Navigating within Cascade

Once you have logged into Cascade, you will see the home screen which allows you to perform various functions in the system such as uploading images, add pages, and edit content.

Navigating Files and Folders

File TreeUsing the base folder asset tree found in the left side of the screen, click the Collapse All (-) and Expand All (+) icons to reveal folder structure

Important Information

  • The System Name corresponds to the URL on the SAIT site. System Names may not have spaces or special characters.  
  •  Use hyphens between words rather than juxtaposing words directly together, as your page will be better optimized for search engines this way (i.e., use "staff-information" rather than "staffinformation")
  • Take a look at who-we-are ->
  • The System Name will appear as an html document extension on the live page. For example, notice the index page is within the faqs folder.
  • The URL of the about index page reads as:
    http://www.northwestern.edu/studentaffairs/sait/faqs/index.html

northwestern.edu/studentaffairs/sait

how-to-get-it/

index.html

This is the main server hosting your site.

This is a sub-folder within the northwestern.edu/studentaffairs/sait directory.

This is the name of the Web page “index”; The asset type is indicated by the suffix, or file extensions that follows the period:

Html= web page

Pdf = PDF

Gif or jpg = images