Edit the home page with the content management system
Keep your home page fresh. Your Accent-on-Business content management system can be configured to draw content automatically from various areas of your site. But why not use the opportunity to 'hand-build' the most important page on your site, highlighting your current sales message and pointing out highlights that visitors 'just have to vist'...
You can have your Accent-on-Business content management system configured so that it automatically displays recently updated content for you, automatically updating the home page. But there are some powerful advantages to using the Accent-on-Business home page tool to give your site that extra marketing edge, providing easy control over new sales messages and to highlight particular stories within the site to your visitors.To
To achieve this there are two different blocks of content you can put on your home page (two is the default) -- features and briefs. Depending on the site design these could be anywhere on your
page(!). A feature is a major story, preferably with pictures and links to 'important' content within the site. A brief is a shorter story. Here is an example...
To add a feature story to your site, click on the Add new home page content button in the add/edit site content area. This looks just like the normal add an article screen. Fill in the title fields and select Home page feature from thdropdownwn menu. Then build your story using the content management system'wysiwygyg editor, adding links to your newest key pages and accentuating your current marketing message. Visitors prefer to click on links in a story to scrolling their way through menus, so time spent here can pay dividends in getting people to stick around on your site. When you are finished, submit as normal and review your nepage.You
You can use the content management system to add as many features as you like. Briefs are added in the same way except that text in the description field is ignored. And the story should have Home page brief selected as the parent.