Welcome
This is the workshop for your website. When the large blue "Preview" box is lit up at the top left of this page, your site appears as it would to someone viewing it on the Internet. (Except on the Internet no one would see the toolbar at the top of this page.) Click the "Preview" box whenever you want to have a clean look at your site.
Your site is not accessible by anyone except you right now and won't be published on the Internet until you activate your account AND click the large blue "Publish" button on the toolbar. (Even then there's a failsafe prompt that pops up and asks you to confirm.)
Click the "Help" button on the toolbar for a guided tour. We suggest you print that out. We'll be updating the Help section with detailed suggestions from time to time.
You can quickly make many changes to the basic look of this site by clicking the green "Theme," "Palette," and "Layout" buttons on the toolbar. Change it back any time you like. (This theme is "China;" the palette is blue. Each theme has its own set of palettes.)
We've put some dummy copy for "Selected Works" to the right. You can remove these, and insert your own selected works by clicking the "My Works" button in the blue navigation bar. Note that you can choose any categories you like for Selected Works -- we've chosen "Science Writings" and "Thrillers" -- it could be "Books," "Articles," "Graduation Speeches," "Excerpts," whatever.
"Quick Links," also to the right, is a place for you to link to friends, organizations, any place of interest to you and your readers. To allow your readers to contact you, we sugest that you insert your e-mail address in the "E-mail me" link.
To delete this text, enter Edit Mode (click the large blue "Edit" box on the toolbar) and then click "Delete" in the little blue box that will appear directly above this text.
Getting Started
WHERE'S THE REST OF MY SITE?
Constructing your entire website may seem overwhelming. We recommend cutting the job down to size and have limited your initial site to just three sections (Home, My Works and Biography). You may want to cut it even further, by hiding the Biography section for now.
To hide a section, make sure you're in the Edit Mode and then click the small blue "Edit menu" box that appears just above the menu bar (the menu bar is the bar that lists the various sections near the top of the page). Click to hide any section you'd like to save for later. If you'd like to use the Events, Discussion or Newsletter sections, simply click to display them.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
If you've removed the Biography section, you may want to use your biography (perhaps edited down a bit) as the content for your home page to start off.
No need to be comprehensive in listing works. Just list a couple to start. Add more as time permits.
With your home page done and one or two works listed, simply choose a theme and palette for your site you're done.
Publish your site to the Internet using the large blue Publish button on the toolbar. (You have to activate your account before the Publish button will work.)
This information also appears in the Help section of the toolbar.