This page gives an outline of the training suggested for those who will be supporting content. The two training sessions are probably best separated by a couple of weeks.
Prior activity
- Become familiar with your current website
- Decide on responsibilities (who will maintain content, who will manage email settings and the domain, who will manage online space, who will deputise)
- Decide where to store website source files (local server or individual PC?) and set up the parent directory, with a suitable name
- Read the introduction and, if there is time, dip into other documentation
Training Session 1
- Review prior activity
- Automatic formatting of content pages (introduction)
- Filename standards
- How it all fits together (introduction)
- Menus (introduction)
- How to use the online documentation
- Managing email mailboxes and redirection (1&1 Control Panel)
- Domain management (1&1 Control Panel)
- Questions
Practice between sessions
- Refer to online documentation
- Amend a page
- Create a new page
- Add corresponding menu entry
- Use the Control Panel
- Use Webmail
Training Session 2
- Review practice activity
- Automatic formatting of content pages (in depth)
- How it all fits together (review)
- Menus and configuration files (in depth)
- Safe testing
- Managing online webspace - ftp (file transfer) application
- Handover of content management responsibility; Software update policy
- Website statistics (log files)
- Questions and how to get help
I'm interested in learning more. What should I do?
Choose from among the following:
- Practice and extend skills already learned
- Study this documentation in more depth and experiment with what you learn
- Install Libre Office
- Learn basic HTML (for example complex page layout may need html)
- Learn about CSS (cascading style sheets)
- For the really adventurous, learn PERL
