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How to set up your personal wedding siteWhen you create a personalised wedding site at the Hitching Post, the first thing that you will be asked to do is register with the Hitching Post. All you need to do is complete the form by filling in some details about you and your partner (questions marked with an asterisk (*) need to be answered, so we can give you the best service possible). Then you are asked to set a password for visitors to your personal site, so only those people that you wish to view the site have access to it.
After you have filled in these questions, you have the opportunity to create your personal wedding site. If you look, you will see that the screen is split in two. On the left of the screen is the list of pages that you can include on your site, and on the right of the screen is the area in which you enter information that will be displayed on the screen.
As an example, look at the first screen that is displayed – the Ceremony/Service page. First, click on the circle next to ceremony or service, depending on which word you wish to use.
Then you have three boxes in which you can enter information about the ceremony:
- General information about the Ceremony/Service
- Hymn information
- Information about the signing of the register
You can also add images to the page – clicking on the ‘Browse’ button allows you to attach a picture that you have stored on your home computer to the page. You can also add a comment to the picture. For example, you might like to put a picture of the Venue, or a picture of you and your partner.
At any time, you can click the ‘preview’ button. This will give you a look at how the page will appear in its final form. If you are happy with the way it looks, click on the save button. If not, click on back to return to the editing page. You can also save the information from the editing page, again by clicking on the save button.
Once a page is saved, you can view the page by clicking on the appropriate title on the left of the screen. If you look at the Ceremony page you have just created, you will see a button marked ‘Section is visible to guests’ at the bottom of the page. This means that when guests log onto your personal site, they will be able to view the page. Clicking on the button changes it to ‘Section is not visible to guests’, and the guests will not be able to view the page. You can also change the information on the page by clicking on the ‘Edit Page’ button.
Other pages are edited in the same way, with a few minor differences:
Directions Page
The Directions page allows you to automatically generate a map for your venue. To do this, click on ‘Use Multimap’ and enter the Postcode in the box provided.
The Guest List
The Guest List enables you to keep track of those people invited to the wedding. There are options on this page to create guests, delete guests, edit guests, and change the order in which the guests appear on the list. When creating a guest, there are tick boxes to select which parts of the day the person is invited to. Each person is automatically added to the appropriate lists. Therefore, when you then create pages for the reception or the evening, anyone that had the reception box ticked whilst you were creating the ceremony guest list will appear on the other lists as well.
The Table Planner
When opening the table planner it needs to load content. On the first screen after a moment or two a message will appear saying 'you have added XX guests to your list........', wait for this to show your number of guests before clicking the arrow for the next page. If you click early your table layout on the next page shows a blank which will lead you to believe that you have lost your information.
Please do not be alarmed at this point as you haven’t lost any data, just start again and wait for that number to show up.
After The Wedding
In the after the wedding section, there is a photo gallery. You can use this to create an online photo album for everyone to see the photos of the big day. Photos are added in the same way as the images are on the other pages of your personal site.
The Calender
The Calendar can be used to plan out the events leading up to the big day. To add dates to the calendar, you first have to select the month in which the event will take place. Use the drop down menu to select the month, and then click go. You then have a day-by-day list that you can add events to. Just click on the add button next to the relevant date.
Saving Your Data
Some members of our website have previously reported difficulty when they attempt to save their work. One of the main problems we have seen is when people are going to and from their Hitching Post site and other areas of the internet. Please ensure that once you have logged into your account you won't need to login again until you reboot your PC. Once logged in, if you go away to check your email for example, on return to The Hitching Post site you will not need to log-in again. If you look to the left of the log-in area you should be offered an option of 'return to my site'. If you click that option you will be taken back to where you left off with all work intact. |
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