Your home page is usually the first thing anyone sees, whether they're part of the general public or a member of your group. Here are three tips for editing your home page!
1. Button "boxes"
Your home page has some links/buttons which look like this:
You can add another button like this yourself! There are two ways to do this...
You may be able to do it by selecting another button just like it, copying it, then pasting it where you want.
However, sometimes that doesn't work. If so, then you can add the HTML code manually:
1. First, click the Source button to view the HTML code for the whole page.
2. Find the place where you want to put the button.
3. Now, paste in this code: <a class="qbutton" href="dbpage.php?pg=about">Read more</a>
4. Click the Source button again to go back to the normal view.
Once you've made the button, you can edit the "Read more" text to say whatever you want. If you want to change where the link goes, then right-click on it, and choose Edit Link.
2. Undo changes
It's quite easy to mess something up when you're editing the home page. As a result, we recently built a system which lets you undo your changes. You can go back to previous versions of the page, even if you've already clicked "Save" several times.
1. Click the Admin link in the top-right to go to your Admin dashboard.
2. Click on the link which says Log Changes. It looks like this:
3. Now, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and look for the line which says Website Pages. There should be a link on the right which says View. Click on this link...
4. This will give you a list of every time someone edited a page in your HarmonySite. When someone changed the page content, you'll see a comparison of the "New value" and "Old value" – that is, after and before the change respectively.
If you want to undo a change, then look for the Revert button on the right-hand side. You might need to scroll up and/or right to see it – it looks like this:
Click this button, and the page will be back to how it was before the change.
We're still working on the design of this page. If you find it difficult to use, then let us know and we may be able to tweak it for you, e.g. by making it wider.
3. Home page columns
As a rule of thumb: Add new content first, then delete the old content (in particular, when you're replacing an entire column with something new).
This makes it more likely that your edits will go in the right place in the HTML code, and thus in the correct column.
Are you using the new "Mercury" theme? Click the full-screen button to see the columns!
As we've significantly changed the HTML and CSS code in the "Mercury" theme, it's now possible for you to see the columns when you're editing the home page!
Click the full-screen button here:
And the editor will expand, letting you see the columns as they actually look:
Click this button again to go back.