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2 Contents Logging in your website Getting to know your Home Page Personalise your website Setting up your website Adding content to your website Editing & Content Symbols Adding Sections Editing the Centre Circle Reorganising Content Reorganising Circle Sections Reorganising Page Slides Sharing Your Website Working with Pictures, Words, Files & Links Working with Audio Working with Video Clips Before you start Adding Video

3 Logging in your website You can log into your Klik in website in two ways. You can visit the Klik in portal home page at and click the Login to your Website button. Or you can visit the Klik in user login page directly at Both steps will take you to the Klik in user login page. First, write your username in the Username box. If you want to use your picture password click on the three pictures that make your picture password. Remember to click the pictures in the right order. Or if you want to use your text password, write your text password in the password box. Finally click the Login button 2

4 Getting to know your Home Page This is your website s Home page. It is the first page that you will see when you log in. Your website has six circle sections and an extra section in the middle called About This Website. The pencil icon lets you change the colour, title and sub-title of your website (see page. 4) Make text bigger or smaller, upper case or lower case Use the pencil & eye icons to show or hide editing symbols Click here to logout This text tells you if your website is public or private You can invite friends to see your website by clicking invite (see page.13) The page counter shows how many times your website has been visited In Setup you can add your YouTube or Vimeo account details and make your website public or private (see page.5) 3

5 Personalise your website Before you start to add content to your website you can personalise your website by choosing a title, sub-title and colour. The colour you choose will show at the top of your website. To personalise your website click on the pencil icon here Write the title of your website here Write the sub-title of your website here Click a colour that you like Now click the Finish button. 4

6 Setting up your website Now that you have personalised your website you should add some information to set up your website. To set up your website click on the Setup button Write just one or two key words that describe what your website is about here If you have a YouTube account, write your YouTube username here If you have a Vimeo account, write your Vimeo username here If you want to make your website public to everyone click Yes. If you want your website to be private click No Now click the Finish button. 5

7 Adding content to your website Editing & Content Symbols Content means pictures, words, video clips, sound, web-links and files, like Word or PowerPoint files. You can add all of these things to your Klik in website. Each type of content has a corresponding symbol. Let s look at the different editing symbols you will find on your Klik in website. Add something Wherever you see this plus symbol it means you can add something. Change something Wherever you see the pencil symbol it means you can change or edit something. You can change any of your content at any time. Delete something Wherever you see the dustbin symbol it means that you can delete something. Always think carefully before you delete something. 6

8 Adding Sections Each circle on your Home page is a section. To add a section title and image click one of the Plus symbols on your Home page. Write the title of your section in the Title box Click the Browse button on the Image box. Choose a photo you want to use from your computer files. The photo you choose will appear in a circle on your homepage. If you also want to add audio, click the Browse button on the Audio box and choose an audio file from your computer files. You don t have to add audio now, you can do it later. Now click the Save button 7

9 The photo and section title that you choose will now appear in a circle on your Home page. Click on the circle to add content to the section If you want to change this picture or title use the pencil symbol. To delete the section use the dustbin symbol. Inside the section, a picture slide has automatically been set up, using the Klik in logo as a de-fault picture. Click the pencil to change the picture. You can now choose to change the image or add Words, audio, a link or a file to the slide. Just click on the appropriate icon. For example click on the camera icon to change the image 8

10 Click the Browse button & choose the picture that you would like to use. Label the image in a way that describes what the picture is for example Outdoors Click the Next button Add a title to your picture and write some words to go with the picture in the text box. You can highlight words by making them bold or underlining them. Then click the Save button You ll now see the image and words on your website. You can change them at any time using the pencil icon. 9

11 To add more slides to a section, click the plus icon. Now choose whether you want an image or a video slide by clicking either the Image or Video icon Click the Browse button and choose the video or image file you want to use. 10

12 Editing the Centre Circle Your website is automatically created with the Klik in logo in the centre circle as a de-fault image and About this Website set as the de-fault words. You can change the image and the words for the centre circle by clicking the pencil icon In Klik in websites the process for adding a picture is always the same click Browse and choose your file. Then choose the words you want to appear under your centre circle. Then click the Finish button. 11

13 Reorganising Content Reorganising Circle Sections You can re-organise the circle sections on your home page at any time. To re-organise the circle sections click on the icon underneath the central circle on your home page. You will now see the reorder website page. Click on the circle that you want to move. Hold the button and drag the circle to the place you want to move it. When you have reorganised your circles, click the Finish button. 12

14 Reorganising Page Slides You can change the order of your page slides at any time. Just click on the slide you want to move, hold your finger down and drag the slide to the place you want it to be. 13

15 Sharing Your Website If your website is private you can still share your website with family and friends by giving them your Read Only username and password. Using your Read Only username and password other people can login to Klik in and look at your website. They will not see the editing functions or symbols. They will not be able to edit or change your website. Viewing with normal editing Viewing with Read Only You can invite someone to look at your website by clicking Invite on your website Home Page. Then write the address of the person you would like to invite in the Invitee box, click the Invite button and then the Finish button. An automatic will be sent to the person giving them your Read Only username and password. 14

16 Working with Pictures, Words, Files & Links Naming your files: Try to give all your files (image, video, audio or other) a name that tells you what the file is about. Use small case letters. Do not put dashes, colons or any other symbols in the file name. 8 4 Image file formats: Klik in only accepts these types of image file: jpg, jpeg, png, and gif. Other types of image file will not work. Image file size: If your image file is too big it will be slow to upload, or it may fail to upload. Try to use images that are below 3000 KB in size. Attaching other files: You can attach other types of file to a Klik in slide, like Word documents or PowerPoint presentations. Give the file a name that people will understand 15

17 the file will appear as an attachment under the text on your slide. Adding web links: You can add a link to another website to your Klik in slide. Make sure that the website you link to is related to your image or words. Give the link a name that other people will understand. The link will appear under the text on your slide. Working with Audio Audio file formats: Klik in only accepts MP3 audio files. Other types of audio file will not work. Audio file length: Keep your audio clip short. Try to keep audio clips to less than 40 seconds. 16

18 Working with Video Clips Before you start What format is your video file? Klik in only accepts some types of video file: avi, flv, mov, mpg, mpeg, rm, and wmv. If a video file is not in one of these formats it will not upload to Klik in. Check that the video file is in one of these formats. If your file is in a different format you will need to convert it to an accepted format. What size is your video file? Klik in will not accept video files if they are too big. A video file should be 10mb or less. If a video file is bigger than 10mb then it will not upload to Klik in. If your file is too big you will need to compress it to a smaller size. What is the length of your video? Try to keep video clips short. The ideal length of a video clip is between 20 seconds and 1 minute. Keeping your clip short will help you to convey messages more effectively. 17

19 Adding Video To add a video clip to a section, click the plus symbol as shown on page 10. This will take you to the Make a Page screen. There are two ways to upload video to Klik in. You can upload video directly to your Klik in website from your computer. Or you can use videos that are already uploaded to your YouTube account. On the Make a Page screen, click the video icon. If you want to upload video directly, click the video icon. If you want to show a video clip from your YouTube account, click the YouTube icon. 18

20 To upload video from your computer, click the Browse button. Choose the file you want to use. Label the file to describe what the video is about. If you want to finish now and upload your video click Finish. Or if you want to continue and add sound and web links to the slide, click Next. If you clicked the YouTube icon you will see the Choose a video page. Choose the video you want to use by clicking the dot next to the video. Then click Finish. Your video will now display as a slide in your section. 19