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SOCS Sport Website Editor

If you have the SOCS Sport Website Editor then you are able to make changes to the standard SOCS Sport website by doing the following:

  • Add your school’s primary colours
  • Update the logo/crest
  • Adjust the menu position
  • Remove menu items
  • Add Twitter
  • Add or update the slideshow of photographs

 

Adding Primary Colours: 

To add or edit the primary colours on your sport website:

  1. Login to SOCS administrator
  2. Select Sport Website Editor within the Website Branding section
  3. Enter the Hex codes for the two colours you wish to include – see screenshot below:
  4. Press Save.

Notes:

Colours should be entered using their 6-digit Hex number including the hash (#) at the beginning. E.g. #123456. We recommend you get your hex colour codes from your school website branding. To save the colours successfully, two valid colours must be entered.

The two colours you enter are used on your SOCS websites as containers for white text in links and headings, as well as for text on white backgrounds. We therefore recommend that you do not choose white, or any colours that are too pale.

To revert back to the standard SOCS colour scheme leave the colour fields below blank and click save.

 

Adjust the Menu Position

To adjust the menu position on your sport website:

  1. Login to SOCS administrator
  2. Select Sport Website Editor within the Website Branding section
  3. Select Left or Right using the Menu Position drop down
  4. Press Save.

Example of the menu on the left:

Example of the menu on the right:

 

Add Twitter

SOCS Sport only

To include a Twitter "tab" on the homepage of your sports website, follow these steps:

  1. Login to SOCS Administrator
  2. Select Sport Website Editor within the Website Branding section
  3. Enter the Twitter Name
  4. Press Save.

The Twitter tab will appear in the top left content box on the homepage of your sport website – see screenshot below:

 

Remove Menu Items

To hide/remove the menu items from your sports website, follow these steps:

  1. Login to SOCS Administrator
  2. Select Sport Website Editor within the Website Branding section
  3. In the Sports Website Menu Items section, untick the menu items you want to hide – see screenshot below.
  4. Press Save.

 

Note:

Removing the menu item does not remove the associated section from the website. Visitors with links saved to favourites will still be able to access them. SOCS users will still be able to see these menu items when logged in to the SOCS cms.

 

Update the Logo/Crest

Please see the help article here for information on updating the school crest. 

 

Add or Update the Slideshow of Photographs

You can add up to 10 photos for a banner slideshow which appears at the top of your website. Photos appear in a random order that will change each time a page on the website is loaded.  To add or edit the photos on your sport or calendar website, follow these steps:

To update the slideshow of photographs, follow these steps:

  1. Login to SOCS Administrator
  2. Select Sport Website Photos
  3. Select + Add a new slideshow photo
  4. Select + Add more files
  5. Find the photo you want to upload and select Open
  6. Select Upload
  7. Press Save.

Notes:

If you want to edit the photo, then hover over the image to display the editing tools – see screenshot below.

This allows you to crop or rotate the photo.  Please see the images below that were cropped to display the best area of the photo on the website:

Photo as it was uploaded:

Photo once it was cropped:

You can remove a photo from the slideshow by selecting “Delete photo” on Sport Website Slideshow Photos screen.