Changing your Home Page Text:
This is also done on the same TNG Admin page titled Setup >> Configuration >> Template Settings. Go to the section labeled Welcome paragraph:
Here is a window showing the default text that you will want to change. The easiest way to begin is just to select all of this text, and begin writing the text you want. When you are done, click the Save button at the bottom of the Page to enable your changes.
You may want more time to think about the text on your home page, but it would still be a good idea to get rid of the default ‘Lorem ipsum’ text. You could simply change the text to read something like: “This is the new website for the XYZ Study. It is still Work in Progress, so do keep checking it out”. Alternatively you could simply leave the section blank.
After saving, when you go back to your home page, you will notice that there is no formatting to your new text. Html (hypertext markup language) coding is needed to be added to provide this formatting. Html has been developed to format text-based web pages, and is used in a similar way. Note that different html codes are placed before and after selected text to affect it.
What follows are some of the most useful html codes:
<b>Bold</b>
<font color=”red”>Red text</font>
[For more options, color codes can be used instead of the words for colors. The code for red for example, is #FF0000, and must also be in quotes].
Here is a link to help find the correct code for the colour you want: Colour Codes
<br>Insert a line break [There is no end code]
<a href=”https://aaa.com”>Insert an external website link (outside your TNG site), with this text as the visible link name.</a>
<a href=”http://members_data/0000aa/histories/The early Lords of Atherton.pdf”>The Early Lords of Atherton</a> [This is an example of an internal website link (inside your TNG site) to a pdf document titled The Early Lords of Atherton, which has already been uploaded to your site’s Histories Media Collection, or will be uploaded there. Note that your own personal data sub-folder code must be used in place of the 0000aa used in this example. Your code is available from the bottom of your home page.]
<i>Italics</i>
<p>Insert a paragraph break </p>
Points to note: When formatting a block of text, both a beginning html code and an ending html code are required. Note that the ending code is the same as the beginning code, except that the ending code is also preceded by a backslash “/”. Html codes can be written using either small letters or capitalized letters.
If you are not confident about including Html codes, you do not have to use them.
After you have inserted the html coding you desire, remember to go to the bottom of the page and click Save again to enable your new formatting changes.