Minisite Help

• Setting up a minisite

  • (i) Configure
  • (ii) Title & Description
  • (iii) Navigation
  • (iv) Homepage
  • (v) Links
  • (vi) Sidebars

Setting-up your own mini-website or 'minisite'

Once you have logged-in[1], selected 'enter edit mode' [2] and then accessed your area of the site by clicking-on either 'my folder' or your user-name from the navigation sidebar, simply select the 'folder contents' action tab from the navigation bar above your homepage.

Next, select the 'add new item' button and scroll-down the list of options you are presented with until you come to the item headed 'minisite' .

Now, click-on the 'add item' button which, as you will see, automatically opens-up the 'special actions' action tab and you are presented with the option to 'configure' your minisite.

(i) Configure

When you select the 'configure minisite' button, you are offered a number of possible 'special actions' by which you can set-up and personalise your new minisite. Once you have configured your minisite, to return to this list of possible actions, select the 'special actions' tab from the navigation bar at the top of the page you are working-in, at any time.

Following configuration of your minisite, the first of the 'special actions' available to you is headed 'adding users' .

Here, you are able to allow another user of your choice to take an active role within your minisite - with the level of their participation dependent on the status that you give them. (See 'access heirarchy').

To add a new user, select the 'add a new contenteer' button and you are presented with a form headed 'Please Register' . Fill-in the required-fields and click-on the 'register' button to add your chosen user.

To give your newly added-user a status within your minisite, hit the 'delegation' [3] action tab from the navigation bar and you are presented with a section headed 'assigning local roles' . Click-on the 'assign local role to a selected user' button and you are given a list of possible status levels - such as 'officer' - only one of which you can then select and assign to your added-user.

The remaining 'special actions' open to you within your minsite are:

(ii) Title and Description

To change the details of your site under the section headed 'minisite title and description' .

Here, simply title or retitle and describe your minisite as you choose and then select the 'save new details' button to effect any changes you have made.

(iii) Navigation

To set-up your minisite' s navigation bar under the section headed 'minisite navigation'

Under this option, you can select up to six documents to be included in your minisite' s navigation bar.

The first link is automatically established as your minisite' s 'default homepage' .

(Links to photoalbums, forums, folders and other sites are handled automatically).

To change the style of your site under the section headed 'minisite stylist'

Changing the style of your minisite simply requires that you choose from one of the four styles offered and then click-on the radio button beneath your preferred choice. Now select the 'change' button to give your minisite its new style.

NB: You may now need to use the 'refresh' button on your browser to see the results of your new style.

(iv) Homepage

To change or set up your minisite' s defaulted home page under the section headed 'creating your minisite' s homepage (default page)' .

You must set up a homepage (default page) to enable other users to follow a link your minisite. To do so, select the 'create default page' button and you will then be presented with a form. to create your homepage. Fill-in the required fields, click-on the 'save' button and your homepage will then be created.

NB: Once you have created a default homepage, you cannot effect changes to it from the 'creating your minisite' s homepage (default page)' section using the 'create default page' option. To do so - or to replace it with another type of item such as a 'forum' - you must remove or rename any previous index_html object from your minisite folder first by selecting the 'minisite folder contents' link shown.

(v) Links

Make the link to your minisite point to another website under the section headed 'create an automatic link to another site'

To do so, select the 'create redirection' option and fill-in the required fields on the form you are then presented with. Select the 'save' button to effect your changes.

NB: This button may not work if you have already created a default homepage. If you need to remove a redirection go to the 'url of your minisite/folder_contents' and delete 'index_html' .

(vi) Sidebars

Finally, to configure the sidebar elements of your minisite under the section headed 'minisite sidebars' .

Selecting the labelled drop-down menus within any of the above sections presents you with simple steps to follow in order to carry-out any of the 'special actions' available to you as you so choose.

[1] Upon entering the site, users MUST 'log-in' in order to input, edit or manage any elements of content.

[2] You MUST select this option in order to input, edit or manage elements of content.

You will also find, as you navigate the site, that there may be certain areas in which a 'manage content' option will appear. When it does so, by selecting this option you can manage the content of the area that you are in??