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These instructions were written by Sophia Kelly ( http://www.sophiakelly.ca ) who designed and set up the site. They are designed for review for people who are responsible for updating their ADC's page and have attended the training, and to provide the minimum basics for those who are unable to attend the training.

Logging in and getting to your page to edit it:

  1. Go to www.adultdaycentres.org and click on 'login' enter in the username and password that was issued to you by Charlene and click on the button.
  2. You will now see, near the top of the page a link called 'turn admin on' and your login userid should be near it. Click on 'turn admin on'.
  3. On the left hand side should be a link to your centre. Click on it. (You will only be able to edit pages that belong to you.) When you arrive you should see little buttons that have an X, the word 'edit' and the word 'cut'. There will initially be two sets. The one on top has a picture of a page, and the one below has a big W in it. The one with the picture of the page (nearer the top of the page) is for changing settings to do with the page, like redirecting it to a site somewhere else if your ADC already has a website you want this page to jump to (see instructions below). The one below is called an 'article' and is used for putting text informaiton on the page. You can have as many articles as you want on a page, but will initially be provided with one. To add or change information in this article, just click the 'edit' button for the article and a new window will come up where you can change the text that is in the article.
  4. When you have finished changing the text of the article, just click on the 'save' button to save your changes and return to the page. If you make a mistake and don't want to save the changes, then press the 'back' button on your browser (usually at the top) to go back without saving.
  5. If you want to add a picture to go with your text, before saving the article, click on the browse button and navigate to a picture saved on your computer that you would like to use. Click on the picture file and then click on the 'open' button to return to to the article. Then click on the 'save' button (near the top) to save the article and picture and return to your page.

To make your page automatically redirect someone to your website somewhere else.

  1. Click on the 'edit' button corresponding to the page (see above).
  2. Enter your website address (including the http part) into the box labeled with the word redirect.
  3. Select 'open in new window'
  4. Click on the 'save' button on your screen.

Adding more pages under your page

  1. Start on the page for your ADC. (you must be logged in with admin turned on - see above)
  2. In the top left corner of the screen there should be a drop-down menu. Open it up and select 'page' from the list.
  3. Enter the name of the page (as you would like it to show up in the bar on the left side of the page) in the title box.
  4. Click on the 'save' button

Adding an article to your page

    1. Start on the page you want the article to be on. (you must be logged in with admin turned on - see above)
    2. In the top left corner of the screen there should be a drop-down menu. Open it up and select 'article' from the list.
    3. Enter the Title of the article (as you would like it to show up above the article in the title box.
    4. Type or paste in any text you would like to show in the article. Tip: you can copy and paste in information from another web site or from a word document into this space and it will show up with similar formatting.
    5. Add a picture if desired (see above) 
    6. Click on the 'save' button
    7. Advanced Tip: if you have more than one article on the page, you can click on the up or down arrow next to the articl to move it up or down the page relative to the other articles in it's section.

A note about pictures

If you want your picture to be in a specific place in your article or be a certain size there are ways to do that using special 'macros' in webgui. This will likely be covered in the training, but is beyond the scope of a simple instruction sheet. If you'd like to figure it out for yourself, you may wish to experiment with the macros located under a button labelled with a ^# on top of the text editing window. In order to use a macro with a picture, that picture must be uploaded to the site first using the collateral feature. This feature is located in the top-right dropdown menu.

More things to do

If you would like to add calendars, polls, questionaires, user submission systems (places where visitors can enter comments or other information) and other interesting features using this webgui software, they are added similarly to adding an article, from the same menu. If you would like to change the layout of the page, you can clikc the edit button for the page (see instructions under 'redirect' above) click on the tab that says layout, and experiment with other layouts. When using different layouts you need to edit each article's layout section as well, to tell webgui which numbered zone you would like it to show up in.

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