When you create a new page by right-clicking on the article in the menu you will create it under, you can select one template to use in a list of several templates. The most common page types are:
Categorising pages is a very powerful and easy way to set up related content in your website saving hours of editing if ti is done carefully.
This is an intro text. What is most important in the article should come first and be placed here. The intro text can also contain a short summary of the content.
Once you have set your theme you will need to tweak the global navigation settings to suit your site.
To create a custom form that sends a newsletter sign up to an external system is also possible. The below example demonstrates how this can be done to Vertical Response, a company who offers not-for-profits 10,000 emails per month for free.
To create a custom form that sends a newsletter sign up for your own newsletter into the Partners Database is both easy and a good strategic decision, as it means that new contacts are added inmmediately to the global system. It also means that you have immediate access to them via your reporting interface in the Partners Database.
EpiServer is set up with some forms that communicate directly with the Partners Database and with a service that queries information back from the database. This data is used to inform us of activity in the network, provide help and asssistance (see collecting data using forms) and to show on the website our reach using maps.
Creating a site, be it a microsite, regional or rethinking gwp.org should be approached methodically. This section provides some best practices and some very basic tools to help you through this proccess.