Community Partner

donaldson run Members of the Donaldson Run Recreation Association pool donated over 400 pounds of food to AFAC during the summer of 2010. Food drives big and small are important to AFAC, bringing in a variety of food to fill our "choice shelves."

Importing Clean Content

It is very important to clean the content before importing

If not, the existing tags can be migrated with the text and may not be compatible with the stylesheet on the new site. Because of this the newly imported content will be plain text or incorrectly styled text. You can use the style guide in the Contribute Manual to find the best style for the new content.

The best workflow for importing content is as follows:

  1. copy content from existing page

  2. paste content into Notepad or TextEdit or another basic text editor (something very, very simple - do not use Word or anything similar, as these word processors often add garbage tags and styling)

  3. copy content from Notepad (this will "clean" the content, stripping it of any tags)

  4. paste into editable section in Contribute

  5. Use the site style guide to apply the correct formatting to the pasted text.

 

See the site style guide for more information on how different header tags, lists, etc. will display. This will come into play because of the need to strip any incoming content of existing styles.