Updating your club homepage
There are two options for updating your club home page; the first doesn't allow you to upload pictures, the second does. A certain amount of knowledge is required for the picture upload - but it isn't too difficult and shouldn't stop anyone trying! See the article on 'Adding Pictures to your Reports' for more information on this topic.
1) Click on the 'Club Homepage' link. The following screen appears;
The tick boxes at the top allow you to choose if you want to display various options on your club home page - it's up to you! You can also follow the link to get a club 'care-clicks' account and enter the appropriate URL in the form. W3C validation allows you to check that your page conforms to web standards to make it easier for visually impaired people to access your website.
The 'About' field is blank at the moment, as you haven't entered any text or pictures. Note that there is a word-processor like toolbar, so when you have written text, you can change the lettering style, alignement etc.
If you have a lot of text to add, it is much quicker, and easier, if you write your article on your word-processor first, then copy and paste it into place. THEN CLICK THE 'CLEANUP WORD' icon and also the 'clear font tags' icon, to ensure a consistent view across the site. Though you might favour some peculiar font on your computer doesn't mean that everyone else either has the font or likes it!
NB - there is a server time-out in place, so if you spend 25 minutes writing your article, then click 'update homepage', ALL YOUR WORK AND EFFORT WILL BE WASTED as you will have been 'logged out' automatically. It is best to do a bit at a time, update, then come back to the page and add some more.
When you are happy with the results, click the 'Update Homepage' button at the bottom of the form.
Next time you visit this page, your existing text will be displayed.
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2) Click on the 'Club Homepage - ADVANCED' link.
Youw will see the page is almost identical - the major dfference being on the 'insert' toolbar (the bottom row of the HTML Editor) there are two buttons allowing yu to upload documents (pdf files, powePoint presentations, zips files etc) and Media (pictures, movie clips, flash movies, sound clips etc)
To find out more about these features see 'Using the Editor and Adding Pictures to your Reports'
The next topic is 'Adding your Charter Celebrations'