- When importing an image, pdf, etc... and before placing it on a page, always submit the image, pdf, etc. right away. This will help avoid any issues with images not showing up on submitted pages.
