Homepage

Your homepage sets the tone for the entire website. 

It's important to update your homepage regularly and to use great images that parents and community members will love.

Example homepage:

These how-to guides will help you set up your homepage and keep it up to date:

• Theme and colour
• Quick Links
• School header
• Mega Nav
• Banner image
• Hero banner
• Divider
• Latest news
• Upcoming events
• Latest newsletter
• Image gallery
• Social media
• School footer
• Social Links

Navigate to the homepage

• Log in to Adobe Experience Manager and select Sites.

• Your school's home page will already be selected.
• Select the icon to the left of Home. The tick will appear and your selection will turn blue.
• Select Edit in the menu bar that appears across the top of the screen. 

Homepage in edit view

• A new tab will open and display your homepage in edit mode. You are now ready to edit your website. 

Global header

The global header includes:

• a direct link to NSW Department of Education education.nsw.gov.au
• a Google translate language selection drop-down menu
• a Log in drop-down menu with links to:
  • Student portal
  • Staff portal
  • Inside the department
  • Edit this site

Example of a global header: 

Quick Links

Quick Links are shortcuts to popular and important pages on your school's website.

Go to our Quick Links guide to learn how to hide links that are not relevant to your school.

Example of Quick Links: 

School header

The School header is the area at the top of your school's website that displays information about your school.

Go to our School header guide to learn how to make changes in this section.

Example of a School header:

Mega Nav

The Mega Nav is the main menu on your website.

Go to our Mega Nav guide to learn how to add, edit, move or remove links.

Example of a Mega Nav:

Banner image

The Banner image is the main image on the homepage.

Go to our Banner image or Hero banner guides to learn how to make changes to these components.

Example of a Banner image:

Latest news

The Latest news component displays the most recent news article pages from your website automatically.

Go to our Latest news guide to learn how to make changes to this component.

Example of the Latest news section with news articles that have thumbnails:

Example of the Latest news section with news articles that don't have thumbnails:

Upcoming events

The Upcoming events component displays the upcoming event pages from your website.

Go to our Upcoming events guide to learn how to make changes to this component.

Example of Upcoming events:

Latest newsletter

The Latest newsletter component creates a link to the latest newsletter on your website.

Go to our Latest newsletter guide to learn how to make changes to this component.

Example of Latest newsletter:

Image gallery

The Image gallery component displays the latest album pages from your website automatically.

Go to our Image gallery guide to learn how to make changes to this component.

Example Image gallery:

Social media

The Social media component displays posts from your school's social media platforms automatically.

Go to our Social Links guide to learn how to add or remove social media accounts from your school's website.

Go to our Social media guide to learn how to make changes to this component and the way your social media posts are displayed.

Example Social media:

School footer

The School footer is the area at the bottom of your school's website that displays information about your school.

Go to our School footer guide to learn how to make changes in this section.

Example School footer:

Global footer

The Global footer includes:

• a direct link to NSW Department of Education education.nsw.gov.au
• links to:
  • Accessibility
  • Policy library
  • Information access
  • Department contacts
  • Privacy
  • Copyright

The Global footer cannot be adjusted.

Example Global footer:

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