Next lets update our homepage. From the menu on the left, select content. This will bring up your site explorer. It looks pretty bare at the moment but don't worry, it won't be for too much longer. Click on the blue 'Home Page' link at the top of the explorer. Now you will be presented with the edit homepage screen. Using the editor tools described here, create the content for your home page. If you wish, you may upload images first and import them from the editor. Its completely up to you. 

For now you shouldn't worry too much about the content on your homepage, we can come back and change it any time we like. Once we click on the 'Update Content' button, we will be returned to the site explorer where we can have a look at our changes by clicking on the magnifying glass under options for home page.

So lets start off by creating a new base site. From the 'Content' menu, select 'Add New'. Choose 'Base' from this list. This will open the add new base screen. Enter 'Church' as the Base Name. You can leave the ticker text blank for now. Using the tools described here, fill out the editor with your content. Click here to see what I've done. When we click on the 'Add Base Node' button, we will be presented with the add new ... screen. This time select Content from the list and now we have the add new content list screen. Enter 'Church Notes' for the Content Name and click on 'Add Content List'. This will bring us back to the site explorer screen which should now look like this. Slowly but surely its beginning to look like the list above.

OK so now we have 'Mass Times' & 'Contact' to add to the Church section. In the site explorer screen click on Church. This will open up the edit base screen. Click on the 'Add New' button in the top right. This will once again open up the add new ... screen. Select Content again and this time name the list 'Mass Times'. Add the new content list and do the same as above for the contact page. Our site explorer should now look like this. 

Do the same for the remaining content lists (History, Village Notes, Tidy Towns, Gallery & Accomadation).

Adding up the messageboard is very similar, except select messageboard from the 'add new ... screen' and give the messageboard the name 'Messageboard'. Ditto for the Poll. Now our explorer should look like this. 

You'll probaly notice that the structure of the configuration as it stands is slightly out of sync with the list above. (Messagebpard & Poll are out of position). Use the arrows to the right of the messageboard & poll to move these items up to their correct position. See here for information on how to move menu items around. Your explorer should now look like this.

For information on how to add a poll to a poll list, see here.

Images are uploaded through the upload screen. You can get here by selecting 'Uploads' from the 'Content' menu. Once uploaded we can then use images in our editor to create rich content. You may upload as many images as you like but be wary of the size of them as large files will take longer to display and the public page will load slower. We can view the image properties or delete unwanted images from the image manager screen. 

The rest of the content lists in our configuration will be built using the exact same techniques as above. So by the end of this step, we should have a populated (but not necessarily finished) site explorer. 

The other style options are completely up to yourself. Check out the style centre help section for information on the different parameters here. If you use style images then much of the Colours Fonts & Styles section will not apply. For the sake of the tutorial we will examine a few different options here.

First of all lets say we're not going to use style images. Uncheck all 3 images boxes under 'Images'. Under Colours Fonts & Styles select whatever details you want. I've selected Verdana as my Font, a blue colour (#0000CC) for the primary colour, a navy colour (#000066) for the secondary colour, a light blue colour (#6666FF) for the highlighted colour and a yellow colour (#FFFF00) for the text. I've also enabled the blending & highlighting options. For the time being, I'm going to leave all 3 options under Misc (breadcrumbs, Smart-Menu & Hitcount) checked. After clicking on the Update Style button we can now see that our homepage looks like this.

Ok so now lets switch on the style images. First of all we need to create and upload 3 suitable images. In an image editing program (such as photoshop), create 3 images. A header image (should be 760 pixels wide and between 100 & 200 pixels high), a side image (for the background for Smart-Menu, should be no more than 114 pixels wide - doesn't matter how high).and a background image (doesn't matter how big it is but the smaller it its the more quickly the public pages will load. Below is the 3 images that I have created for my portal.

• Header Image
• Side Image
• Background Image

Save your 3 images to somewhere on your pc and upload them from the style centre. Finally tick the check boxes for the style images. and save the style settings. Magically your home page will now look like this.

We can delegate the church section to somebody in the church and the GAA section to a member of the GAA club. The user will have access to add up new content items and edit existing items. They can screen and approve suppressed messages for the messageboard & guestbooks that they have access to. Basicly the admin user can set up these users and assign their permissions and then (in theory) doesn't need to worry about the assigned section. Of course the admin user has permission to update that section too but the idea is for the new user to assume responsibility for the section.

For the sake of the tutorial lets say that we have identified a user to look after the GAA section of the site called Philip O'Brien. We want to add up 'Philip' and give hom access to the GAA->Club news section. From the Add New User screen we enter in philips details and assign him a password to login with. In the permisssions box select  and highlight 'GAA-Club News' and add the new user. Now when we view Philip's details in the user details screen we can see that he has permission to the GAA scction. See here for a screenshot.

If Philip was to log on with the password that the admin set up for him and go to the site explorer, he would see something like this. As you can see this is a restricted subset of the admin explorer (See here).

Philip now has control over the 'GAA' base page and the 'Club News' Content List. He can add & delete stories from the list and update existing stories. If the admin was to add a messageboard to the GAA base site, then Philip could also manage suppressed messages.

can set up as many users as you like, and they are a good way of delegating tasks in the site so that the admin doesn't need to do everything. Clear-Site is designed to limit the damage that a user could do by accident and for this reason a user may not add new pages or delete existing configurations. Only the admin can do this

The most difficult part of setting up a site most often can be deciding on the structure of the site (i.e. coming up with the list from the top of this page). Once we have this defined, its quite easy to build in Clear-Site. By following the steps in this tutorial, you should be able to apply the same practices to your own site to achieve success for your website.

Click here to view the final site.