You would know by now that on Monday 22 November, all SportingPulse websites will be receiving a major upgrade, mainly in terms of functionality and an improved look-and-feel.One of the changes involves moving to horizontal top-menu navigation only, so that the area for all page layouts - including fixtures, results and stats - can be maximised. This will impact you if you currently use left and/or right menus, because they will soon disappear…
Why are we telling you this?
Even though you won’t lose any of your menu items or pages (or any information!), we don’t want you getting caught out when the changes occur. This email is designed to get you to begin the process of re-structuring your top menu, so that your site will be ready to go when the when the switch gets flicked.
Left and right menu items will migrate
If your site currently has any left-column or right-column menu items, these will be migrated into the top-menu. In your website back-end, you can use the Content Manager to re-structure your top menu into a logical series of top-level headings – AND there’s no reason this can’t be done right now in order to prepare your site for November 22nd.
Can the top menu have sub-pages?
Yes. Your website will allow for three levels of sub-navigation. Simply create these in the Content Manager by clicking the ‘Add new Sub-Menu’ button within the top menu.How do you structure your new top menu?
Now is an ideal time to plan your site’s menu structure. You are welcome to use as few or as many top-level menu items as you wish, but for optimum usability we recommend between 6 and 10. We also recommend keeping menu item names as short as possible.
For example: Home, News, Results, Sponsors, About Us, Contact, Photos.
Drawing a grid such as the one below is a good way to plan and consider what pages you want on your site, and to see where all your pages and sub-pages should fit.
Test out your site changes NEXT WEEK
Next Monday (15 November), you will have access to a test version of your website with the new changes on it, so you can play around and find out first-hand how the changes will affect your site - both in terms of the menus, as well as colours and display.
To access this test environment, a link will be provided within the right-hand column of your Site Administration Control Panel once you are logged in.
Want more Information?
There are still spaces available in the two remaining webinars we are running next week for those interested in hearing more detail about the upgrades.
Webinar Details:
| Date | Time (AEDST) | Registration |
| Tue 16 Nov | 11:00am – 12:00pm | Click here to register |
| Thu 18 Nov | 3:00pm – 4:00pm | Click here to register |
Stay tuned to the SportingPulse Product Blog for more info, or Contact Us for any further enquiries.
what would be nice is the ability to upload own headers
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback - if you have your own header designed, we will upload it for you at no cost (until end of November!)
ReplyDeleteCheers, Andrew
Andrew, We want to change our logo on our header. Can you do this and if so where do we send the new Logo to?
ReplyDeleteHi Jason,
ReplyDeleteYou should easily be able to change your logo in the header from the website editor - the only exception would be if your site has a custom header. in this case, you'd need SportingPulse to help.
If you do need help, email websites@sportingpulse.com with a link to your site.
Cheers, Andrew