St. Thomas Community Presbyterian Church

Special Announcements

As an administrator, you have the ability to create special announcements for your Website.  These announcements will run as a "popup" window whenever someone first visits your site.

Example Announcement Popup

(NOTE: Depending on your design, your Website may use a technique other than a popup for special announcements.  For instance, it may appear as a scrolling ticker, flashing announcement, etc.)  Unique features of the SiteOrganic announcement system include:

  • Announcement will display for your visitors no matter what page hit first on your site (doesn't have to be your home page)
  • Even if your visitors use a popup-blocker program, they'll still see your announcement
  • Once your visitors view and close the announcement, it will not appear again unless they close their browser and revisit the site
  • You can have multiple announcements running at the same time, each with different information, links, etc.
  • Announcements are scheduled to run between certain dates

 

Adding a Special Announcement to your Website

  1. From the Admin Console, choose Site Administration > Special Announcements.
  2. Click the "Add a New Message" button.
  3. Complete the following fields as needed:
    • Message Title:  This will appear as the title for your announcement (typically in bold and/or larger type)
    • Message Text:  This is the text of your announcement.  This field will accept HTML, although you should consult your designer to ensure that HTML formatting is supported on your site.
    • Start Date/End Date:  Enter the dates for this announcement to run.  The announcement will be visible on your Website from 12:00am on the start date until 11:59pm on the end date.
    • URL:  If you would like to include a link to another page, enter the URL here.
    • Image Path:  if your Website's announcement feature allows images, you may specify one here.  You may either enter the address of a JPG file, or click the "Choose" link to browse the file manager and pick one.
    • Publish:  Your announcement will only become active on the Website if the "Publish" box is checked.  This is a manual override that takes precedent over the start/end dates.  In other words, even if your announcement is set to run on a given day, it will still stay hidden if the publish box is not checked.
  4. Click the "Submit" button to save your announcement.