SiteMasonry Tutorial

Guidelines for how to best use heading elements h1 through h6 to structure your content for accessibility and SEO

Academic program pages let you make a centralized promotional page that can be called upon from any SiteMasonry site connected to Content Hub. This is particularly handy as news stories frequently mention academic programs tied to people or events going on.

This content type is formatted to display a person’s name, photo, position, contact information, and bio, among other things. Once a profile is made, it can be connected to news stories to highlight those featured in the story.

If you want to make your article more appealing, you can add elements to your article on that page to better attract people to your content.

A highly-engaging news story with optimized formatting increases human readability, accessibility, and searchability. Learn how to make a news story within SiteMasonry.

Building marketing landing pages on SiteMasonry is as easy as building a regular page. OUB Digital Strategist, Kristin Heydt shows you how.

SiteMasonry Site Owners are able to issue Content Editor accounts.

SiteMasonry's versioning workflow allows content to be modified in an un-published Draft state without changing the publically viewable (Published) version of the page or content item (news item, profile, or program)

George Mason University is committed to ensuring an inclusive digital experience. Both the SiteMasonry and Mason WordPress themes comply with Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA standards. One essential practice to maintain accessibility is adding descriptive alt text to images.

The SiteMasonry's distributed content library, Content Hub, allows editors to add and share news articles, faculty profiles, and program descriptions to any (or all) sites on the SiteMasonry platform. Here's how to edit an existing item in Content Hub.