Create a Web Site - Who is the Web Site Administrator?

If you're creating a Web Site (other than your first one), you must identify the Web Site Administrator and Contact. This page displays in the process of creating a Web Site.

If you're creating a Web Site (other than your first one), the system takes you through completing the following items. If you're creating your first Web Site, you only need to choose a style and personalize the Web Site, the first and last bullets. Each option is presented to you as you create the Site.

  • Choose a page style, also referred to as a signature set.
  • Choose whether the site is related or unrelated to any sites you currently administer.
  • Identify the Web Site Administrator and Contact.
  • Personalize the Web Site by entering Site name and description and selecting channels (categories) in which you want this Site listed.

Note: For instructions about creating a Web Site, see Create a related or unrelated Web Site or Add a related Web Site (from Web Site Manager).

The Web Site Contact is the person whose name can appear at the bottom of every page of a Web Site. This is typically the person whom you want visitors and participants of a Site to contact if they have questions about the group or individual to whom the Web Site belongs or about the content of the Web Site pages.

The Web Site Administrator is the person who has administrative and editing rights throughout the Site. This person can change logos, change content, select policies, manage participants, and even delete the Web Site and those below it.

Originally, you must select one person to be both the contact and administrator for the Web Site. Once created, that person can change either or both through the Participant List page.

You have two options.

  • Select yourself as the contact and Web Site Administrator. The User Profile that you are currently logged in with will be then designated as the contact and Web Site Administrator.

  • Select another individual to be the contact and Web Site Administrator. You can select from any of the registered users in the system.

    Note: If you select someone else, you will not have administrative privileges or access to that Web Site unless that person later gives them to you.

  1. To select yourself as the Web Site Administrator, click Click to make me the administrator and contact for this Web Site.
  2. To select another user, complete these tasks:

    • Enter full or partial information in any of these boxes: Username, First Name, Last Name, Email.
    • Click Search for User(s).
    • From the list that appears, click Select next to the name of the person whom you want as the Web Site Administrator.

  3. Next, you can personalize your Web Site. See Create a Web Site - Personalize a Web Site.