Site setup

This workflow leads you through step-by-step the basic set up of your new site.

Click the dashboard link in the admin toolbar:

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You can see your site’s setup status is 0%. Click Finish setting up the site

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Click the Continue button to start the set up workflow.

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Step 1: Front page welcome message

The first step is writing a welcome message that will appear on the front page of your site.

Images will appear separately on the front page, so don’t add them to the welcome message.

Enter a welcome message, and select continue.

Step 2: About your site

Enter text to create your sites About page.

Use the icons of the rich text editor to format your text or to add links or images

Step 3: Licence

Select a Creative Commons license to apply to the content of your site. The default license is “Attribution CC BY” but you can select a different license if you want.

See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ for an explanation of licenses.

Step 4: Category

Select the appropriate categories for your Scratchpad.

  • Scope
  • Ecoregion
  • Geographical extent
  • Research domain
  • Taxonomic area

This information is used by the team to analyse Scratchpads usage.

Step 5: Tools

Tools turn on and off different features of Scratchpads. For this training course, don’t change any of the tools, just save. We will activate and use some of the tools later in the course. The less tools activated the easier sites are to use for people with little Scratchpad knowledge.

Finish

Click on the Finish button to complete the set up.