A guide for using the tools offered via the website
If you are not authorised please leave this page, only authorised Herne Bay Sailing Club members are allowed to view this and subsequent pages. All activity is monitored and prosecution may occur under the relveant UK laws.
This section aims to give you, as part of the web content team, information on how to use the website to:
- Add and maintain Pages
- Add and maintain Stories that appear the home page
- Add and maintain the event list
- Create and send news letters to all members
If there are items which are not coivered or not clear then please do not hesitate to call Gary Mackman on 07801 421 980 or email using gary@garymackman.com.
Thanks
Gary
Add and maintain the event list
The aim of this page is to give details on how to add event details to the site.
Create and send newsletters to all members
A Newsletter is the method of emailing the club membership.
This page details what is required to send them, it does assume that you have logged into the webiste before following the instruction set below.
You must adhere to the following:
- Do not use your personal email address on the newsletters use something@hernebaysailingclub.co.uk
- Ensure you use the correct email signature at the bottom of the newsletter. Details of this can be found at the top of the page when you create a newsletter.
To send a news letter to all members of the website:
- Click on "Create content" on the left hand side
- Click on "Newsletter issue"
- In the field labbelled "Title", enter the title of the newsletter. This is what appears as the Subject of the email that os delivered.
Tip: Do not use all upper case words and keep it to the point!
- Choose "Herne Bay Sailing Club" in the Newsletter drop down list
- Click on "Input format" and choose "Full HTML"
- Click on "Newsletter sending options" and choose "HTML" as the format
- Make sure that you test your news letter by selecting "Send one test newsletter to the test address" and enter your email address in the box - Click "Send" to send the email to the address you entered - Click Preview to view the text and once happy ensure that
- To send the newsletter, click on "Newsletter sending options" and choose "Send newsletter" and click on submit