LiveWhale CMS Help
LiveWhale is the content management system (CMS) used to keep the SUNY Purchase website current, informative, and engaging. It was selected for its user-friendly interface and its strong focus on the needs of educational institutions.
With LiveWhale, you can edit page content, publish news stories and events, manage profiles, add images and other dynamic content, and organize the components that make up your site.
LiveWhale uses a “What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)” editor, making it easy to create and format content without knowledge of HTML. The editor includes familiar formatting tools such as bold, italics, lists and hyperlinks.
Start Here: Log In
Log in using your Purchase credentials by accessing the Editor Login link in the site footer.
Please Note: Access to the CMS is only available to users who have completed both the LiveWhale onboarding and Accessibility trainings. Please submit a web request form to receive onboarding training by Communications and Creative Services. Accessibility training is offered through the knowbe4 platform upon commencement of employment and every fall, thereafter.
Best Practices
Writing for the web differs from other forms of writing. Before adding content to your page, have a clear content strategy that considers your audience, goals, as well as how visitors will find and use the information. Be concise and intentional. Use bullets and phrases when appropriate.
Editing Pages
Editing a page in LiveWhale is similar to working in Microsoft Word. The toolbar at the top is all you need to begin editing a page on your site.
LiveWhale allows you to publish live or to the staging environment. Publishing to the staging environment is useful if you want to check the display of your content before going live.
LiveWhale also allows you to revert back to a recent earlier version.
Please Note: If you don’t see the Load a previous version of this page’s content link at the top, click outside of a CMS field.
Sharing Content
LiveWhale allows you to share content to other groups when relevant to another program or office.
Accessibility
SUNY Purchase is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have equal access to the college’s programs, activities, services, and digital content.
To maintain CMS publishing privileges, all content editors are required to complete annual accessibility training.
If published content is found to be inaccessible, the Web Team will contact the responsible editor(s) to address the issue. Content that is not remediated in a timely manner may be removed until it meets accessibility standards.
SUNY Purchase complies with all applicable federal and New York State laws and regulations regarding accessibility and equal access.
Please visit the Accessibility subsite for guidelines and resources.