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Quick Tip 1 - Editing Pages

This brief video tutorial steps you through making basic edits to an already existing page.

Quick Tip 2 - Adding Calendar Events

This quick tip will show you how to use the built-in funtions of the calendar module to add content to your public library calendar

Quick Tip 3 - Hiding Published Pages

In this training session we will learn to hide public pages from the template so they don't show in your final site.

Quick Tip 4 - Adding Images to Pages

This video will walk you through the process of adding images to you website.

Quick Tip 5 - Creating Internal Links

This tutorial will walk you through making links in Plinkit to other areas of your site.

Quick Tip 6 - Creating External Links

This quick tip will follow up on the previous tip and show expand it to show you how to make links to other websites on the Internet from your site.

Quick Tip 7 - Removing Internal or External Links

This brief video shows how to go about removing links of any kind from your website.

Quick Tip 8 - Adding News Items

In this Quick Tip we will look at creating new news items for your Illinois Plinkit Site.

Quick Tip 9 - Changing Effective and Expiration Dates of News Items

We can also change the effective and expiration dates of news items on our site to give us even more control over our content.

Quick Tip 10 - Adding a new page

Up to this point we have focused on editing existing pages. In this Quick Tip we will look at how to create a new page with no predefined content.

Quick Tip 11 - Adding Community Organizations

Adding community organizations to your Illinois Plinkit website can add a lot of value to your patrons when they want to support local businesses. This Quick Tip will show you how.

Quick Tip 12 - Uploading Files

In this video I will show you how to upload a file of any type to your Plinkit website. This is useful for board minutes or uploading other files that you want to be available for download from your website.

Quick Tip 13 - Uploading Images

In this video we will look at the process of uploading an image as a stand-alone image and not part of story.

Quick Tip 14 - Adding Board Minutes and Agendas

This tutorial shows you how to upload board minutes and agendas to your Plinkit website.

Quick Tip 15 - Plinkit 2.0 Forms - 1

This video describes how to fix the problem of forms being mailed as an attachment instead of the content being a part of the email body. We will also look briefly at some additional changes you can make with the mailer function in the new Plinkit 2.0.