Managing your Website
Welcome
This is your new support website, where we cover in many tutorials all the content management possibilities of your website. The support website is always a work in progress, but we hope it will already be of good use to you in your first “webmastering” steps
Please read Before you start for some important information!
As you will remember from past communication, your National Bailliage website is a mixture of international content and local content. The tutorials will explain how you can recognise what content is local or international, but know that all of your websites come fully preloaded with a full international content, that you do not need to manage at all, except for the eventual translations into additional languages.
The Headquarters team has also invested a lot of effort in creating a good number of local pages, on each Bailliage’s behalf, to demonstrate how they can be organised, constructed and eventually duplicated by your team. Feel free to edit all that you want in these pages, events or news, they are entirely yours to manage, or even delete if you wish to.
We have also prepared a special demo version of the website to give examples of the basic pages you can have in a Bailliage website: see it here http://example.chainedesrotisseurs.com
As a general guideline in how to approach the possibly daunting task of webmastering your website, we recommend:
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If you want to offer your content in another language than English and French, define the extra language at the very beginning. You can also decide to deactivate the French language if you don’t need it.
Set your languages -
Check out the list of existing pages in the Back Office. You can reorganise the structure of the pages as you wish. Using the tutorials, you will learn how to change the location of whole sections, move individual pages in a section, make some pages inactive and even delete some. And of course, create new pages.
Manage your pages -
Translations: all international content will be provided in both English and French, so you will have to translate this content into your local language(s), or disable (even temporarily) the local language version of a page while it is not ready. We of course recommend that you do translate the international content into your language, but we understand it requires a lot of work.
Working with languages -
News, events: this is probably high on your to-do list. Advertise an upcoming event, or report on some interesting happening by using the events and news creation tools, and then include them automatically in your web pages.
Manage your news
Manage your events - In general: prepare your content before going to the Back Office.
- Write your text beforehand: most often you will need a title, a description text, a few specific keywords, and then the full text you wish to put on your page (for example).
- Prepare your photos if you plan to use them. We strongly recommend, for your benefit, that you take the time to reduce the size of images beforehand, if they are in Hi-Res at the start. As a rule of thumb, most of your images should be less than 500 Kb. Again this will make your life easier when you are uploading them on the back office. This applies in general to all images, be they for page content, news, galleries or other uses.
- If you plan to use videos, they have to be uploaded on one of the usual video platforms, such as YouTube or Vimeo, where you copy the “Embed” code and include it in your pages
The tutorial website will be expanded with more content depending on your feedback, so do come back regularly for more advice and recommendations, and let us know what you think.
Vive la Chaîne!