Scoop Hosted Websites USER MANUAL - INTRODUCTION Phone: +61 8 9388 8188 Email: scoop@scoopdigital.com.au Website: scoopdigital.com.au
Index 1 Welcome to your Scoop Digital Hosted Website!... 3 2 Overview... 4 3 What is different about Scoop Digital Hosted Websites?... 5 4 Scoop Online Guide Content Licensing... 6 5 Scoop Digital Hosted Website Examples... 7 6 Glossary of Terms... 9 6.1 Scoop Specific Terms... 9 6.2 General Terms... 10 \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 2 of 12
1 Welcome to your Scoop Digital Hosted Website! With as little as one to two hours of training and support, and the information provided in this detailed manual, non-technical users can create and update stunning websites with an impressively broad range of functionality. As new and exciting web-design trends, tools and functionalities emerge, bespoke developments will be captured by Scoop Digital and rolled out to all customers, making them available for use on your website. This provides you with the assurance that your website will not be out-dated in this rapidly changing digital world, and that you will benefit from all functional development on the Scoop Digital platform always! The result is continuous development on your website heading into the future. The Scoop Digital manuals (including this one) allow non-technical users to operate their own websites, significantly reducing operating costs and creating stunning products that punch way above their weight! The Umbraco platform, underpinning your website is powerful open-source software being used by thousands of developers and millions of users across the world every day! It is deployed on Microsoft-based infrastructure and therefore integrates perfectly with popular software applications such as MS Word. Scoop Digital can also be contracted to build and maintain your website content, if required. In summary, Scoop Hosted Websites provide a fully developed, robust web solution meeting the needs of most clients straight out of the box, with less risk and far less cost than fully bespoke website. The standard tools available on your Scoop Hosted Website should satisfy the majority of your design and functional needs. These standard tools have been thoroughly tested across all platforms and devices, to ensure they are fully responsive, bug-free and working as intended. This level of robustness and reliability is one of the strongest aspects of the Scoop Hosted Website system. \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 3 of 12
2 Overview Consider this your map to building and maintaining your own awesome website! This manual is laid out to show you what you can achieve, using examples. It then tells you how. Step-by-step. How far you go in terms of your website complexity is up to you but even if you have never built a website before, we promise you will create something you will be proud of by using our Hosted Website Technology. Section 1: Big Ideas This section is devoted to getting you to see the style of websites you can create. It shows you many examples and gets you used to some of the basic jargon. Section 2: Collecting your Content Websites are generally made up of images, videos, links, text and some administrative bits like logos and address details. This section tells you how to get all this data together and best format it ready for use on your new site! Section 3: Getting Started on Your Site This is where it gets exciting! You will populate your website with the Content you have collected. Remember to keep flicking back to Section 1 if any of the terminology doesn t register. Section 4: Advanced Features This is the section devoted to items you may want to do but never thought you would or could. It includes detailed customisations of the various site components and things like linking to social media, incorporating external content such as the Scoop Guides, customising headers, adding ads, and loads of other great features that will bring your site on par or beyond anything else out there. Through the entire process you are about to undertake and don t be surprised if you find yourself sipping a café latte proudly while clicking through your new site tomorrow afternoon remember that the Scoop Digital team is here to support you. Please contact Harriette Smith on (08) 9388 8188 with any queries. \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 4 of 12
3 What is different about Scoop Digital Hosted Websites? Your Scoop Hosted Website is built on the world-class Umbraco platform. Scoop has invested heavily in modifying this open-source software to create a secure platform that meets all of the needs of the nontechnical user. It is hosted on Scoop s existing infrastructure, thereby removing the need for you to worry about security and performance, and providing design and functionality that is typically only available through years of web-design experience and training. Scoop Digital has also made it possible to seamlessly integrate Scoop s Online Guides and other Third Party Services commonly required on Western Australian and national websites, including e-commerce, newsletters and booking systems. New Third Party Services can be added onto your website as required, significantly increasing the functionality and design of your site. Scoop Digital is constantly reviewing new designs and functions that can be integrated into your site at no additional cost to you. These integrations are commonly required by Australian businesses, such as Shopify, Levart, Dimmi and Bookeasy. An OPT OUT system offers additional functionality for membership-based organisations. \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 5 of 12
4 Scoop Online Guide Content Licensing If you are keen to enrich the content of your own website, and you do not have the resources to produce high quality information on events, arts, community or travel why not license the Scoop Online Guides? Scoop can attach their informative and researched content to your site and offer your clients or customers a bespoke level of information for Perth, WA. The seamless integration of the Scoop Online Guides (Events, Travel & Lifestyle Community, Homes & Design, Functions & Events) adds significant value to relevant websites, providing content updated daily, and reducing time spent and thereby the cost of site management. Scoop Online Guides can be accessed through www.scoop.com.au. These Guides are all available for licensing to your Scoop Hosted Website. Perth Airport is an example of how the Scoop Online Guides can be showcased on third party websites. This is an ideal solution for clients who want exhaustive content on their website, but do not have the capacity to capture these vast quantities of content. http://www.perthairport.com.au/visitorinformation/artsandevents.aspx \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 6 of 12
5 Scoop Digital Hosted Website Examples These websites have been designed using the Scoop Hosted Website system, and are examples of what can be achieved on your website. www.dongaraportdenison.com.au www.scoophomes.com.au \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 7 of 12
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6 Glossary of Terms 6.1 Scoop Specific Terms Scoop Digital Scoop Digital refers to Scoop Digital Pty Ltd, which is a separate entity to Scoop Publishing. ACN: 607 623 156. Content Licensing This is a product offered by Scoop Digital which allows us to seamlessly share content across a multitude of different sites using iframes. Scoop Directories Scoop maintains five directories, each which contains multiple online guides. The five directories are; Events, Lifestyle & Travel, Functions & Venues, Homes & Design and Community. Scoop Online Guides There are 27 guides under the Scoop Directories, which as of January 2016 includes more than 5,500 full page profiles. Content from these guides power multiple third party websites. Umbraco Umbraco is an open source content management system (CMS) platform used to publish content on the World Wide Web and intranets. This is the CMS that is used by Scoop Digital to create Scoop hosted websites. \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 9 of 12
6.2 General Terms It is not important that you fully understand the below terminology at this stage. You will be introduced to the various concepts and nomenclature as you progress through this manual. CSS CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) along with HTML it is the basic language of all websites. Back End The back end of a website is the part hidden from view of regular website visitors. Breadcrumb Breadcrumbs are the bit of navigation elements that generally appear near the top of a web page that show you the pages and subpage that appear before the page you re on. For example, on a blog, the breadcrumbs might look something like: Home > Category > Year > Month > Post. Bounce Rate A website s bounce rate is the percentage of people who leave the site from the same page they entered the site, without clicking through to any other pages. Browser Browser refers to the program a website visitor is using to view the web site. Examples include Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer. Cache/Caching Cached files are those that are saved or copied (downloaded) by a web browser so that the next time that user visits the site, the page loads faster. CMS A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing, modifying, organizing, deleting, and maintaining content from a central interface. DNS DNS, which stands for domain name system, controls your domain name's website and email settings Domain name \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 10 of 12
The domain name is the part of a network address which identifies it as belonging to a particular domain e.g. Scoop Digital E-Commerce E-commerce refers to commercial transactions conducted electronically over the Internet. Embedded The "embed code" is a block of HTML which is embedded in the page-source and creates the video object in doing so. It needs to be obtained from a site already hosting the video, because the "embed code" points back to that site (e.g. YouTube). Front End The front end is all the components of a website that a visitor to the site can see (pages, images, content, etc.) HTML Stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It s the primary language used to write web pages. HTML is primarily intended as a way to provide content on websites (with CSS handling the layout and stylistic options), though it can also be used to determine how that content is displayed. Hyperlink A hyperlink is a link from one web page to another, either on the same site or another one. iframe iframe is short for Inline Frame. An iframe is used to display one or more web pages within another normal web page (one that isn t a frameset page). Landing Page A landing page is a web page which serves as the entry point for a website or a particular section of a website. Macro A macro refers to the integration of third party widgets, such as Scoop s various guides, live weather, contact forms, BookEasy, Dimmi etc. Meta Data Meta data is the data contained in the header that offers information about the web page that a visitor is currently on. The information contained in the Meta data isn t viewable on the web page (except in the source code). Meta data is contained within Meta tags. \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 11 of 12
Navigation Navigation refers to the system that allows visitors to a website to move around that site. Navigation is most often thought of in terms of menus, but links within pages, breadcrumbs, related links, pagination, and any other links that allow a visitor to move from one page to another are included in navigation. Template A template is a file used to create a consistent design across a website. Templates are often used in conjunction with a CMS and contain both structural information about how a site should be set up, but also stylistic information about how the site should look. URL URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A site s URL is its address, the item that specifies where on the Internet it can the found. Web Hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. \\dc01fp\redirected$\harriette.smith\desktop\scoop Hosted Websites User Manual - Introduction Rev1.docx Page 12 of 12