How to edit/personalize your site
- Login
- From any page on your site, click the login link at the bottom of the page.
- Log in using your username and password sent in the setup confirmation email.
- Navigate to the page you want to edit if you're not already there, you can edit any page on your site without having to login again until you log out by clicking 'Done Editing'.
- Edit Content
- Click the pencil
to add/edit text and/or images
- Text
- You can add/edit text using the toolbar to add bold or italic text, headings, fonts, colors and more.
The 'Heading 3' tag will usually have a background image applied to it. - Pressing 'Enter' on your keyboard adds a paragraph to any portion of the text area
If you find that your text is a mess, you can highlight that text, clear formatting
and start over. - You can resize the text area vertically for inserting larger amounts of text and/or images.
- You can add/edit text using the toolbar to add bold or italic text, headings, fonts, colors and more.
- Images
- Adding/Editing Images
- When adding images, place the cursor at the point in the text box where you want to insert your image and click the add/edit image button.
- Click the 'browse for image' button
- Browse for an image on your computer to Upload to your site OR Select an image from the images currently on your images folder.
Be sure to enter an Image description & Title before clicking Insert .
*This is important for disabled users, screen readers and/or for users who may not have images turned on, on their browsers (the description and Title text can be the same or similar). - At this point you can move the image around the screen by clicking and dragging it and/or align it [left,right,center]
within a paragraph's area.
If your image is hovering too close to the text around it, adjust the vspace (vertical space) and hspace (horizontal space) in the advanced section of the image editor. '3' should be enough for each, but you can use '5' or more if you'd like (don't include the quotes ('')).
- Save Updates/Cancel
- Click 'save updates' to save changes or 'cancel' to stop any changes/updates.
**Each time you click 'save updates', you overwrite the file. If you save an empty textarea, you will write an empty file in place of the file that should be there (text and image(s) will be erased). Please take proper care to back up your files before editing to ensure against loss of data.
- Click 'save updates' to save changes or 'cancel' to stop any changes/updates.
- Move to the next section you'd like to update and/OR
- View Changes
- View the page(s) you've edited in a new window by clicking the view page link.
You may need to 'Refresh' your page to see any recent updates/changes by pressing F5 or Ctrl-R to reload the page.
- View the page(s) you've edited in a new window by clicking the view page link.
- Text
- Click the pencil
- Log Out
- Log out by clicking
Done Editing at the top right of any edit page.
Security note: When you click 'Done Editing', you log out and clear your username/password information from your browser. That way no one else can login and edit your site from your computer.
- Log out by clicking
