After setup: a checklist
The guided setup puts your choir's name and a few words in place. This checklist covers what is worth doing next, roughly in order. It is for whoever is getting a new site ready to show people. Each line links to the page that explains it.
Make it yours
- Check the choir's time zone and currency: Your choir's name, place, currency and time zone
- Upload your logo: Your logo and browser-tab icon
- Pick a look, or adjust the one you chose: Choose a ready-made theme
- Set the picture and words at the top of the home page: The top of your home page
- Write the About text and replace the sample leaders with your own: About your choir and its leaders
- Check the contact details and where contact form messages go: Contact details and social media
- Check the footer: The footer
Add what visitors come for
- Add your next concerts: Add a concert
- Upload photos to the gallery: Upload photos and videos to the gallery
- Fill in the Auditions page, or switch it off: Your Auditions page
- Fill in the Tickets page: Your Tickets page
- Fill in the Donate page: Your Donate page
- Add any page of your own, such as a history of the choir: Add a page of your own
Tidy up
- Switch off the pages and features you will not use, so that no sample content is left showing: Switch pages and features on or off
- Look at your public site as a visitor would, on a phone as well as a computer: How your public site is put together
- Add a second admin, so that the site does not depend on one person: Add, change or remove an admin
Members
These need the member portal, which on a site we host is part of the Starter and Premium plans.
- Set up the member portal: Set up the member portal
- Set up your sections and voice parts: Set up your sections and voice parts
- Add your members, one at a time or from a spreadsheet: Import your member list
- Add your weekly rehearsal: Add your weekly rehearsal once
- Post a first announcement: Post an announcement
Tickets and donors
On a site we host, these need the Premium plan.
- Set up tickets for your next concert: Set up tickets for a concert
- Start your donor records: Donors: how it works
If we host your site
If you run the site yourself
Once the site is live, A routine for keeping the site up to date suggests what to look at each month and each season.