Mugo FAQ – How To Use Shared Content From NLLS On Your Website

NLLS creates general seasonal content to help you market your library, including social media and website banners and booklists. You can download or edit the social media here.

Adding things like banners and book lists to your Mugo website normally has two steps: creating the content, then making it viewable by attaching it to a page. NLLS uploads ready-to-use banners and booklists directly to your website’s back end storage, so you only need to complete the second step of making it viewable.

Banners, Featured Cards, and Book Lists

Banners, Featured Cards, and Book Lists are available for the home page only.

1.  Log in to the back end of the site.
2. Along the left-hand side, ensure you are in “Content Structure”.
3. Find your library in the navigation tree and click on your library name beside the house icon to open it. You may need to click the + signs beside Library Sites and/or NLLS to find it.
4. Click the blue “Edit” button near the top right.
5. In the sub-menu second from the left, choose “Layout”.
6. In the “Banner Carousel”, “Featured Card”, or “Book List” block (whichever one you are adding) and click “Add Item”.
7. Mugo will open browsing for you to find the item you want. Open the “Banners”, the “Featured Cards”, or the “Book Lists” folder, then choose which of the “from NLLS” folders you would like to browse.
8. Click the box beside the banner or book list you want to select it, then scroll to the bottom and click “Select”.
9. You will return to the “Layout” location for editing your home page. Click the blue “Send for publishing” button at the top right.

HTML Blocks

HTML blocks can contain all sorts of things, but they are used on the NLLS Reading Programs site to hold our submission forms. These instructions require you to be comfortable with adding and/or editing a page.

HTML blocks are not available for the home page and can only be added to other pages on your website.

1. Log in to the back end of the site.
2. Navigate to the page (in Content Structure) where you would like to add the HTML block.
3. Click the blue “Edit” button at the top right.
4. In the “Body” area of your page, click on the spot in your content where you would like to add the HTML block.
5. In the formatting options at the top of the “Body” area, click the paperclip (“Insert/edit object”).
6. In the window that opens, select the “Browse” tab.
7. From the options just below the tabs, select “Media”.
8. Click on “HTML Blocks”, then open the “Reading Programs Forms (from NLLS)” folder.
9. Click on the radio button beside the form you want to add to your page.
10. From the dropdown beside “Align”, choose the option you want. Usually, this will be “Center”.
11. Click “OK” to save and close the window and return to the page editor.
12. At the top right in the page editor, click the blue “Send for publishing” button.

A printable version of this how-to with screenshots can be found in the links below this article.