Guernsey Chamber of Commerce. Website User Guide

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1 Guernsey Chamber of Commerce Website User Guide

2 Table of Contents Your New Chamber Website - Overview 3 Get Sign In Details 4 Sign In 5 Update Your Profile 6 Add News 7 Add Images to News/Events 8 Add Events 9 Leave a Comment 10 2

3 Your New Chamber Website This guide outlines the new features of the Guernsey Chamber website, to help Members make the most of its interactive features - like adding Member news and events. 3

4 Get Your Sign In Details Upon becoming a Chamber member, you will be ed a username and a strong secure default password to login to the Chamber website. If you wish to alter your password to something you will remember better, please try to include numbers and letters of higher and lower case. We also advise that you keep this password unique to the Chamber website. If you re not a member yet, you can apply to Chamber by pressing Sign Up on the top right of the page. 4

5 Sign In To login to the Chamber website, navigate to the Chamber website ( and press the Sign In button on the top right of the page. At the login screen, type in your provided username and password and click Sign In. You will now have access to the Admin Bar at the top of the page. This provides shortcuts to add your own news and events, and update your business or personal profile. Forgotten your password? Press Forgotten Password, enter the address registered with Chamber, and a link to reset your password will be ed to you. 5

6 Update Your Profile Your profile on the Chamber website allows other members to find out more about your business, contact information and links to any social media accounts. All Profiles appear in the Directory section of the Chamber website. To update your information, click the Update Your Profile button on the Admin Bar. On this page, you can update any contact information, change your password, upload/change your logo, and add any other information relating to your brand. Once completed, press the Update Profile button at the bottom of the page to save changes. Chamber will be notified when a profile has been updated. 6

7 Add Your News Chamber Members are granted access to their own member area where they can share their news and business updates with the community. To add news, press the Add Your News shortcut on the Admin Bar. This takes you to an editor where you can post your news piece. Be sure to include a title, and an image if possible. Details on how to submit images are featured on the next page. Once the news piece is completed, press Preview to see an example of how your piece will look on the Chamber website. If you re happy with this, press Submit for Review and our Chamber team will review and publish your news. 7

8 Add Images to News/Events To include an image when publishing Member News or Events, press the Set Featured Image button in the editor of your post. Press the Upload Files tab in the box which appears. Press Select Files and locate the image you d like to upload. This starts the upload process. Preferred image size: 750x400px to prevent cropping. The selected image will continue to upload, and will display a tickbox when ready. Once you see this, press the Set Featured Image button and it will be inserted into your post. 8

9 Add Your Events To add an event, press the Add Your Events shortcut on the Admin Bar. This takes you to an editor where you can list the title and the description of your event. Images can be added per the same instructions from page 8. Scroll down, and input other details like Venue, Price, Web Address and any other information. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and under Calendar Data click Add Event. Here you can list your event s date and time, and set it to repeat if necessary. This means it will also be added to the Chamber events calendar. Once the listing is complete, press Preview to see an example of how your event will look on the Chamber website. If you re happy with this, press Submit for Review and our Chamber team will review and publish your event. 9

10 Leave a Comment The new Chamber website includes a comment system to allow members to discuss Chamber s news stories. To login to the system, locate the comments box below the relevant article on the Chamber website. Press Login, and you can then choose to sign in using your Twitter, Google or Facebook account - for ease and speed of joining the system. If you prefer not to login via these methods, simply type your comment as normal, and you will be prompted for a name and address. Here, you can also include a password if you plan to comment again. 10