This movie is a brief introduction into the backend of the CMS we use to design the free websites we are offering here at Aliarts. This video will show you just how easy it is to create, manage, add and edit content once we have the system in place for you.

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Hi there, and welcome to our video to introduce you to the open source content management system we use here at Aliarts to create our websites. This is just a brief introduction to show you just how easy it is to create, change, and manage your own content once we have the system in place for you.

Here is a demo I prepared earlier to introduce you to the system we use. Your website won’t look quite like this, but the five pages that we have put in place for you will be in the same kind of format. For example, your fully customised, professional looking five page website includes a Home Page, an About Us Page and a Contact Us Page which includes a Google Map featuring directions to your business. These will usually be in your top menu bar.

The other two pages will highlight your top two services, which we would have written you a nice, search engine friendly title for, and dropped in your content. You’ll find them over here in your side menu.

So let’s log on to the system and have a look.

First of all go up to your address bar and type in wp-admin at the end of your address. This will give you access to your login screen. You then type in the login provided in the e-mail we sent to notify you your website was ready to start adding your own content.

Once you’ve safely logged on, you’ll find yourself at the dashboard of the backend of your website. If you’ve never encountered anything like this before it may seem a little daunting at first. While the system may not be as you drag and drop as budget website builders, it is infinitely more powerful when it comes to getting actual visitors to your Web site. We believe there is no other content management system out there as search engine friendly as the one we use.

So with a slight learning curve (about as much as learning how to use your e-mail) you have access to a powerfully optimised system, that’s ready to start driving qualified traffic to your business straight away.

So let’s go through all of the options one by one.

As you can see, up here on your left is your dashboard. This is where you will find everything you need to manage the system in a nice tidy list.

First of all let’s take a look at the posts menu.

Your posts are what are seen on the home page of your website. The two options you will use in this menu are edit, and add new. If we click on edit, this will bring up the post seen here on the home page, and we can quickly click and edit this post however we choose. But we’ll go into more detail in our editing posts video later in the series.

Next in our posts menu we have add new.

As your homepage acts as a latest news page about your business, every time something newsworthy in your business comes up you could add a new post to your homepage telling the world all about it. Constantly updating content is something else the search engines absolutely love, so you should aim to add something newsworthy about your business to your homepage at least once a week. Your previous posts won’t be lost, they will simply be linked to from the homepage. But more on this later.

Next stop is your pages menu.

This is where you will find everything else on your website, other than your homepage. Much the same as your posts menu you have an edit and an add new button, which work in the same way as your homepage posts. Again we have a video that goes into more detail on how to edit and add new pages.

The very last thing we need to look at is our NAVT lists right down here at the bottom.

Now, this may look complicated, but just like any thing once you know how it is very simple to use. This is where you will control your sidebar menu by dragging and dropping the list around, and renaming the link text. This is in case you would like to have the link text different to the title on the page. This is also a great way to pack more keywords into your website. But once again, more on this later.

So in the meantime, please feel free to visit http://FreeWebsiteDesign.co.nz for more information. You will see a link there in the sidebar.

So there we have it, an introduction to the open source content management system we use here at Aliarts to put together your website for you. Thanks for watching and we looking forward to hearing from you.