What is the Homepage?

Each Web Site by default contains built-in pages such as homepage, newsletter, and calendar. Users may then edit those pages or add new pages. The homepage is the first page within a Web Site. It is the "guide" to the rest of the site. The homepage is an area to list links to other pages of the site and for adding postings (such as stories, message, and pictures). 

Web Site Administrators can make this feature visible to the general public or keep it a private Web Site feature, visible only to its participants. If the homepage is private, participants must log in before viewing. 

Homepage postings may have a link to "continue" a lead story on a second page. Clicking this link displays the remainder of a story. 

 
Change the Homepage
Guests and participants can view the Homepage, but only Web Site Administrators can change the Homepage. Participants can add postings to the Homepage if the Administrator has given them permission to do so. The Homepage may be changed in the following ways.

Add postings (stories, messages, pictures, multimedia files) to the Homepage: 
Administrators Participants
1. From the Homepage, click the Update Web Site button. 1. From the Homepage, click the Update this Page button.
2. Select Homepage from the drop-down list and click Go To. 2. Click the link "Click to insert a new posting here."
3. Click the link "Click to insert a new posting here." 3. Follow instructions for adding a posting.
4. Follow instructions for adding a posting.  
 

Change the layout of the Homepage (Web Site Administrators Only)

  1. Click Edit Page from the top of the Homepage.

    Or, click Homepage from the Select a page to edit drop-down list at the top of the Web Site Manager. Then, click Go.

  2. You can:
    • Set the style of links on your Homepage (links to other pages in your site).
    • Choose a horizontal menu bar or vertical listing of links with descriptions.
    • Set the links above or below the postings on the Homepage.
    • Decide whether or not to display a search box on your Homepage, and whether it goes on the top or the bottom of the Homepage. 

Change the name and privacy settings of the Homepage  (Web Site Administrators Only)

  1. From the Homepage, click Update Web Site.
  2. The Page settings option governs name and privacy settings.

    You can:

    • Set the Homepage to private or public.
    • Change the name of the Homepage. This name appears as the link to the Homepage in your menu bar.