Contact Page Management Help

The Contact page enables you to give patients your contact details all on one screen.

Using the Contacts Administration screen you can set the displayed text to your specific requirements.

Initially this page does not display any email addresses as you need to ensure that your practice email is reliable before inviting email correspondence. See for details on setting up the email system to work well with GPUK.net.

Edit the Text on the Contact Page

You can change the text of most of the contact page to suit your requirements. Be sure to view the finished result to make sure that it works as you intended. If you wish you can include html tags.

First Section These paragraphs appear below the practice address, before any email addresses.

Second Section If you have permitted display of any email addresses (configured on the Email admin page) then these will be displayed. But if you enter any text here this will replace the displayed email addresses (if any), or the default message in the case that there are no email addresses displayed.

Third Section You may end the page with several more paragraphs if you wish.

Any text that you enter will automatically be enclosed in justified paragraph tags, so there is no need for you to enter paragraph tags unless you want to enter more than one paragraph of text in a section.

HTML tags which you may find useful

If you wish you can include most html tags. Below are some examples of html tags you may find useful, though you can also use others. Most tags are used in pairs, an opening tag to indicate the start of some formatting, and a closing tag to indicate the return to standard formatting.

It is actually better to use the style sheet to set style and formatting, but that is more complicated and for minor matters such as highlighting in bold, using the tags below is quite acceptable.

• To make a word or words appear in <B>bold</B> use tags like this.
  
  
• To make a word or words appear in <I>italic</I> use tags like this.
  
  
• Try making text <big>big</big> or
  
  <big><big>bigger</big></big>
  
  or perhaps you prefer <small>small</small> or
  
  <small><small>smaller</small></small>
  
  
• To make words appear in colour use tags like this:
  
  <FONT COLOR="RED">colour</FONT>
  
  
• To include a hyperlink enter a filename and a description like this
  
  <A HREF="filename">Link Description</A>
  
  "filename" could be
  
  
  • just the name e.g. opentimes.html if that file is in the same directory as your page, or
    
    
  • include the directory "docs/filename.html" if it is in your docs subdirectory, or
    
    
  • the full address if it is a link to somewhere else "http://www.myserver.co.uk/subdirectory/filename.html"
    
    
• To include a picture upload the file to your images directory and include a link like this
  
  <IMG SRC="images/filename" alt "description of picture" height = "73" width = "124">
  
  give the full address if the picture file is somewhere else e.g. instead of "images/filename" put "http://www.myserver.co.uk/subdirectory/imagefile.jpg"
  
  

Uploading preprepared text

In common with other pages on GPUK.net websites, you may prepare your text in advance and upload the files. If you wish to do this then follow these few rules for success.

1. The file for Section 1 is called contact.txt and should be uploaded to your contacts directory.
   
   
2. The file for Section 2 is called email.txt and should be uploaded to your contacts directory.
   
   
3. The file for Section 3 is called footer.txt and should be uploaded to your contacts directory.
   
   
4. Files must be in plain text format (e.g. use notepad in Windows, don't use Word).
   
   
5. Do not wordwrap the text i.e. just keep typing even after reaching the end of a line, unless you want to start a new paragraph.
   
   
6. To start a new paragraph press Enter or Return to start a new line.
   
   
7. Blank lines will be ignored.
   
   
8. You can completely take over the default page that we provide if you upload a file called index.html or index.htm to your contacts directory, but this must be a properly constructed html page. (If you subsequently wish to revert to our page then simply delete your uploaded file and our page will again be displayed automatically).