Setting up Your Organisation

 

  Overview

1. The process starts when you have your login and password, login at /admin/login

2. Set up your organisations page, if an editor place the page in the appropriate section.

3. Set up any events you have planned

4. Make a news item about your organisation being on the site

5. e-mail contact details for the directory to editor@torquay.vic.au

6. If an author let your organisation's editor know to release your work.

If you want to print a copy of this download it from here but think of the forrest!

Login

Setting up a Page

There are two ways you can do this:-

1. Enter your information directly into the site, OR

2. Create a word document and copy and paste into the site.

There is no advantage to one of the other, it's a personal choice. This material was copied from a document. What follows are some pointers to entering your material direct.

Direct Entry Page

After logging in you will see a screen like the one to the left:-

It has buttons for the actions you can take.

Images

Upload these before starting on your page, from Dashboard select "Upload an Image" and follow the prompts.

When you select "Create a page" from the dashboard, the screen is below:-

1. Give your page its title - you organisation's name

2. Type the material into the Body, selecting from one of four formats :- Big, Medium, and Small Headings and Paragraph. (If pasting from word select the button "w" fourth from the right and follow instructions).

• Hyperlinks to other pages (such as your own website) are done via the "chain link" button first from the left in row 2.

• Select the "tree" four in from the left in row two to bring your images in.

1. Scroll down to see:-

      2.  In "Parent Section" select the Category of your organisation from :-

• Community

• Service

• Recreation

• Religious

• Support

        3.  As an Author your page is finished - e-mail / call your editor to have it released. As an editor you can:-

4.  Enable the page and select if it is shown in the Navigation menu (only the main page for an organisation, unchecked for other pages).

Setting up an event

What you will see is:

 

This is like create a page with the addition of:

1. Start and End date, select from the calendar

2. Teaser - that's what will attract a visitor the Body of your text. Body cant be empty but can be fooled with a space.

   That's all there is to it.

Make your news item

Having your organisation on torquay.vic.au is news. When you select "news item" from the dashboard you will see:-

So this now looks quite familiar doesn't it?

You have seen Teaser before under events.

To get the full manual Follow this Link it is quite large but can be downloaded in four smaller chunks.