All Sitemasonry Tutorials

Social media shares increase Mason’s digital impact by connecting with potential new visitors and improving a news item’s search engine ranking.  Even if you have no distribution plans of your own, web content is highly shareable, and one can’t predict which stories will be shared by your readers.

Blockquote styling is the unsung, and versatile, hero of a reader-friendly page or news item.

SiteMasonry Site Owners are able to issue Content Editor accounts.

News Items with the same Topic Tag will appear together in a news item filter list and are grouped into a taxonomy list. News Items shared with a site will export to the designated subscribing site.

This 'Display Date' field is used to list news items by 'Display Date' order in a news list filter block. This field appears near the top of a news item admin screen. The 'Display Date' does not affect the page's visibility to end-users. To schedule the news item to publish on a specific date, please use the publication settings at the bottom of the news item's 'Edit Settings' screen.

The text here will display as the search engine result snippet. This text is the item's 'elevator speech', a one-sentence highlight of your content.

A snappy, robust profile is a great way to show off a Mason community member's accomplishments.

SiteMasonry’s Webform builder helps Site Owners easily create and add forms to a web page. Collecting Personal Identifiable Information (PII), documents or images? Contact ITS for access to the Qualtrics secure form building tool.

All program items should have a default disclaimer notice: 

To find a profile in Mason's content distribution site, Content Hub

How to add a New ‘Latest Episode’ block to the Access to Excellence Podcast landing page Before you begin: * Add the podcast episode as a news item to Content Hub. You will need to add the URL of the new podcast to update the ‘Listen Now’ CTA (Call to Action) under the ‘Latest Episode’ block. * Have intro copy and a 220x220 episode thumbnail available - as this is your content

Using a seasonal campus photo in a page header is a nice touch.  Remember to swap out those fall photos before the snow flies, and the snow photos before cherry blossoms arrive!