Editing Your Member Home Page
1. To start editing and adding to your member folder home page, first login to the site.
2. After you login, click on the "my folder" link in the blue bar in the upper right of the site.
3. This will list out the contents of your member folder. There should be at least one file in the list. It should be titled something like "Home Page for" and your username. Click on the title of the file. The will bring up your home page.
4. Click on the edit tab in the green bar at the top of the page. This brings up your home page in edit mode.
5. You see three main sections that you can edit - short name, title, description and body text.
- short name is the filename that the site uses for linking. Don't change this field
- title is the title of the page and will appear at the top of the page in larger type and bold type.
- description is a place to add a short description of the page. It will appear right below the title at the top in bold text. If you don't want a description you can leave it blank.
- body text is the area were you can enter text and information you want on your page. It's the main content or body of the page.
6. When you are done editing the page, click save to save all your changes.
7. If this is the first time you've added information or edited the page, then it's probably not published yet and thus only you can see the page. To make the page visible to the world, you need to publish the page. You can tell if the page is visible to other or not, by "state" is listed in the green bar in the upper right. If it says visible or private, then only you can see it. If it says publish, then it's visible.
8. To publish the page so others can see it, click on the "State:" drop down and select "publish". The page will reload and tell you that it has published.