GREAT NEWS!!
Anthony Straker and Rod Neucom have prepared a step by step illustrated guide to building your free club website using the freetoasthost sites offered by Toastmasters International.
The course is divided into five parts plus a glossary of terms:
PART 1 DOWNLOAD – Introduction
PART 2 DOWNLOAD – Overview of FTH Websites
PART 3 DOWNLOAD – Making your website work for you
PART 4 DOWNLOAD – Setting up Your website
Great guide, wish someone has done this prior to my learning the hard way!
Couple of items I have used which you may want to look at:
1. Use of Google drive for making sub- pages.
I wanted to add pages for our newsletters on a yearly basis but didn’t want these all to be on the “main menu”. I was able to store a .html file on google drive that looked like our web page and then had the “newsletter” item in the main menu have links to all these
http://westernlectern.toastmastersclubs.org/Newsletter.html
https://googledrive.com/host/0Bxyrmuav7R0fOHEwbllkZXZURDA/Newsletters%202012.htm
2. I wanted the first page to have a slide show of pics (as a static pic can get boring). So I used an animate gif.
I used a freeware app called UnFreez to select the pics I wanted, added a delay between pics and UnFREEz generates the .gif.
http://westernlectern.toastmastersclubs.org/
Thanks again for the great FTH Manual.
Regards
Brad Fossey
President Western Lectern
D70, Area 52, Club 5069.
Great guide, wish someone has done this prior to my learning the hard way!
Couple of items I have used which you may want to look at:
1. Use of Google drive for making sub- pages.
I wanted to add pages for our newsletters on a yearly basis but didn’t want these all to be on the “main menu”. I was able to store a .html file on google drive that looked like our web page and then had the “newsletter” item in the main menu have links to all these
http://westernlectern.toastmastersclubs.org/Newsletter.html
https://googledrive.com/host/0Bxyrmuav7R0fOHEwbllkZXZURDA/Newsletters%202012.htm
2. I wanted the first page to have a slide show of pics (as a static pic can get boring). So I used an animate gif.
I used a freeware app called UnFreez to select the pics I wanted, added a delay between pics and UnFREEz generates the .gif.
http://westernlectern.toastmastersclubs.org/
Thanks again for the great FTH Manual.
Regards
Brad Fossey
President Western Lectern
D70, Area 52, Club 5069.