FAQ
Creating a Community or Neighborhood Website
If you want to create a Community or Neighborhood Assocation website, you should read these sections of the FAQ:
then subscribe to the Community Webmaster’s group, and read the Home Page Prototyping Area page under that group.
Creating a Chapter or Section
Books are a way to relate pages with one another in a hierarchically cascading chapter/section arrangement. Strictly speaking, our CMS doesn’t support chapters or sections. There are only book pages, and links to ancestor pages. But we can easily create data structures which resemble chapters or sections, so it is very useful for us to use these metaphors.
In a book, each page may have children (i.e. “child pages.”) Each child may itself have children. So to create a chapter or section, merely make a page (the chapter), then attach child-pages to it (pages in the chapter).
Creating a Book
Creating a book starts by creating a “Book page,” then adding additional pages to it. In order to create book pages, you generally need to ask for “book” privileges. Only then will you see some of the book creation options, such as the “Outline” tab, or “Book page” type. With proper permissions, different people may work collaboratively on a book.
The best practice is to use the “Book page” type when creating new pages in a book. The easiest way to do this is to use the “add child page” link. You’ll find one at the bottom of every book page. Clicking on it creates a new “Book page,” with the current page automatically selected as its parent.
Books
Our CMS system (Drupal) supports a type of content known as “books.” Books are really just a way to relate pages with one another in a hierarchically cascading chapter/section arrangement. This structure is extremely useful for creating a series of related pages on a given topic. It is an excellent way to organize a committee or neighborhood association website.
Meeting minutes
To create minutes for meetings, choose the “Minutes” content type under the “New web page” menu. Then complete the appropriate fields. Most fields are optional (except for those marked with an asterisk: *). You should complete optional fields if you have relevant content for them, otherwise leave them blank.
Recurring/repeating events
Note: We have made some changes to our system, and this information may be out-of-date. Please report any errors you might find by adding a comment below.
Books - An Overview
Books are a way to relate pages with one another in a hierarchically cascading chapter/section arrangement. This structure is extremely useful for creating a series of related pages on a given topic.
