By Olivia Justice
August 21, 2019
Category: How To
Sometimes you don't want everypage on your website accessible to the general public. That's why we offer the ability to create private pages that are only accessible to a designated user.
By Olivia Justice
July 24, 2019
Category: Learning, Modules
How to Add, Edit and Delete Photos in the PhotoGrid Module
Does your Virteom powered website have a photo gallery on it? Adding new photos to your gallery is really simple and even allows you to upload multiple images at one time.
In this how-to article, we explain how to add new photos to the gallery, remove photos from a gallery, add captions and delete your photo gallery.
Logging-In
First things first, you must log-in to your Virteom powered website. You can do this by visiting your website and adding /virteom at the end. This will take you to the log-in screen for the site.
Enter your email address in the email field
Enter your password in the password field
Click Login
Navigate to the PhotoGrid Module
Once youre logged-in you click Dashboard from the top gray editor menu.
After clicking Dashboard use the left sidebar menu to navigate over to Modules.
The module that handles gallery images is called PhotoGrid. Find PhotoGrid in the menu and click it.
Now that you
By Hayley Burke
July 08, 2019
Category: How To
Virteom shares our tech knowledge with you on how to never miss an email again by whitelisting email senders that you trust!
By Olivia Justice
June 18, 2019
Category: WordPress
Plugin updates are the major drawback to running your own CMS via WordPress instead of using a managed service like Virteom for your CMS. At Virteom, we use our own custom built CMS called RocketSites.
By Olivia Justice
May 07, 2019
Category: Modules, Learning, How To
So , what do you do if you need to update the footer on your RocketSite? Have no fear! With RocketSites, it's really easy to go in and make edits to the footer of your website all on your own.
By Olivia Justice
January 28, 2019
Category: How To, Navigation, Menus
Want to change the order in which your navigation items appear? Want to remove or add a menu item? No worries, this is all possible within Virteom CMS.
Rearranging menu items in virteom cms
To start rearranging the order, your menu-items appear login to the back-end of your website.
Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (yourdomain.com)/virteom
Enter Email
Enter Password
Click Login
Once you log in, click on Site Pages or Navigation from the menu.
Once you arrive at your Navigation, youll notice the pages of your website have a distinct hierarchy. The pages on your site show in a tree layout - meaning the topmost item is the main menu item, and the pages that appear below it (indented) are children of the menu items. This, in turn, is used to determine how the navigation on your website will appear. For example, if you have a menu on your website that looks like this:
the corresponding navigation in Virteom would look like this:
In this example, Services is
By Olivia Justice
January 21, 2019
Category: Learning, ECommerce
Do you have a product that you do not currently wish to offer your clients in your Virteom shopping cart? We can help! Follow along with this how-to guide to start enabling or disabling products.
By Olivia Justice
August 17, 2018
Category: Navigation, Pages
In this how-to article, we'll go over how to link to external web pages in your navigation and how to link to documents.
By Virteom
August 02, 2018
Category: Responsive
Web devs throw around responsive website to say that your website will look good on any device or screen. But what if you spot noticeable differences when your looking at it in IE vs. Chrome?
By Olivia Justice
July 17, 2018
Category: How To
If you need to change your password in Virteom CMS (or Rocketsites 1.0) follow the directions outlined below:
Log-in with your current credentials
Visit your website/virteom to log-in to the back-end of your website and enter your current credentials:
Navigate to Member Management
After you log-in:
Rocket Sites 1.0 -- Choose Dashboard from the top navigation
Virteom CMS -- Choose Manager from the top navigation
From the left-hand menu Choose Members
Find Your Name / Account
Once you are on the members page, search for your name (or locate it on the page) and click Edit
Change your Password
Now that you are on your member page:
1. Update your password by typing a new password in the Password box
2. Click Save
Your Password is now updated!
If you need any further assistance, please send a request in to our help desk!
By Virteom
June 18, 2018
Category: Clear Cache
If you have owned a computer for any length of time you likely have experienced the dread of internet slow down. If it gets bad enough that you need to reach out for technical support one of the first things that they will tell you to try is to clear your browser cache. But what does clearing your cache even do? Why does it help?
What is Your Browser Cache?
Your cache is the name for a portion of your hard drive that is dedicated to storing browser files that your browser determines it may need to use again. Web pages are packed with information, and this information is stored in dozens, hundreds and sometimes thousands of files for just one site. Your browser will cache portions of the page for you so in future visits load times are quicker, improving your overall internet experience.
Why Should I Clear my Cache?
Your browser will store things like files, CSS styles, JavaScript scripts, images, and other multimedia content. That is why when youre working with a web development firm
By Olivia Justice
October 11, 2017
Category: Modules
In Virteom CMS you are unable to change the URL of a page. Why? Because you're SEO is at risk. In this how-to guide we explain how to add redirects to your website.
By Virteom
October 05, 2017
Category: User Access, Learning
With Virteom, website administrators can choose which members have access to certain areas on the site. For example, you would want your blogger to have access to create and edit blog pages. You can make different levels of users, from customers and staff, to full admins. Lets get started.
After logging in as an admin, select Dashboard (or Manager) from the top bar. Then, on the left hand side, select Members. This will bring up a screen showing all of the members who are registered to your site. You can also search for a members name using the Search field. Click on Edit next to a members name.
Here is the user access part of the next screen. You can edit contact information, change a users password, and update user access from this area.
Editing Access and Permissions
Box 1 is a list of all of the administration features a user has access to. In this example, this user has access to all features. Explore the list on your site and determine how you wish to set up access.
Box 2 is
By Olivia Justice
September 29, 2017
Category: Search Engine Optimization, How To, Learning
Your appearance on search engines is effected by things that are managed behind the scenes. Your meta tags, meta descriptions and browser titles are all easy to edit in Virteom's CMS!
By Olivia Justice
September 13, 2017
Category: Buttons
This how to guide gives you everything you need to know to add button styles like the ones that are already on your site...
By Olivia Justice
August 22, 2017
Category: Forms, Form Submissions
Worried you may have missed a lead? Checking who has submitted a form on your website is easy with form submissions. Form submissions allow you to see who has submitted a response to any form on your website in one Excel file.
Keep reading to learn how to access your form submissions in Virteom CMS.
Login to the CMS
Click on Manager
Click on Forms on the left-hand side
Click on Submissions on the left-hand side underneath forms
Choose What Form Youd like to see Submissions
From the dropdown menu select the form you would like to see submissions for. The dropdown menu goes by thename of the form.
Export Submission(s) to Excel
Now that you are on the form youd like to see submission for, click the Click to ExportxxSubmission(s) To Excel
Check that you did not miss a lead!
The file will export as an Excel Spreadsheet. You can view all of your form submissions that have come through on the specific form you chose on this spreadsheet. If youd like to
By Mike Harries
July 20, 2017
Category: Learning, Content
Do you have a marketing video youd like to add to your Virteom powered website? No worries, its a breeze to add new videos to any content region on your website. Thishow-toguide takes you through how to add a YouTube or Vimeo video to your Virteom Powered website.
Keep reading to learn how to embed a video on your website:
how to embed a video on rocketsites
Login To Your Site
To make edits to your websites, youll need to log-in first:
Login to the back-end of your website by visiting (your URL.com)/virteom
Enter your username
Enter your password
Click Login
Navigate to the page youd like to embed a video on
Once you log in, click on Site Pages or Navigation from the menu.
Navigate to the page you would like to embed a Youtube or Vimeo video to. (Via Site Pages in the top toolbar or through your navigation)
Click Editor from the top of yourtoolbar
Click the content area in which you would like to add the YouTube video to.
After clicking into the content region youd like
By Olivia Justice
March 24, 2017
Category: How To, Image Resize
Is your website powered by Virteom CMS? Do your images look good on your laptop but not on your 4k monitor? Are your pictures a good size on desktop but become oversized or deformed on a mobile device? More than likely youre using pixels to set the dimensions of your photos, but is that the best way? This article will explain how you should be sizing the images on your Virteom powered website so that they look good across all devices.
As you make edits and additions to the pages of your website you find yourself adding images to support your content. Typically, the size of your image is too large for your page and with the popup picture below you set dimensions of your image using pixels:
Setting your images dimensions using pixels is what makes your image stretch on your cell phone or from one screen to another. You dont want to use pixels to set the dimensions of your images.
For example: Here we have a picture of a tablet:
Once we add it into the image uploader we see the width
By Olivia Justice
February 13, 2017
Category: Sidebar Menu, Page Information
Does your Virteom powered website have a sidebar menu? Do you need to know how to edit, delete or add links to the sidebar menu? This How To guide gives you step by step instructions.
By Olivia Justice
February 09, 2017
Category: How To, Info Boxes, Modules
Do you need to add, edit or delete an info box on your Virteom powered website? This how to article gives step by step direction on exactly that! Follow along!
