Website Posts

Owned by Jade McKenzie
Last updated: Jun 13, 2023
3 min read

Welcome to the documentation for creating new or editing existing posts for the Centre website. In order to maintain its relevance, the Centre website requires a consistent stream of fresh content. This guide will walk you through the process of crafting and publishing new posts, ensuring the website remains up to date and engaging for the public.

This guide is intended for users who have posting permission to the Centre’s squarespace website: https://centredarkmatter.org/. If you do not have access to make or edit your own posts, please contact cdm-admin@unimelb.edu.au.

Making a new post or editing an existing post

  1. Sign in to Squarespace

  2. Go to website ARC Centre of Ecellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics

  3. Navigate to: Pages > All posts

  4. To make a new post, click +

  5. To edit an existing post, you have two options:

    • Search the title

      • Squarespace has a known bug with searching - if your post does not appear, try typing one letter at a time or backspacing one letter at a time until it appears

    • Navigate to the post in the website preview

      • Hover over the post until EDIT appears in the top right

      • Click SETTINGS

You can now edit or add your post.

Be sure to enter or check the following fields in each tab:

  • Content tab

    • Title

    • Content

    • Tags and Categories (see Post Types below)

  • Options tab

    • Image

    • URL

    • Author

    • Excerpt

Post Types

The following items are the usual types of post on the Centre website. If your post falls outside of these categories, contact cdm-admin@unimelb.edu.au to discuss the best options for your post.

Centre News

Centre News is reserved for any centre-related media and communications.

The following categories are important

  • Centre News

The following categories should be considered

  • Media Release

  • Related research theme(s):

    • Direct Detection

    • LHC

    • Theory

    • Metrology

The following tags should be considered

  • Annual Report

  • Careers

  • Informative

  • Outreach

  • Women in STEM

  • Meet the Researcher

Experiment

Experiment posts should not have much information in them as most experiments will change over time and produce their own media and publications. The goal of an experiment post is to link to the offical page of the experiment. For an experiment post:

  • Content tab: Enter the title, categories, and tags (nothing is required for the main content).

  • Options tab: Enter a Source URL, tick Post Title should link to Source URL, and enter a short and basic description of the experiment in Excerpt.

The following categories are important

  • Related research theme(s):

    • Direct Detection

    • LHC

    • Theory

    • Metrology

The following tags are important

  • Experiment

People

People posts are profiles of our active Centre Members. The page should have a circle photo and a short bio. Additional information you may want to include:

  • Home institution

  • Research theme

  • Contact (only for leadership, professors, and associate professors)

The following categories are important

  • People

The following tags are important

  • Leadership

  • Centre affiliation:

    • Academic Staff

    • Advisory Board

    • Associate Investigator

    • Chief Investigator

    • ISAC

      • Current

      • Past

    • Node Administrator

    • Partner Investigator

    • Postdoctoral Researcher

    • Professional Staff

    • Student

      • PhD

      • Masters

      • MPhil

      • Honours

    • Technical Staff

  • Committee membership:

    • EDI Committee

    • EDI Admin

    • Research Committee

The following categories should be considered

  • Related research theme(s):

    • Direct Detection

    • LHC

    • Theory

    • Metrology

The following tags should be considered

  • Institution:

    • ANU

    • SUT

    • UoA

    • UoM

    • UoS

    • UWA

    • Outside of the above, if the institution has a formal acronym they go by, use that (eg. ANSTO, SICCAS, DSTG). If not, for universities, use the convention U[City] (eg. UWashington, UToronto, UAmsterdam). For any other institutions, use the full name.

Publication

Publication posts should not have much information in them as publications can have amendments posted years later. The goal of a publication post is to link to the permanent DOI. For a publication post:

  • Content tab: Enter the title, categories, and tags (nothing is required for the main content).

  • Options tab:

    • Source URL is the DOI link

    • Tick Post Title should link to Source URL

    • Excerpt should only show Centre authors in the following convention:

      • Centre Authors: Barberio, E. L., Jackson, P., Kong, A., McDonald, E., McNamara, P., Potti, H., Ruggeri, T., Scutti, F., Taylor, G., Urquijo, P., White, M.

The following categories are important

  • Related research theme(s):

    • Direct Detection

    • LHC

    • Theory

    • Metrology

The following tags are important

  • Publication