Web Admin

This page is for the webmaster ... it is not shown on the navigation bar.

This page has some helpful tips on editing and a parking lot for some other information that could be included on other pages.

It is a work in progress ...

Website Editing

Website Owner and Editor:

willowcreekhighlands@gmail.com

Website Editing:

1. log in as the owner and editor. A password is required. Two-factor authentication may also be required.

2. Go to the website: https://drive.google.com/

3. Navigate to a page of interest, and edit the page. A panel on the right allows various boxes, images, or documents to be inserted/referenced in the page. A set of text edit options are displayed above a text box.

4. When done editing, one can preview the changes by selecting the "preview" icon at top.

5. The website can be published using the "Publish" button at top.

Adding a Drive Directory contents listing to web page:

1. Get a Link to the Google Drive directory whose contents you wish to display

   • Go to Google Drive and Navigate to the directory whose contents is to be listed on the webpage

   • Highlight the directory, and right click to display drop down menu and click on "Get Link"

   • Copy the link (this copies the URL to your clipboard)

2. Embed this link into the webpage

   • Go to the webpage where you want to display the Drive's directory listing

   • In the right panel, click on Insert --> <>Embed

   • In the pop-up box, paste the URL from step 1 above

   • The contents of the Drive's directory should now be displayed. Only files and sub-directories with appropriate permissions will be displayed.

Note: Once the link is added, there seems no obvious way to display the directory name whose content is displayed. There seems no way to edit or display this link. Perhaps Google fixes this oversight in the future.

Editing Google Drive Documents and Directories:

Each Drive Document and Directory is granted edit permissions in terms of a Google Group. If you are a member of the appropriate Group that has edit permissions, then you are allowed to edit a document or create a new document in a directory.

1. Log in with your email credentials (preferably a gmail address)

2. Go to Google Drive and the desired sub-directory

3. Edit a document, or create a new document (Allowed only if you are a member of a Group that has edit permissions)

4. Changes should be immediately visible on the webpage that either references the edited document or displays the content of a directory

Tips and hints:

• Read the Website Design Philosophy when adding or referencing web pages. Keep things as simple as possible.

• Avoid adding many new pages. Is the info useful? To which roles? What is the effort to maintain?

• Try to use the different paragraph types (Title, Heading, Subheading, Normal Text, Small text) to maintain consistency across pages.

• Use Bold, Italics, Underlining, and font colors to enhance readability. But use sparingly.

• Avoid changing to a new "theme". It may require a lot of cleanup editing to make things presentable.

• Respect using the limited page design elements and layouts ... these are limited to allow for more readable display on mobile devices. Simple is better.

Google Groups

A group of members based on their email addresses.. https://support.google.com/a/users#topic=9917952

Goal:

Permissions are set up on some directories &/or files using the Group. So, then only need to update group membership and not go through and change permissions on every directory/file. A simple admin process that can only be done by the Group owner.

Groups for this Website:

Groups owned by willowcreehighlands@gmail.com (go to: https://groups.google.com/my-groups ) to manage groups.

wchhoa bod wchhoa-bod@googlegroups.com

wchhoa acc wchhoa-acc@googlegroups.com

wchhoa test group wchhoa-tes-group@googlegroups.com

Google Sites training:

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282722?hl=en&ref_topic=9348381#zippy=%2Clevel-beginner-tips

Google Analytics (needs updated with new website)

Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?et=&authuser=#management/Account/a37647704w66070006p67927904/

Must be logged in as willowcreekhighlands, and will display some analytics about the visitors to this site -- number of visitors, etc. Clicking on the link above displays the sites owned and tracked by willowcreekhighlands. Click on the site of interest. Then click on "Reporting" item near the top.

Searching for this website: (consider including on another page?)

As we are using a free google hosting website and do not enable advertising, google searches may not display this website. So ... we add the following text here to make it more likely this website will be found via a web search.

• willow creek highlands home owners association silverthorne colorado

• willowcreek highlands home owners association silverthorne co

• willow creek highlands HOA silverthorne colorado

• willowcreek highlands HOA silverthorne co

• willowcreek highlands silverthorne colorado

• willow creek highlands silverthorne co

• willow creek HOA silverthorne colorado

• willowcreek HOA silverthorne co

WCHHOA on Social Media: (likely deprecate this ... not really used)

An HOA presence on Facebook was set up in the hopes it would be a useful way to communicate with the property owners, but very few owners used FB. So while the HOA still maintains a presence on FB, they are not used much anymore. These links are here for future reference in the event their use is resurrected.

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