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Setting Up Your Homepage

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Get ready to tell the world about your meeting in a few easy steps!

Most of the information on the homepage will be visible to both Quakers and Seekers, unless you set it to private.  More on that later.  You will enter some basic information on your meeting which will help people find you both on the internet and in person.

Depending on your level of comfort you can start filling out the fields, or you can follow along step by step.  The next section will feature screen shots on the top and bottom half of the page opened up by the Edit tab.


Screen shots of the Edit screen

When you click the Edit tab on your homepage, this is what will appear on your screen.  Variations due to your settings, browser, and of course input may make it appear slightly different than what is here.

 

Figure 1.1 this is similar to what you will see when you click the edit tab. 

Definitions of Fields

Group Meeting: This is based on FGC records.  If this is not how you identify your meeting you may change it.  Remember, if you change it this        will also change the URL!

Status:  Please leave this as In Progress. It is related to internal functionality of your site.

Related Meeting or Organization: This is also related to internal functionality; please let me know if this does not appear to correctly identify your meeting.

Group Owner:  This is you!  Your username is usually the beginning of your email address, before the ampersand (@) sign.

Logo:  This will appear on the top right of your homepage.  It will be about the size of a postage stamp.

Banner Image:  This will be a much larger image displayed on your site.  Many meetings choose a picture of the meetinghouse for this image.

Description:  This gives you an opportunity to share some details on your meeting.

Featured on Homepage: This allows you to decide what content will go to the top of your homepage (more on that later)

Group Subtitle:  This will appear under your meeting name.

Meeting Times:  This allows you to detail the meeting times, and the format is fairly open allowing you to give as much information as necessary.

Phone/Contact Email/Facebook/Twitter: Not every meeting will have information in these fields, but if you do, links will appear so that people will have more options to reach you.

**Remember, not all fields have to be filled in right now**


 

Let's get started filling in these fields!

Group Name

This is what we thought your meeting name was, based on the best information we had available.  If this is not how you identify your meeting you may change it by typing in a different name.  Remember, if you change it this will also change the URL.  After you save your page, be sure to save you new address! 

Logo

The logo will appear in the top right corner of the homepage.  To put a picture here you click on choose file, select a file from your library and click upload (see figure 1.2 – 1.6).

Banner Image

The banner image will appear in the middle of the homepage.  To put a picture here you click on choose file, select a file from your library and click upload (see figure 1.2 – 1.6).  Once you have the banner image uploaded, you will have the opportunity to adjust your picture by clicking manage image crops

 

Figure 1.2 click on Choose File to open a picture from your computer.

 

Figure 1.3 Select the file from your computer’s photo library and click Open. 

 

Figure 1.4 Click upload to put the file on your page. 

 

Figure 1.5 You will see a small version of your logo after it is uploaded.  Clicking Remove will allow you to take the logo off if you need to. 

 

 

Figure 1.6 Upload a Banner Image the same way you uploaded a logo.  The only difference is that you can click Manage Image Crops to change which part of the picture will be visible to your users.

Description

You can add quite a lot of text that will appear under your banner on your homepage.  You can cut and paste from Word, or type directly on to the page.  This is your first opportunity to really consider the content you are presenting on your meeting on the Quaker Cloud (Figure 1.7).

Group Subtitle

The group subtitle will appear under the title of the meeting in the top left corner of the homepage (Figure 1.7).

Meeting Times

You can type or cut and paste your meeting times in to this field.  Some meetings who already have a website choose to cut and paste this information right onto their cloud site.  It’s that easy (Figure 1.7)!

Figure 1.7 Fill in some information on the description of your meeting, a subtitle, and meeting times.  Later in the manual we will revisit the Featured on Homepage option.

Contacting your meeting

The last fields on the edit screen are optional, but very handy if you would like Quakers and Seekers to be able to reach you easily.  If you do not have an email, twitter, or Facebook account for your meeting, it’s easy and free to get started with any of these social media.

 

Figure 1.8 Here you can choose how people can contact you and learn more about your meeting beyond your Quaker Cloud site.  All information in this section is optional.

After you have filled in your content on the edit page click save. 

Remember, not all of these fields need to be filled in!  You can also come back. Once you click save (it’s very important, that’s why it’s repeated!) you will be taken back to your homepage.  We have included a screen shot of what your page may look similarly to at this point in the process (Figure 1.9).

 

Figure 1.9 Congratulations!  You now have a site facing the public on the cloud.

 

Other fields outside of the Edit tab

There are a few places you may want to add to content that are not on the edit page. From the homepage you can give people directions to your meeting, add additional information to your page, and navigate to the administering the member directory (*feature still in development*).

 

How do people find my meeting?

A Google map will appear on your homepage, at this time the features are fairly limited but still helpful when locating your meeting.

Once you are back on your homepage, click on Add Address Figure 1.10)– it’s found just below Worship with us! – this will take you to a new page where you can enter your address (Figure 1.11) by clicking add address. Hitting save will take you back to your homepage.  If you want to add additional addresses you can do this from the homepage.  You can create distinctions between these addresses but giving each of them a title when adding them to your page.

 

Left Arrow: Click here to add your address

 

Figure 1.10 This is the page you where you will enter information about the address of your meeting. 

 

Figure 1.11 This is the page you where you will enter information about the address of your meeting. 

 

 

Add Sidebar Box

What can you do with this field?  The short answer is anything.  Some meetings may use this, some may not.  If you do choose to use this, click on Add Sidebar Box, (Figure 1.12) and you will be taken to a new page where you can fill in information about a title and content (Figure 1.13).  Click on save and this will appear at the bottom right of your homepage. 

 

Figure 1.12 Find Add Sidebar Box near the bottom right of the page. 

Figure 1.13 This is the page you where you will enter the information that will appear at the bottom right on your homepage. 

Congratulations!  You now have completed a public facing website for Quakers and Seekers to learn more about your meeting.  In the next few chapters you will learn how to add content to your site. 

 

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