Internal Only
Guidance for use
Site Walkthrough
Support Pages
Each Support page of the directory is set up in the same way.
Section header reflective of the home page button for the section
Summary block which pulls through from Master Information
The Summary block is set to the relevant category for the page e.g. Debts & Money pulls through any articles posted on the Master Information page set to the category Debts & Money.
Each Summary block can contain 30 articles and set in the design to be 1:1 square. We need to set a standard for each summary block to be consistent but if you find it difficult to create/find images for articles which are 1:1 square we can change the sizing but it is better to be consistent especially as the site is designed for mobile usage.
Once you have decided how you are going to handle data we can add a call to action at the bottom of each page.
Categories
Categories correspond to the Support pages:
Debt and Money - pulls through to the Debt & Money page
Benefits and Money - pulls through the Benefits and Money page
Community Support - pulls through to the Community Support page
Energy and Bills - pulls through to the Energy and Bills page
Children and Families - pulls through to the Children and Families page
Older and Disabled People - pulls through the Older and Disabled people page
Emergency Help - pulls through to the emergency help page
Young People - pulls through to the young people page
Food Support - pull through to the food support page
Health and Wellbeing - pulls through to the health and wellbeing page
Squarespace unfortunately doesn’t give you a list of these anywhere, it is a real pain that way so you need to start typing the category that you want and know them beforehand when categorising a blog posting. So keep a list of them handy somewhere!
Add Blog Posts
The site works through the Master Information section which is a series of blog posts which are either categorised or tagged according to where you want them to appear on the site.
To add a Blog Post.
Go to Pages
Scroll down to Master Information
Click on the plus sign
This will then enter a page that you can add to the information to and you can add text, images, videos, lists and links and buttons as however you want to build up the information for that page
You then save the page
Go back into it by clicking on the three dots next to the corresponding article and go to settings
Add an image - an image is essential as this is your click through. Either use stock images or graphics from Canva, advised is to compress and not use big images as we want a fast load on the site.
Go to options, this is where you then select the category or tag to pull through onto the summary blocks on the pages. Where the magic happens!
Tags
Tags correspond to the area pages, it is important that the tags and categories throughout are consistent. Even more so with tags as it will just create new ones if say you use a typo in the tag and then not pull through to the corresponding page. E.g. Caithness as a tag will pull through to the Caithness page, but if you typoed and put in Ciathness then it will accept that as a tag but it won’t then pull through to the summary block.
The tags are currently set on the summary blocks as:
Caithness
Sutherland
Easter Ross
Wester Ross
Inverness
Inverness-shire
Badenoch and Strathspey
Nairnshire
Lochaber
Skye
You can both tag and categorise a post, e.g. Community Support Funding that is only available in Caithness you may want to add a post on which both puts it in the category of Community Support and on the Caithness page. Similarly you might want to categorise Benefits Support to actually appear on both Benefits and Money and Debt and Money.
Managing Events & Training Page
The Training page works in much the same way as the other pages in that it pulls through information from a hidden master.
There is still some building and narrative to be added to the Training page as I don’t know how you are going to manage the bookings and promotions but once I have that information I can add more on.
It pulls through the information in the Training Events Calendar, scroll to the unlinked pages to find it and video shows how to add an event on. Can go through this in more depth once you know how you are going to manage the bookings.