Getting started
If you are new to SurreyCommunity.info this section will get you started.
Find out how to:Site owner's support area
This area contains help, information and news for anyone running a website on SurreyCommunity.info
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Special feature
Each month, we look at a different aspect of SurreyCommunity.info...
Adding an discussion forum to your site
A discussion forum is a great way to interact with your members and visitors to your site. It allows people to post and reply to messages on your site. You could use this to find out visitors' opinions or to allow your members to share ideas and information.
- Things you need to consider before you add a discussion forum
- How to set up, run and use a discussion forum
Developing your site further
For information about each of the options on the site admin page, take a look at the site owner's manual which also gives details about the built-in applications.
If you've got to grips with the basics, these topics will help you extend your site:
Working with pages
- Making text flow around your pictures
- Adding margins and borders to pictures
- Adding keywords and descriptions for search engines
- Copying and pasting text from Word or web pages
- Restoring deleted pages
- Editing the HTML of your page
Using the built-in applications
Managing your site
- Changing the order of your navigation menu
- Site statistics: how busy is your site?
- Managing your website members
- Adding extra administrators
- Changing your group's details in the A-Z
- Finding and repairing broken links
- Adding a "page not found" (404 error) page
- Changing your site's address
- Using your own domain name
Solve a problem
We hope that you'll find it easy to build and run your site using SurreyCommunity.info.
However, if you do have problems, contact us at enquiries@surreycommunity.info. We'll try and solve the problem for you and if we think the answer will help others, we'll add it to this section.
Here are the answers to some common issues:
- How do I change the information showing on my home page? I can't see it when I try to edit the page.
- How do I change the description of my group in the SurreyCommunity A-Z?
- I can't edit my listing in the A-Z because it automatically redirects me to my site elsewhere
- You've sent me an email asking me to approve a new member - what am I supposed to do?
- Why does the system keep asking me to log in?
- How can I use pictures wider than 430 pixels?
- Known issues - details of problems that we are aware of
- Other sources of help
