Step 1: Go to the Site Administration page

• Need instructions on how to get there? See the Step by Step Instructions to Access the Content Management System.
• Make sure you are on the "Sections" tab.

Step 2: Choose where you would like to locate your new section.

• Each newly created section will be a child of an already existing section.
• If you are just beginning to create your website, your new section will be a child of the home page. Click on the "home" section name listed in the "Sections in your Site" box on the left side (circled below).
• Otherwise, choose the section name that you'd like to be the parent section.

Step 3: Create the new section.

• Click on "Add a Child Section" located in the middle of the page.
• A Section Choice box will appear.
• Enter a title for your new section in the space at the top of the box.
• Click the radio button for the event section type.
• Click the "Create Section" button.

A new window will appear (see below), that looks very much like the one you started out with, but with some important changes:

• The name of the new section you created will appear in the "Sections in Your Site" box on the left. This shows that the new section has been created.
• That same name will also appear at the top center of the page with its section type following in parentheses. This shows that the editing tools are available for that section to be edited when you click the "Edit" button to the right.

Step 4: Open the editing template

• Click on the "edit" button.
• This opens the text editing template for the Section Introduction, which looks like this:

Step 5: Enter text into the template

• Enter the title of the section in the upper box, and the body of information in the larger "Section Intro" box below.
  • Use the text editing tools to format the text.
    • For step by step instructions on how to use the use them, see Using the Text Editing Tools. 
    • Prefer to use HTML to format text?
      • Click on "Switch to HTML Mode" at lower right of the text box
  • Body information usually contains a short description of what type of information the itemized sections will contain or other appropriate introductory material.
• Save text entered by clicking the "Save" button on the upper right.
  • This will send you back to the previous screen.
  • Click on the "edit" button again to get back to the Section Introduction template.
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Step 6: (Optional) Create a calendar display

• This option will display a calendar which will highlight the dates with event items entered. The user may click on the highlighted dates to display specific items associated with that date.
• Click on the "Properties" link on the left navigation bar, under "Configuration".

• This will open the following configuration window:

• Click the "Display Calendar" checkbox (see top circle in image above).

Step 7: (Optional) Choose to continue to display expired events

• If you would like the events section page to continue to display event items whose begin date has already passed, click on the "Display Expired Events on Summary" checkbox (see bottom circle in image above).
• If left unchecked, each item will automatically disappear from the Events section after the begin date is passed.

Step 8: (Optional) Make additional configuration changes

• Generally you won't have to make any additional changes here.
• However, you can change the section's name, shortcut URL, banner design, etc. by using the configuration tools.
• Access them by clicking on the relevant link un "Configurations" on the navigation bar to the left of the text editing template.
• For general, step by step instruction on changing section configuration, click here.

Step 9:  (Optional) Add attachments

• You can add images, audio, video, or create a sidebar, snap poll, etc., by using the attachment tools.
• Access them by clicking on the relevant link under "Attachments" on the navigation bar to the left of the text editing template.
• For step by step instructions on adding attachments, click here.

Step 10: Preview your work.

• Click on the "preview" button on the upper right to see how it will look on the website.
• Return to the editing page by clicking the "Return to Edit Mode" link at the very top of the page (above the banner). Do NOT use your back button on your browser to return or you will lose your work.

Step 11: Save all your work.

• Click on the "save" button on the upper right. This will send you back to the window in step 2 above.

Step 12: Turn on the page you have created.

• Click on the red button to the left of the new section's name so it turns green. This indicates that the section is now visible to the public.
• It can be turned off again by simply clicking on it again to toggle it off. It should turn red again, to indicate that it is no longer visible to the public.

Step 13: View the page on the web.

• Click the "View Site" link on the upper right of the banner.

For step by step instructions to create items for the Event Section, click here.