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The following guide provides a quick and easy step by step build to help you get your website up and running from scratch.
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The following guide provides a quick and easy step-by-step guide to get you started building a website using a [[Website Channel]] in unroole. This guide already assumes you already have a [[Profile]] and and [[Account]] setup on unroole. If you do not have a [[Profile]] and and [[Account]], you will need an invitation or pre-setup profile first. If you have a profile but do not have an account yet, you can simply follow the [[Account#Creating A New Account |Creating A New Account]] section of the [[Account]] article.
  
== Create Website Channel ==
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== Creating A New Website Channel ==
  
The following steps will help guide you through creating a new website channel. If you already have a website channel, skip to the next step.
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{{:Channel Creation}}
  
After logging in follow these steps:
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== Where To Go From Here ==
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<li>Select from the top navigation bar the account you want the website be created for.</li>
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After creating the website channel, there are many tools that you can use to customize your website channel. Here is some of the most useful tool you should check out in details:
<li>Click "Account" on the left.</li>
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* [[Pages]]
<li>Click "Channel" under "Account"</li>
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* [[Layout Editor]]
<li>Click "Create a new channel" button</li>
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* [[Widgets]]
<li>Fill out the information for this channel. If this is your first time creating a website channel we recommend you check the "Seed channel data" so that sample data can be seeded to your website for you to play with.</li>
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* [[Channel Layout]]
<li>After clicking "Submit" you will be redirected to the website channel dashboard. From here you can click on the "View Live Site" to see the live site. If you have checked "Seed channel data" on the previous step, your website will look similar to the below, otherwise it will just be blank since you have not yet added any data to the website.</li>
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* [[Stylesheets]]
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* [[Javascript]]

Latest revision as of 10:46, 22 November 2012

The following guide provides a quick and easy step-by-step guide to get you started building a website using a Website Channel in unroole. This guide already assumes you already have a Profile and and Account setup on unroole. If you do not have a Profile and and Account, you will need an invitation or pre-setup profile first. If you have a profile but do not have an account yet, you can simply follow the Creating A New Account section of the Account article.

Creating A New Website Channel

  1. Login to your profile and select the account you want the website to associate with from the top navigation.

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    Select Account
  2. Navigate to 'Channels' under 'Accounts' from the left navigation bar.

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    Navigate to Channels
  3. Click 'Create a new channel'.
  4. Choose the channel type you want to create, for this example we will use website, so click 'Website'.

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    Choose Website for channel type
  5. Complete the mandatory fields, then click 'Submit'. Most of the fields are pretty straight forward, the only one you might need more detail is Vanity Domains.

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    Fields for website channel
  6. After the successful creation, you will be redirect to the channel dashboard. If you have seeded your channel you can click on 'View Live Site' on the right of the top navigation bar to see the website. If you did not seed your channel, you can navigate to 'Pages' under 'Channel Content' to create pages for your channel.

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    Channel Pages

Where To Go From Here

After creating the website channel, there are many tools that you can use to customize your website channel. Here is some of the most useful tool you should check out in details: