Additional Information About Built-in Pages

Information specific to each built-in page is provided below. 

Home Page

The appearance and layout of the home page on your site will depend on the template you have selected for your site.

The Site Greeting section of your home page generally has special formatting and should only be used for a short greeting (like "Welcome," etc.).

If you wish to update your news items, please visit How to display news items.

To add a special "add me to your mailing list" form to your home page, please see How to collect email addresses. 

Teachers/Instructors Page

This page displays the images and biographical information if you have entered this information Setup > General > Instructors. 

Your website will use the term "teacher" or "instructor" depending on which Main Street Site website type you are using.

Please see How to enter teachers if you need to add, edit or update your teacher information. 

Classes Page

This page shows your class schedule on your website. Please see Manage > Classes > Classes to learn how to enter classes, set class status values, etc.

When you have more than one semester active for the Classes page, the semesters will display as a series of tabs that visitors to your site can select. If you have only one active semester, the semester tabs will not appear.

The Settings tab has several options for how the page should display. From this tab you can hide the classes grid entirely (if you don't wish to use it), and you can change the layout used by the classes grid (among other things). Please see How to use named layouts for classes to learn more about how customize your classes page. 

Registration Page

This page is used to allow your customers to register for classes on your website. It will display a form for them to fill out and allow them to select their first and second choices.

Please see Manage > Classes > Classes to learn how to enter classes, set class status values, etc.

Please see Setup > Settings > Online Order Settings to learn how to set options for your online registration process.

When you have more than one semester active for this page, the semesters will display as a series of tabs from which visitors to your site can select. If you have only one active semester, the semester tabs will not appear.

The Settings tab has several options for how the page should display. From this tab you can hide the registration form entirely (if you don't wish to use it), and you can change the layout used by the class grid (among other things). Please see How to use named layouts for registration to learn more about how customize your registration page.

The Custom Fields tab can be used to add additional fields to your registration form. Click on the "Add" button to add a new field to your registration form. You can click on the "Required" checkbox to make the field required if you wish to.

Photo Gallery Page

This page makes it easy for you to upload photos from your business and display them on your website on a single page.

Go to the Photos tab to upload images to this page. Click on "Add photo" to upload a new image.

If you wish to upload photos for use anywhere on your site, please use the Page Vault instead (see Website > Vaults > Page Vault).

Testimonials Page

This page allows you to show a list of comments from your customers.

To add a customer comment to this page, click on the Quotes tab and click on the "Add" button. Fill out the form and click on Save to save your changes. 

Calendar Page

This page allows you to include a calendar on your site. If your website menu does not include a link for a calendar page, you may need to enable it. You can do this by going to Website > General > Site Options > Settings tab. Scroll down until you see "Enable calendar page" and select its checkbox. 

The calendar items on this site can be updated by clicking on the "Entries" tab. See How to create manual calendar entries for more information on this.

You can also populate your calendar from your class schedule. See How to show class meetings in your calendar for more information on this.

Make-up Scheduler Page

This page is the "landing page" for the make-up scheduler. You may wish to use this page to describe your make-up policies. The user will be asked to login and/or provide the make-up scheduler access code if you have defined one. He or she can then continue on to schedule or cancel a make-up.

Please see Setup > Settings > Make-up Settings for more information on make-up scheduler settings.

If you would like to add the make-up scheduler for your website, please see How to add makeup scheduler to your website.

Demo Scheduler Page

This page is the "landing page" for the demo scheduler. You may wish to use this page to describe your demo class policies. The user will be asked to provide the demo scheduler access code if you have defined one. He or she can then continue on to schedule or cancel a demo.

Please see Setup > Settings > Demo Settings for more information on demo scheduler settings.

If you would like to add the demo scheduler for your website, please see How to add demo scheduler to your website.

Tell a Friend Page

This page allows visitors to your site to send an email to their friends with a link to your website. 

Contact Us Page

This page allows visitors to your site to sent you a message via email. The customer messages are sent to you via email. You can also view them online by going to Communications > Logs > Email Log.

Login Page

This page appears whenever a user on your site attempts to access a protected feature. Examples of these features would be the Portal, Forums, Directory, etc.