Posted By Alesha Wireman
May 01, 2020
Category: Learning, Modules, How To
One of the newest features found within your Virteom powered website is the ability for you to add a social share image to any and every site page. This means that when any page of your website is shared on a social media platform, the image that accompanies the post is one that you choose.
Social share images play a large role in the number of engagements your posts or others' posts linking to your website receive. It can impact a viewer's decision to click the post, view the page to find out more, and can ultimately result in new business for you.
This new feature is important for several reasons. You now have the ability to control the social share image for every page of your website to ensure that it's the best reflection of your company and the content overall. You can set the image so that it follows your brand guidelines and captures your audience's attention, making them want to visit the website page every time! Updating the social share image is the simplest way to guarantee that your website, blog posts, and site pages present beautifully on any social media platform across the board.
How to set a social share image
Login To Your Site
To make edits to your website, you'll need to log-in first:
Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (your URL.com)/virteom
Enter your username
Enter your password
Click 'Login'
Navigate to the Page you're Setting A Social
Posted By Olivia Justice
March 23, 2020
Category: Learning, Modules
Is your Virteom powered website utilizing the Masonry Photo Module? Adding new photos to your gallery is really simple and even allows you to upload multiple images at one time. The one real advantage of using the masonry module is so that you can display images in groupings or categories on a singular webpage. This allows you to separate images out into different galleries so like photos can appear together.
For example: Say you're a landscaper and you have a webpage entitled "Hardscapes". You may want to output multiple galleries on this single page to break out each type of hardscape you've done: walkways, patios, pergolas, steps, fire pits, etc. The masonry photo module allows you to accomplish this. You can set multiple categories, and multiple galleries in that one category - all to output on one single webpage.
In this how-to article, we explain how to add a new category, add a new gallery, edit an existing category, edit an existing gallery (adding images to an existing gallery), and how to delete categories, galleries, and images in the Masonry Photos module powered by RocketSites.
Logging-In
First things first, you must log-in to your Virteom powered website. You can do this by visiting your website and adding /virteom at the end. This will take you to the log-in screen for the site.
Enter your email address in the email field
Enter your password in the password field
Click 'Login'
Navigate to the Masonry Grid
Posted By Olivia Justice
August 21, 2019
Category: How To
Websites make it easy to get your business information out to the online community, but after building websites for 20+ years, we've learned that sometimes you don't want every page on your website accessible to the general public. Which is why RocketSites offers the ability to create private pages that are only accessible to a designated person/company.
Why would you want to use private webpages? Private webpages are used for a number of reasons. Our clients have used private pages for promotions in email campaigns, as a document center, for quote calculators, you name it. Private pages really come in handy! Private pages also allow you to essentially have a draft of the webpage you're creating without it being accessible to the general public.
Whatever the use case, Virteom Rocketsites makes it easy to mark a page as 'private' and set permissions for the users you want to have access. In this how-to guide, we'll explain how to create a new page, mark it as private, create a new member, and give access to the user.
Keep reading to learn how to mark pages as private in RocketSites.
LOG-IN TO VIRTEOM CMS
The first step in adding a new private page to your Virteom powered website is to log-in. Visit your website domain /virteom (Ex: https://yourdomain.com/virteom). Once you hit the log-in page, you'll need to enter your username and password.
NAVIGATE TO SITE PAGES
Now that you're logged in to the CMS
Posted By Olivia Justice
July 24, 2019
Category: Learning, Modules
How to Add, Edit and Delete Photos in the PhotoGrid Module
Does your Virteom powered website have a photo gallery on it? Adding new photos to your gallery is really simple and even allows you to upload multiple images at one time.
In this how-to article, we explain how to add new photos to the gallery, remove photos from a gallery, add captions and delete your photo gallery.
Logging-In
First things first, you must log-in to your Virteom powered website. You can do this by visiting your website and adding /virteom at the end. This will take you to the log-in screen for the site.
Enter your email address in the email field
Enter your password in the password field
Click 'Login'
Navigate to the PhotoGrid Module
Once you're logged-in you click 'Dashboard' from the top gray editor menu.
After clicking 'Dashboard' use the left sidebar menu to navigate over to 'Modules'.
The module that handles gallery images is called 'PhotoGrid.' Find PhotoGrid in the menu and click it.
Now that you are in the PhotoGrid module, you'll see an inventory list of all the PhotoGrids on your website. The inventory page allows you to add a new gallery, edit an existing gallery or delete one altogether.
Adding a New Gallery
To add a new gallery to the website, click 'Add New' from the PhotoGrid inventory page (image above).
Once you click 'Add New' a new page will populate.
Note: You may need to enable Adobe Flash to
Posted By Hayley Burke
July 08, 2019
Category: How To
Don't you hate it when you are waiting on an email from someone, and it never seems to come through, then days later you realize it was in your junk or spam folder the whole time? This is a common occurrence, especially these days with all of the unnecessary spam we get. That why you should whitelist email addresses that you know are from senders who have valuable information for you or contacts that you use frequently!
What Does it Mean to Whitelist an Email?
Whitelisting an email address is essentially just a list of approved senders so that you don't lose anything important to the junk folder. This practice is best for people who are signed up for any email subscriptions.
How to Whitelist Emails:
Whitelisting is an easy one-time process that allows you to never miss an email again. Though the process varies slightly based on the email platform, you use. Below are instructions on how to whitelist emails across the major email systems.
Android Mail
AOL Mail
Apple Mail (OS X and iOS devices)
Gmail (web and mobile)
Outlook.com
Outlook 20XX
Windows Live Desktop
Yahoo! Mail
Android Mail:
If you are using an android device, open an email from the sender you wish to whitelist, click their icon/picture, and then click "Add to Contacts."
AOL Mail:
If you use AOL, you will go to a message from the sender, in the preview you can highlight the sender's email address and a drop-down menu will appear. You then select
Posted By Olivia Justice
June 18, 2019
Category: WordPress
WordPress is a publishing platform for managing your digital presence and establishing your brand. Even if there are no built-in options, themes, or features that you want or need, there are thousands of third-party plugins and web apps that can be integrated seamlessly. According to W3techs, WordPress has 58.8% of the CMS marketshare. However, what most site admins discover as they develop and expand their WordPress powered site, every plugin you install requires a steady stream of updates to keep all features working properly. Essentially, the maintenance is a nightmare.
Developers update, upgrade, add-on and change plugins on what feels like a daily basis. If you don't have the technical knowledge to read through the plugin updates or version notes, you may be upgrading to a plugin that is not compatible with the version of WordPress you're running. And even if you have the technical knowledge, you may find that an update to one plugin has completely messed up the functionality of another plugin. Some updates can really cause a trickle-down effect into the other plugins your website uses. When developers update their plugins, they're not always conscious of how their updates will work with other plugins — and how do you expect them to? Each plugin has it's own team of developers behind them.
DEVELOPERS ARE NO LONGER PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR PLUGINS
In other cases, a plugin that was perfect for your site that was working fine has
Posted By Olivia Justice
May 07, 2019
Category: Modules, Learning, How To
The purpose of a website footer is to help visitors by adding information and navigation options at the bottom of the webpage. More often than not, the footer of your website doesn't change, and it really shouldn't...like ever, because it's giving end-users links to service pages and contact information. But in the case you get a new phone number or address, the need to change your footer comes all the more important because again, this information appears on every single page of your website. You don't want the wrong contact information everywhere!
So , what do you do if you need to update the footer on your RocketSite? Have no fear! With RocketSites, it's really easy to go in and make edits to the footer of your website all on your own.
Follow along this how-to guide to learn how to update the footer of your website in RocketSites.
how to edit the footer on rocketsites
Login To Your Site
To make edits to your website's, you'll need to log-in first:
Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (your URL.com)/virteom
Enter your username
Enter your password
Click 'Login'
Navigate to the footer module
Once you're logged-in:
Click on 'Dashboard' from the top gray menu
After clicking 'Dashboard' you should see a new set of menu items. Click on 'Modules' from the left sidebar menu
Select 'Footer' from your list of modules
Please note: every site
Posted By Olivia Justice
January 28, 2019
Category: How To, Navigation, Menus
Want to change the order in which your navigation items appear? Want to remove or add a menu item? No worries, this is all possible within Virteom CMS.
Rearranging menu items in virteom cms
To start rearranging the order, your menu-items appear login to the back-end of your website.
Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (yourdomain.com)/virteom
Enter Email
Enter Password
Click 'Login'
Once you log in, click on 'Site Pages' or 'Navigation' from the menu.
Once you arrive at your Navigation, you'll notice the pages of your website have a distinct hierarchy. The pages on your site show in a "tree" layout - meaning the topmost item is the main menu item, and the pages that appear below it (indented) are "children" of the menu items. This, in turn, is used to determine how the navigation on your website will appear. For example, if you have a menu on your website that looks like this:
the corresponding navigation in Virteom would look like this:
In this example, "Services" is a "parent" menu item of several "child" pages – "Cross Contamination Program", "Carpet Cleaning", "Floor Cleaning", "Window Cleaning", "Day Matron Service", "Construction Cleanup", "Green Cleaning" and "Wholesale Supplies." "Cross Contamination Program" appears first in the drop-down menu because it's the first child p
Posted By Olivia Justice
January 21, 2019
Category: Learning, ECommerce
Do you have a product that is not currently for sale in your Virteom shopping cart? Maybe you have products that are only available during the holiday season or during a specific month. We know how time consuming it can be to have to reupload products, so instead of deleting your product, you can simply disable your products for as long as you want. Enabling it again when it becomes available.
So, how do you enable or disable a product in Virteom CMS? Keep reading to find out....
How to enable/disable a product
First, you'll need to sign into the back-end of your website by visiting yourdomain.com/virteom -- just tag /virteom at the end.
Visit (insertyourdomain).com/virteom
Enter your email
Enter your password
Click 'Login'
Navigate to Products
Once you've logged in, click on 'Manager' from the top-editor.
From the left-hand menu, select 'Store'
Once you're in the store, select 'Products' from the left-hand menu
Locate the item you would like to make available or disable.
Click 'Edit' next to that inventory item.
Once your in your product, scroll down until you locate the 'Product Enabled' checkbox. If you would like to disable this product, uncheck the box. If you would like to enable this product, make sure the box is checked.
Once you've enabled or disabled your product hit 'Save' at the bottom of the screen.
Wah-lah! You now have either enabled a product that
Posted By Olivia Justice
August 17, 2018
Category: Navigation, Pages
Adding and deleting pages that exist within your website is easy with Virteom CMS - just check it out here. But what if you want a link to go out to a different website? Or to a PDF? That's a little bit less intuitive.
In this how-to article, we'll go over how to link to external web pages in your navigation and how to link to documents.
How to link to an external website
First things first, you'll need to login to the back-end of your website. This is simply your domain URL with /virteom tagged on the end.
(For example, ours is virteom.com) and then you enter /virteom after. To login to the back-end of our website, we'd type virteom.com/virteom.)
On this screen, you'll enter your username and password
Once you're logged in, click 'Site Pages' (if you're on Rocketsites) or 'Navigation' (if you're running Virteom CMS 8 and under)
Once you're on the 'Site Pages' you'll see your entire website structure. To add an external link to your navigation, locate the 'Main' section and click the '+' next to it.
A new window will popup and ask whether you're creating a New Page (Content), Directory, or a Link. Since you're linking out to an external website, click the 'Link' button.
Once you click the 'Link' radio button, you will be able to enter the page name and paste in the external URL.
In the
Posted By Olivia Justice
August 02, 2018
Category: Responsive
If you have ever wondered why your website looks different in different browsers, you don’t have to worry that you’re going crazy. There is a legitimate reason why your website may look off in different browsers, like Internet Explorer. Read on to learn why this happens.
Why Does my Website Look Different in internet explorer?
Websites are made up of a set of instructions spoken in a web code language, most often HTML or CSS. Often, different browsers interpret code languages differently, which results in different interpretations. Here are some ways this issue affects your website:
Browser Default Settings:
When a browser reads the code behind your website, it translates the information in the default settings. For instance, Safari and Chrome have different default fonts, which means the font on your site changes when viewed in these browsers. For example, Safari defaults to the Helvetica family and Microsoft's Internet Explorer defaults to the Arial font family.
Default issues are likely the most common reason for variance between browsers. The look and feel of a site may change, but functionality and the user experience remain intact.
Code Changes
Web code is constantly evolving and browsers may lag behind when making any necessary changes. An older version of a browser may not support the latest standards. So, a modern website may speak a language that is not fully understood by the browser.
For example,
Posted By Olivia Justice
July 17, 2018
Category: How To
If you need to change your password in Virteom CMS (or Rocketsites 1.0) follow the directions outlined below:
Log-in with your current credentials
Visit your website/virteom to log-in to the back-end of your website and enter your current credentials:
Navigate to Member Management
After you log-in:
Rocket Sites 1.0 -- Choose 'Dashboard' from the top navigation
Virteom CMS -- Choose 'Manager' from the top navigation
From the left-hand menu Choose 'Members'
Find Your Name / Account
Once you are on the members page, search for your name (or locate it on the page) and click 'Edit'
Change your Password
Now that you are on your member page:
1. Update your password by typing a new password in the Password box
2. Click 'Save'
Your Password is now updated!
If you need any further assistance, please send a request in to our help
Posted By Virteom
June 18, 2018
Category: Clear Cache
If you have owned a computer for any length of time you likely have experienced the dread of internet slow down. If it gets bad enough that you need to reach out for technical support one of the first things that they will tell you to try is to clear your browser cache. But what does clearing your cache even do? Why does it help?
What is Your Browser Cache?
Your cache is the name for a portion of your hard drive that is dedicated to storing browser files that your browser determines it may need to use again. Web pages are packed with information, and this information is stored in dozens, hundreds and sometimes thousands of files for just one site. Your browser will cache portions of the page for you so in future visits load times are quicker, improving your overall internet experience.
Why Should I Clear my Cache?
Your browser will store things like files, CSS styles, JavaScript scripts, images, and other multimedia content. That is why when you’re working with a web development firm and request updates like font changes (color/size) we request you clear your cache frequently to see these changes in real-time.
When changes are made to your website like updating a logo, changing a picture, increasing font or changing colors, you may run into trouble with your browser's cache. Occasionally your browser will load your cached info instead of updated portions of the page that you are desiring to view. This can result in a slow down, image errors or not seeing
Posted By Olivia Justice
October 11, 2017
Category: Modules
Changing URLs is restricted in Virteom CMS - Why? Because it can wreak havoc on your website. Changing your URL can result in:
Loss of SEO Ranking
Loss of referring site traffic. Have you ever been to a site linked from a blog you were reading and then get a 'Page does not exist error?' - It is likely that they changed the URL.
Email Clicks go to Dead URLs
& much more! To learn more about why changing URLs can devastate your SEO traffic CLICK HERE.
But we understand that sometimes changing your URL is neccesarry. We suggest adding a redirect on your page. Redirection is the process of forwarding one URL to a different URL. This allows you to send users and search engines to a different URL than the one that was originally requested.
Virteom CMS makes it easy for you to add a redirect on your website. Keep reading this how-to guide to get the scoop:
How to add a redirect on your website
First things first, you'll need to login to the back-end of your website.
Type in your name and password and click login.
Now that you're logged in, you'll be greeted by your homepage.
In top black Navigation click on Manager
Accessing Modules from the Website Tools
In the left hand panel Website Tools you'll see a item listed asModules. Click on it.
On the left you should see a dropdown of all the modules (or commonly known as plugins) that are installed on your website. They also display on the right hand side.
1. From the menu
Posted By Virteom
October 05, 2017
Category: User Access, Learning
With Virteom, website administrators can choose which members have access to certain areas on the site. For example, you would want your blogger to have access to create and edit blog pages. You can make different levels of users, from customers and staff, to full admins. Let's get started.
After logging in as an admin, select Dashboard (or Manager) from the top bar. Then, on the left hand side, select Members. This will bring up a screen showing all of the members who are registered to your site. You can also search for a member's name using the Search field. Click on Edit next to a member's name.
Here is the user access part of the next screen. You can edit contact information, change a user's password, and update user access from this area.
Editing Access and Permissions
Box 1 is a list of all of the administration features a user has access to. In this example, this user has access to all features. Explore the list on your site and determine how you wish to set up access.
Box 2 is a list of all of the web pages on your site. Again this user has access to edit all of the pages using the Editor section of the Virteom toolbar. In this way, you can select who has permission to edit certain pages of your site. If no pages are selected, the option to bring up the editor will not show.
If you have any locked private pages on your site, you can quickly set up certain presets with the Member Types section under Members on the left hand menu. This will allow y
Posted By Olivia Justice
September 29, 2017
Category: Search Engine Optimization, How To, Learning
SEO in Virteom CMS
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important piece to your website. Generating traffic from organic searches to your website is a key part of your online business. The time and effort you put towards your websites SEO can mean all the difference. That's why adding things like browser titles, meta descriptions and meta tags for every page on your site is important. Adding these behind the scenes SEO tactics, you can improve your search appearance.
In Virteom CMS, we make it easy to add things like meta description, meta tags and browser titles in. Follow along with this how to learn how to add this SEO information on all the pages of your website.
First things first, you'll need to log-in to the back end of your website. Once you have logged in, you should see a black navigation bar at the top of your screen.
Click on 'Navigation' from the black taskbar at the top of your screen
Click on the 'Edit' icon that is next to the page name you'd like to add SEO information to
Adding a Browser title in
Once you navigate to the page you'd like to edit the browser title, meta description or meta keywords for - you'll need to go in edit mode.
1. In the top taskbar, click on 'Editor'
As you can see (below), in the tab on my browser it is displaying the website's URL instead of saying the name of the page "Website Design | Virteom"
To edit your browser title:
2. Click on the black sid
Posted By Olivia Justice
September 13, 2017
Category: Buttons
Your website has been launched. Congrats! You may be happy with the way things look for a while, but as you may know - creating new content is necessary to stay relevant online.
As you create your new web pages, you'll more than likely find yourself in the need of a stand out button. Stand out call-to-action (CTA) buttons let your customers know what action you want them to take. It keeps them from being distracted from all of the other links that are provided on your website.
But, how did Virteom add that stylish BIG call-to-action (CTA) button that is sprinkled throughout your website? And, furthermore, how can I use that same style?
This how-to guide will show you how to add button styles to the links you create on your website.
Locating your button style
The first step in the process is locating the button style you want to replicate. Where does this button live? Do you see it on another page on the website? If so, navigate to that page on your site.
If you have are computer savvy, and can figure out how to use the developer tools - keep reading the next steps in this part.
If you have trouble, simply send us the URL of the page with the button you like with the following request to our help desk system:
Hello team,
Can you please tell me what the class of the button on this page? (Paste URL here).
Thanks,
If you're using Google Chrome, you can use developer tools to determine the class of the button. Right click on the button and cli
Posted By Olivia Justice
August 22, 2017
Category: Forms, Form Submissions
Worried you may have missed a lead? Checking who has submitted a form on your website is easy with form submissions. Form submissions allow you to see who has submitted a response to any form on your website in one Excel file.
Keep reading to learn how to access your form submissions in Virteom CMS.
Login to the CMS
Click on "Manager"
Click on "Forms" on the left-hand side
Click on "Submissions" on the left-hand side underneath "forms"
Choose What Form You'd like to see Submissions
From the dropdown menu select the form you would like to see submissions for. The dropdown menu goes by the name of the form.
Export Submission(s) to Excel
Now that you are on the form you'd like to see submission for, click the "Click to Export xx Submission(s) To Excel"
Check that you did not miss a lead!
The file will export as an Excel Spreadsheet. You can view all of your form submissions that have come through on the specific form you chose on this spreadsheet. If you'd like to see submissions from another form - just choose it from the dropdown.
Want to know more about forms in Virteom CMS? Click here to read our "How-To" guide on forms. In this guide you'll learn how to add forms to a webpage, add in form fields and edit who receives form submissions.
If you are concerned you are not receiving form submissions to your email, please contact a Virteom rep
Posted By Mike Harries
July 20, 2017
Category: Learning, Content
Do you have a marketing video you'd like to add to your Virteom powered website? No worries, it's a breeze to add new videos to any content region on your website. This how-to guide takes you through how to add a YouTube or Vimeo video to your Virteom Powered website.
Keep reading to learn how to embed a video on your website:
how to embed a video on rocketsites
Login To Your Site
To make edits to your website's, you'll need to log-in first:
Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (your URL.com)/virteom
Enter your username
Enter your password
Click 'Login'
Navigate to the page you'd like to embed a video on
Once you log in, click on 'Site Pages' or 'Navigation' from the menu.
Navigate to the page you would like to embed a Youtube or Vimeo video to. (Via 'Site Pages' in the top toolbar or through your navigation)
Click 'Editor' from the top of your toolbar
Click the content area in which you would like to add the YouTube video to.
After clicking into the content region you'd like to embed a video to, click 'Source' from the toolbar (it will show you the HTML version of your content)
Edit Source Mode
Once you're in the Source (1), you'll see your content formatted as HTML -- Find where within your content you'd like your video to embed, and Paste the EXACT embed code from YouTube or Vimeo (2). It is extremely important to get the full
Posted By Olivia Justice
March 24, 2017
Category: How To, Image Resize
Is your website powered by Virteom CMS? Do your images look good on your laptop but not on your 4k monitor? Are your pictures a good size on desktop but become oversized or deformed on a mobile device? More than likely you’re using pixels to set the dimensions of your photos, but is that the best way? This article will explain how you should be sizing the images on your Virteom powered website so that they look good across all devices.
As you make edits and additions to the pages of your website you find yourself adding images to support your content. Typically, the size of your image is too large for your page and with the popup picture below you set dimensions of your image using pixels:
Setting your images dimensions using pixels is what makes your image stretch on your cell phone or from one screen to another. You don’t want to use pixels to set the dimensions of your images.
For example: Here we have a picture of a tablet:
Once we add it into the image uploader we see the width and height of this image is 1000px by 667px. If we kept it that size, it would be very large on the page and it would take up a lot of space. If it was viewed on a mobile device, it would appear stretched out and require you to scroll left and right. Take a look:
Your first instincts may be to resize the image using the width and height that are in the image properties. If we resize the image to 600px by 400px and preview the page you’ll see in the browser it lo
