Getting Started With the Form Section
Step 1: Go to the Site Administration page

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 directory 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.
    • Prefer to use HTML to format text?
      • Click on on "Switch to HTML Mode" at lower right of the text box.
  • 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.
  • 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..

Step 6:  (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.
  • See  instructions for Adding Attachments for more information.

Step 7: (Optional) Make configuration changes.

  • You can change the section's name, shortcut URL, banner design, set security measures and move the section around 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.

Step 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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 11: 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 a form, click here.