Assigning a Home Page

(relevant to Administrators)

This section shows how you can direct people to your home page or pages on Webstore, as well as using the browse view to show all the dynamic content that is also on your site. It also shows how you assign a home page for your organisation and how you update it.

Directing people to your home page(s)

Any organisation can hyperlink or redirect an existing URL directly to its home page. It is also possible to put a hyperlink from the home page to the browse view for users who have gone directly to the home page. See Hyperlinking to Page Groups.

Webstore's unique browse view of folders for both web pages and other files complements an organisation's home page or pages.

To understand the advantages that this gives over traditional websites see Introduction.

How to assign a home page(s)

When you first logon as an administrator to Webstore, you have just an organisation icon showing like this:

To set up a home page:

1. First you need to create a web page or a series of linked web pages using any application that outputs html pages. The web page or pages are best created without any sub folders. One sub folder is allowed if required.
   (For more information see the table on Add Page Group options menu that shows examples of web pages created by different applications. Also the Best Practice in York link from the help index shows lots of home pages from York Schools.)
2. You then need to upload your web page(s). See Add Page Group options menu.
3. You then need to publish your web page(s). Click on your web page group and choose 'Publish page'. The page should be refreshed and the circle will change from red to green.
4. If you now click on your web page group, you will see the following menu:

   

   Click on the fifth option to 'Assign as Home Page'.
5. Your home page icon should now read:

   

   with the addition of 'home page' after it. If you now click on it and choose 'View Home Page' your web page(s) will load as your new home page.

How to update your home page(s)

1. You need to create a new version of you web page(s) using the original application. These changes will probably be simple edits to your originals. It is recommended to keep a second copy at all times as a back up. Also programs such as Microsoft Publisher do not re-edit web pages, so make sure you keep a copy in the language of the original e.g. keep a publisher document of the home pages that you can then publish each time you want to update the pages.
2. Delete the previous copy from Webstore. Click on your home page icon, and choose 'Delete Home Page'. (Alternatively, you can upload your new home page under a different name, homepage 2 perhaps. If you then publish it and assign it as a home page it will push the other home page back into the folder it was in before. You can then delete it. This way you are never without a current home page.)
3. Repeat stage 2,3,4 of 'How to assign a home page(s)'.

This is a high maintenance activity, and therefore it is suggested to keep your home page to maybe half a dozen pages that do not change too often. Use the unique Webstore folders in the Browse view for staff and pupils to publish content to showcase the school.

See also:

• Next help page: Assigning an Index page
• Glossary