Creating and Customizing Site Bulletins
Site Bulletins provide a quick and easy way to provide information to web-site visitors. NeatClubs allows the site administrator to configure site bulletins by selecting the menu option "System Setup" / “Site Bulletins”.
The setup screen for the site bulletins will look similar to the one below. If Site Bulletins are active, and if you are logged in with an administrator account, a convenient “Bulletins” link will appear in the side panel area on the top left. You can access the bulletin setup screen directly from this convenience link in addition to using the System Setup menu.
Three check boxes govern the behavior of the site bulletins.
| ▪ | Enable Message Display: If this box is “unchecked” the site bulletins will be inactive for website visitors |
| ▪ | Show Message as scrolling text in side panel: The messages may appear either in a formatted box above the main content area of the site (center panel) or in a scrolling region on the top of the left side panel of the web-site. If checked, the message will appear in the side panel. |
| ▪ | Add a System Generated Message to the scrolling region: This option avoids a problem that can occur when sites decide they have only one message, but still want the message to scroll. A single messaging looks awkward when it scrolls, so if this box is checked, an additional message will be generated by the system that includes the name of the organization hosting the the site and the organization phone number as defined under the Preferences. |
Customizing the Site Bulletins Further
Three spaces are provided where customizable site bulletins can be entered. Announcements must be entered in order. Do not leave announcement space #1 blank and fill in announcement spaces #2 and #3 or problems may occur with the scrolling region.
If scrolling is disabled, only the first announcement will be active and the other two text fields will be ignored.
Advanced users may enter HTML directly into these fields to change things like text color, highlight words, or add hyperlinks. Any HTML inserted in these fields must be valid within the <body> and </body> tags, so HTML should be constructed accordingly.
Advanced users with knowledge of scripting languages such as JavaScript may embed their own short functions in the HTML as well. NeatClubs will make sure that the JavaScript is appropriately handled in the resulting page display.