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• When you become a Project Administrator at WorldFamilies:

  • We set up the project at FTDNA, if there is no existing project.
  • We set up (or edit) the Project Website at WorldFamilies.
  • We send you the codes you need to access the FTDNA GAP (Group Administrator’s Page).
  • We provide you with a user name and password to log in to edit your project’s website at www.WorldFamilies.net
  • We give you links to information pages you will need as administrator.
  • You can begin editing right away.
    
    
• Left Side Bar Tools for Administrators:
  • Logging In. You must log in using the user name and password that is designated as the Project Administrator for this project in order to see and use the editing tools.
  • “Track Project” feature
    • Click the “Track Project” in the left side bar of your project webpage so that a link will appear whenever you return to WorldFamilies and log in.
    • You can “track” several projects. (very helpful if you administer more than one project)
  • “Invite friend” sends an email to anyone you think may be interested in your project, giving them the opportunity to join the “community” even if not tested.
  • “## members tracking project” gives you information about anyone tracking this project and provides a way to communicate with them. This feature will become more valuable in the future, as it will allow the project administrator to bulk email this “community” and allow members to contact each other.
  • “My membership” allows those who are tracking the project to leave the project. It will have more features as we develop this tool.
  • “My account” allows you to change your email address and your name and email as displayed on the website.
    • The first screen will show your name, email address, and the groups (projects) you are tracking.
    • Click on the “Edit” tab to change your administrator’s password. Click “Save”
    • Click “Personal Information” to change the name and/or email displayed on your project’s web pages. Click ‘Save” to make the change.

Special Features on the Home Page: Edit this first!

• Choose the “Project Display Name” as it will be displayed on your website.
• Create the description of the Project that will be displayed on your website.
• Choose to use Worldfamilies’ Default text or create your own Custom text.
• Choose the pages you will use for your Project’s website.
  

Here’s how to make your choices:

Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.

Project Display Name: Type the name of your Surname DNA Project as it will be displayed on all the pages of your website.

Description: Type the tag line that will be displayed beneath the title of your Project on all the pages of your website (Default tag line is “Open to all families, any spelling”)

Display Default or Custom Text:

Default Text is the text created by Worldfamilies for the home page of the project website, and gives general information about DNA testing and surname projects.

Custom Text is your own text, which you can create in the text-editing box on the editing page, using the editing tools on the page. (The home page does not have an upload feature, so your editing will have to be done on the webpage.) You can use this page to tell the purposes of your project, special relationships you are looking for, or anything that you feel a visitor needs to know about your project.

Body Text: the editing box for creating and editing your own custom text, using the tool bar.

Menu Configuration: Check the box beside the listed pages to enable them to be displayed on your project’s website. If you “un-check” the box beside the page name, it will not appear on your website or on the menu across the top of your project’s website.

The “Upload” Button:

• This tool is available on these pages of your project’s website:
  Patriarch, y-Results, Join Project, mtDNA, Discussion, and Help.

• We strongly recommend you use the Upload HTML file feature for posting your project's results table on the Results Page and for any page with a lot of text.

Saving a Word Document or an  Excel Spreadsheet for upload as an HTML file

• Create your document as you want it to look when uploaded.  Don't put anything on the saved page that you do not want to appear on the website page.

• Although it seems that there should be only one way to save as an .htm or .html file, different project administrators have found different ways to do this.  The important thing is to make sure you save as a SINGLE page, so whenever you are given a choice, choose "SINGLE" page.  Try these methods and see which one works for you

  • For Word or Excel 2003 and before. 
    1. Click on "File"
    2. Click on "Save As" (Do not click on "Save as Webpage")
    3. Type the tile of the document in the box name "File Name"
    4. In the "Save as type" box choose "Web Page (*htm, *html)"
    5. Be sure you have saved the file in the directory you want and click "Save"

  • For Word 2007, Office 2007, or Excel 2007, one of these four methods should enable you to save the file as an .html file:

Method 1  Office 2007
1. Click on the button on the top left corner of your screen
2. Click “Save As”
3. Click “Other Formats”
4. For “Save as Type”, choose “Web Page (*htm, *html)
5. Name your spreadsheet and save

Method 2 Office 2007
1. Select “Save as a web page”
2. In next window,  place right above the publish button says "Save: Entire Workbook" or 3."Republish Sheet”
3. Select "Republish Sheet"
4. Instead of hitting the save button, hit the publish button.
5. The saved file will upload.

Method 3 Office 2007
1.  Convert the Word document to html source.
2.  Copying only the source statements inside the DIV tags. Apparently some of the other tags outside of the DIV tags conflict with the html editor
3.  Save as html file and upload.

Method 4 Excel 2007
1.  Click on the round button at the top left-hand corner.
2.  Mouse over the Save as button and move the cursor to the right to the    drop-down box; select Excel 97-2003 Workbook; save a copy of the workbook that is fully compatible with Excel 97-2003.
3.  Name your spreadsheet and save.  Don't select any other "type" in the lower box; leave it as is. 
4.  Open this new spreadsheet and save it as a web page.  Entire Workbook (default)
b.  Save as type: Web Page
c.  Publish.
d.  In the pop-up box, Publish
5.  The spreadsheet saves as HTML and this version fully loads on the y-results page.

Uploading your file to the Project web page:
Go to your project's web page, logged in as project administrator.
Click the "Upload" button at the top of the page.
Click "Browse" to find the file on your computer and double click on it.
When the name of the correct file appears in the box, click "Save and Publish"
The file will appear on your website page.

Notes:
1. If your file doesn’t upload:
Try uploading the same file again, as it may work when you try again.
You may need to re-save the file as an HTML file, using the methods listed earlier.
Click the “Edit” button and make sure you have chosen “Choice 1: Custom”
2. You can use any software, saved as an HTM or HTML file, to create your page.

Editing the Patriarch Page:  Click here for instructions.

Using the Editing Tools in the text editor tool bar

• The "Undo" arrow is your best friend--it will take you back, step by step, through your editing process, so you will be able to retrieve any steps you lost and go back to a previous version The "Undo" Arrow is the in the top row of the tool bar, the arrow curving to the left.   If you wish to abandon all your edits and go back to the original version of the text before you began editing,  just click on the "back" button on your browser screen.
  

• To make the editing screen larger – There are two ways to do this:

  • Use the “arrow” on the lower right corner to stretch the box out and down to make it larger.

  • Use the “Toggle fullscreen mode” (symbol like a monitor in the tool bar) to make the editing box the full size of your screen. You will need to click this symbol again when you are ready to Save.
    

• Insert a hyperlink Highlight the word or phrase on your page that you want to make into a link to another page.  Click on the chain symbol (above) and put the url of the page you are linking to in the blank for “Link URL”.  If you are linking to a page on the WorldFamilies website, delete everything in the url from the www.worldfamilies to the slash /.   Click “Insert”, and you have made a link.
  

• Insert a table.  Place your curser in the spot in the text where you would like a table.  Click on the icon shown above.  Choose the number of rows and columns you want for your table.  It may be easier to change the width to percent instead of pixels and choose how big you want the table.  (100 per cent would be all the way across the page.)  Click “Insert” when you have made your choices.  Then you can place text or whatever you like in the table cells.  To change anything on the table, place your curser on the table, right click your mouse.  Then click on  "Table Properties"    If you want to change just one cell, place the curser in the cell, right click, then click on "Cell" and then "Cell Properties".  If you want to delete the whole table, right click, then click on "Delete Table".

• Insert an photo (image) You may display images (photos) on your project's web pages, as long as they are stored somewhere on the internet.  If you have photos you would like to display on the project's web pages, but do not have them saved as a file on the internet, there are a number of websites that will do this for you.  Any easy way to do this is with Google Picasa, a free program that allows you to edit photos, organize albums, aznd upload to the web. Here’s how to do it:

  • Go to http://picasa.google.com and download Picasa to your computer.

  • Follow the instructions to upload the photos you want on your website into a web album.

  • View the photo you want to add to your webpage and right-click on it and select “properties”

  • Copy the url for the photo.

  • Go to your project’s website and log in as admin.

  • Click on "Edit this page".

  • Place your curser on the place where your would like the photo to appear.

  • Click on the image for Insert/Edit Image (symbol with a tree in the top row of the toolbar).

  • Paste the url of the photo you uploaded to Picasa into the url box.

  • Click on the “Appearance” tab to choose the width and height of the photo (start with 200 for the width, save it, look at the photo, and then adjust until you get it the size you want.)

    • Click “Update” , to see the photo on the page.

    • When you are satisfied with the placement and size of the photo, click “Save” at the bottom of the page.

    • To change anything about the photo, click the “Edit” button, place your cursor on the photo, right click, select “Insert/edit image”, and you can change any of the settings.

    • If you've never done this before, you may have to play with it several times to get the photo looking the way you want.