Creating New Pages

Just use the feature, it doesn't really need a help file!

Select a name that you want for new page(s). The name will be used to create a directory in your webspace, and will be displayed at the very top left of your page and also in the title bar in the visitors browser.

There is little restriction on the names you can choose, e.g. they may include capitals and or lower case, numbers, spaces, but not punctuation characters.

There are several types of page that you can select, e.g. pages that are automatically formatted for you, or pages where you can provide your own html code if you wish to achieve a certain effect.

We also provide options for you to include web-to-email forms in new pages.

If there are other features that you would like us to make available on new pages then please ask. (Hit counters? Picture links? Let us know)

If you wish to update your type of page after creating it, then just create a "new page" of exactly the same name. The features that you have selected will be included but your text will remain unaltered (note however that if you have changed the format of a page from paragraphs to plain or vice versa then you may need to edit your text to relect this).

After your page(s) have been created you may:

• Setup the text on the page, either by using the editor we provide or by uploading a text file.
  
  
• Link the page to your menubar. The link does not have to be the same as the page title though usually you will want to use something similar.
  
  

If your choice of new page includes a form for the patient to communicate with the practice, then creating a new page will in fact create three pages:

1. A "front page" for the section where you can explain the purpose and use of this page, with a link to the secure server at the foot of the page. You can edit the text of this section either using the editor utility or by uploading a text file named after the page title.
   
   
2. The page with the actual form. If you want to enter any text above the form then you may upload a file called form.txt to this directory. The data entered on this form is forwarded to the practice reception email address.
   
   
3. The result page tells the patient that their message has been forwarded to the practice, or if not then tells them the error in their form data so that they can correct it.
   
   

If you wish to add a password box to the form on the new page, so that only registered patients can use the form, use the password option on your email configuration page to set a password for the reception email address. To remove the password simply blank that box on the email configuration page.

If you wish you may replace the contact page with one of the new page designs. Just create a page called contact and it will overwrite the default page. Currently you cannot overwrite the appointment prescription or registration pages, but we can introduce this as an option if you would like it.

Encryption If your page includes a form, and you have enabled encryption of email to your reception email address, then the output of these forms will be encrypted before it is sent to your reception email.