| Getting started |
Click the little "cross" icon in the top right (fourth of the five icons) and if necessary log in. If you need it, there will be a "password" box. If you don't know the password, ask the Chairman or anyone else who edits the site. For obvious reasons, passwords shouldn't be on public view on the website itself!
After doing that, you'll have lots of site-updating options available. The ones I always use are News and Menu.
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| Notes |
1. It's possible to confuse yourself by opening the website in multiple browser tabs. Updating the website in one browser tab won't auto-update anything you'd been looking at previously in other browser tabs! Just close those. They're now inaccurate and out of date.
2. To jump out of "editing" mode and see the website like anyone else, click on the "Home" link in the top left.
3. If you click "Administration" and then "Web Administration" in the menu on the left, that page also has some information about updating this website.
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| Menu |
The Menu tab lets you add a completely new page. Click Menu followed by Amend to add, remove and move around pages in the menu.
Note: after adding an empty page, you'll still need to populate it with "News Items".
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| News |
The News tab lets you update an existing website section. Clicking there yields a list of sections. Clicking on one leads to the "View Item" tab. Edit the page, then click the "Save" button in the top left. (This is important! If you don't do it, all your updates will be lost.)
Your updates will then be on the website.
You can also add new boxes by clicking "Add News Item". (These don't have to be news! "News Item" is simply this site's term for a section on a page.)
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| News Items "Source" button |
When editing a "News Item", one of your most powerful options is the "Source" button in the top left of the grey text-editing bar. This lets you edit the raw page HTML... but that might confuse anyone who doesn't know what raw HTML looks like!
So, for example, when updating the RealBridge links on the page, I edit the appropriate news item, click "Source" and see this:
[p style="text-align: center;"][span style="font-size:xx-large;"]
Last link: [a href="https://play.realbridge.online/du.html?p=240822129000&q=njbOIOg4ryNJ"] Thursday 22 August [/a]
[/span][/p]
...which isn't very human-readable. NOTE: that's slightly wrong because I had to replace pointy brackets with square brackets. "Helpful" Bridgewebs software hates the idea of displaying raw HTML (even though that's what I wanted here) and was re-editing what I'd typed to display a clickable url, even to the point of ignoring HTML escape characters. Grrrr.
Anyway, "Source" view lets you update clickable links with both the url to visit (e.g. "https://play.realbridge.online/etc.") and the link text that people will actually read (e.g. "Thursday 22 August"). I get the url by visiting the Wantage Bridge Club website, right-clicking on the relevant link and choosing "save url".
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