Simple Admin

From ITDR Resources

Contents 1 Login to the admin 2 Change your password/username 3 Create an Info or Album Page 4 To Upload images 5 Create a navigation button 6 Make a sub navigation button 7 Set up your Contact Page 8 Set Up your splash Page 9 Set up Music 10 Brand your site

Login to the admin

1. Go to your www.yoursite.com/?admin
2. Enter your username and password
3. Click submit

(HINT: If you installed the website in a sub directory ie: “/sites”, then you will go to www.yoursite.com/site/?admin ) (If you are having issues, please refer to the email sent to you after installation. It will tell you where to login to your admin and where your site lives.)

Change your password/username

1. Login to the admin
2. Click “Dashboard” (already selected as the default)
3. The bottom left panel has two tabs “Change Password” and “Change Username”
4. Follow the instructions
5. Click “Save Changes”

Create an Info or Album Page

1. Click “Content”
2. At the bottom of the “Page List” click the “New” button
3. A “Create New Page” widow will open
4. Add a “Page Title”
5. Use the drop down to select “InfoPage” or “AlbumPage”
6. Click “Create Page”

To Upload images

1. Find and select the page you just created in the list on the left.
2. The two tabs are now click-able on the right panel.
3. Under the “Page Image” tab: Click “Upload”.
4. A browser window will allow you to search for images.
5. Select your images and upload them.
6. Under the “Page Option” tab: add your text in the text field and click “Save”.

(You must wait for all of the images to finish loading before you close the window.( (Please note that if there are a lot of images, you may have to scroll down to see the progress. ) (HINT: Don’t forget to make a Navigation Button for each page that you created.)

Create a navigation button

1. Click “Sitemap”.
2. Under the “Navigation” tab click “New”
3. Type your “Navigation Title”. This is what will appear as the button (ie: about, portfolio, contact)
4. Click “Link to a Page You Created” and select the page you would like that nav button to link to.
5. Click “Save”.

(HINT: You can set your homepage under the “HomePage” tab.)

Make a sub navigation button

1. Click on the main navigation button from the list that you would like the sub navigation button to live under.
2. Under the right panel “Sub Navigation” click “New”.
3. Type the “Navigation title”
4. Click the “Link To A Page You Created” button and select the page you would like to link it to.
5. Click “Save”

Set up your Contact Page

1. Select “Contact”
2. Fill out the information (server email is not necessary unless you know your server requires it)
3. Click “Save”

(HINT: Don’t forget to make a Navigation Button for it.)

Set Up your splash Page

1. Click “Splash Page”
2. Under the tab “Setting”, type you title and description for this page.
3. Click “Save”
4. Click each “Photo” tab to add an image, title, and link
5. Click “Save” after each tab

Set up Music

1. Click Soundtrack
2. Click “Upload” to find a n MP3 file on your computer
3. Click “Done” when the files have finished uploading

Brand your site

1. Click “Design”
2. Add you logo and change your colors settings
3. Click “Save”