Your Control Panel

The Control Panel gives each authorised member the facilities to create and maintain their own web pages within the framework of this website. It will also enable you to make use of social networking facilities which have been built into the system

You can create as many pages as you wish, but in general most people have one main 'Home Page' which they use to display information about themselves - eg. contact details, CV's etc.

You can also use the Control Panel to upload files (eg. WORD docs, PDFs, audio and media files etc.) which are then linked to your webpages.

Your Web Pages

As mentioned above, you have your own home page, but you can create any number of other web pages as well. These other pages are classified as General, Blog Entry, News Item or Article. The system uses these classifications to organise your pages for you, keeping all the articles in one place, the Blog entries in another etc.

As well as creating web pages you can also upload resources. A resource is a Picture, Download File, Web links or a Video Link. Once created a resource can be attached to a web page.

Below is a description and explanation of the links on the control panel:

Preferences

On the preferences page you can:

suspend your home page from the site by changing your status from ACTIVE to SUSPENDED
set the READ ACCESS to PUBLIC or MEMBERS. If it is set to PUBLIC, any visitor to the site will be able to view your personal web pages. If it is set to MEMBERS, only members who have logged on with a password will be able to view your pages - members of the general public will not have access.

Private Data

Private Data is basically a form containing contact information and a section for resetting/changing your password.

Home Page Data

The control panel gives you access to a number of forms that allow you to update your home page data.

Managing Your Image and Resource Files

You use the Manage Your Image and Resource Files facility to upload to the server the images and download files that you want to use on your pages. It can also be used to delete these files from the server.

When a file is uploaded a resource record is automatically created for it. You can choose choose whether to add this resource to your home page.

More information can be found on the file upload help page.

Creating And Updating Web Page

The Create A Web Page and Update Web Pages functions allow you to add and maintain additional web pages.

Creating And Updating Resources

The Create A Resource function allows you to create new resource records. When a file is uploaded a resource record is created for it, so for picture and download file resources this function is not normally required. However, it is required to create video link and web link resources.

The Update Resources functions allow you to add and maintain all types of resource.

Resource On The Home Page

Each resource record has an Add To Home Page option, which if set to 'Yes' adds the resource to the home page.

Resource On Other Web Pages

Use the web page update function to add resources other web pages. (It can also be used to remove resources from web page.)

Private, Member and Public Data

Your data is divided into Private Data, Member Data and Public Data. The Private Data is not shown to other users (unless you give them access to your control panel.) The Member Data is only shown to other members. The Public Data is shown to all visitors to the site.