Private Area

The Private Area is much like your main website, in fact it is a ‘micro site' and  you can create pages, upload images, add documents and use standard page facilities like photo album, weblog, discussions etc just like the main site, but it can all be out of the public view.

• To enable a ‘Private Area' go to ‘Manage Website' and then ‘Use Standard Pages'
• Select ‘Add private area '
• You can now choose a title and web address (URL), once you have chosen a name (or kept the default setting ‘Private Area') - click ‘OK'.

• A ‘Private Area' link should now appear on the left hand navigation menu, this link is only visible to you, other administrators of your site and members of your website.

Permissions

When you create this area people who are members of your website are automatically able to access the ‘Private Area'. You can change these settings to add users who can read your ‘Private Area'.  Members who need to edit or administrate this area (micro site) need to be made Administrators.

• To change who can access your Private Area go to ‘Manage Website' and then ‘Use standard pages'
• Scroll down to ‘Private Area' and click ‘Permissions' next to it

• You can then select who can read or edit and administrate the 'Private Area' by making or unmarking the check boxes. IMPORTANT make sure that your site administrator is checked as Administrator otherwise you won't be able to access the administrative side to edit your micro site - or the general site.

Managing your Private Area

The 'Private Area' is managed in exactly the same way as the main site, so creating pages and adding standard pages is done the same way.

Back to home page

Once you are in this ‘micro site'  there is no direct link back to the main part of your website. We recommend you add a hyperlink onto the homepage of this area to your main site in order to make it easier for people go back.

• Click ‘Private Area' and then ‘Edit this page'
• In the page editor type a message such as "Click here to return to the external website" then highlight the text and click on the hyper link button. A pop up box will appear and in the Link URL box type the full URL of the home page of your website) then click ‘Insert'. to insert your main website homepage url
• The text in the page editor should now appear blue and underlined. Scroll down and click ‘Save and Publish'

• There should now be a link back to your website. You may need to press ‘F5' or the ‘Refresh' icon in the browser toolbar to make your changes visible.