General Settings

The General Settings section is where you can control many aspects of your site. It enables you to decide exactly what features you want to display.

To enable or disable a feature, just tick to enable or un-tick to disable any feature. Click Update settings to save your changes.

Enable my pages

This section allows you to manage which pages you use on your Web site.

General settings

This section allows you to manage which site features you wish to use.

School logo

If you wish to use your school logo on your site header, you must upload it first. Click 'Click here' to dislay a form to upload your logo or symbol.

Your logo must be a GIF file and 100 pixels square. The system will reduce your file and produce a square format to the correct size. However, if your image is large or not exactly square, the quality of it will be seriously reduced and the image may appear distorted. Where possible, reduce your image area to the size suggested.

Click Update settings to save your changes.

Google Maps

Also see: Google Maps - iFrame version

EISite2 provides a tool for displaying Google Maps on your Web pages.You must enter information that you get from Google in order for the map to be displayed on your pages. You will need to get a Key and a Map Reference.

Click here for information about using Google maps or to get your key and map reference

Click the sign up now >> link and fill in the form to generate a Key.

Key

When asked by Google, type in your school Web address (yourschool.kent.sch.uk). Google will generate a Key. Carefully type or paste in the key that Google generates into the box provided in your General Settings | Google Maps section. This is a string of 86 characters. This generated key is unique and will only work on your domain.

Map reference

You can center your map on your school. Type or paste in the map reference from Google. This will look something like: 37.4419,122.1419. This map reference is found within a web address that Google will provide. On the Google Map page, after displaying the map you want to use, click on the 'Link to this page' link.  Copy the content from the first box that appears and paste into Notepad or a similar text editor so that you can clearly see it. It should look something  like this:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113989162849003263558.0004496aaaa51e052b16d&ll=51.256443,0.550507
&spn=0.005895,0.009366&z=17&iwloc=0004496aae529cc4ca1d2

Look for the information highlighted highlighted above: ll=51.256443,0.550507

The map reference is the green part. Paste this into the Map reference box. Note: The example map reference centres on EIS, your school's map reference will generate different numbers.

Customise your map

You can customise your map by adding some basic Google features. These are:

  • Display map navigation and scale control
  • Display map type control - Map, satellite, etc
  • Display an information window

Tick to enable or un-tick to disable these Google features.

Entering content for the information window

You can enter contact details that will appear in the information window. This is entered as HTML code. This is a simple example:

<div style='font-size:0.75em;color:red;'>
<strong>Your parish name</strong><br />
Address<br />Address line 2
</div>

Note: If you enter any HTML code, you must use single quotes NOT double quotes.

Click Update settings to save your changes.

Displaying a Google Map on your Web page

You can display a Google Map on any of your Web Pages. This excludes any special feature pages such as: News, Gallery, Diary Dates, Useful Links, Message Centre, FAQ's and Blogs.

After you have entered the necessary information, edit the page you want to display your map on using the  Site pages section and add the following Tag in the position that you want to display the map:

Meta data

Enter Keywords and a Description of your site. This information is used by some search engines when indexing your pages.

Keywords

Type in words or phrases separated by commas. You should not have more than about 200 characters including commas. Using more characters than this results in most search engines ignoring any excess words.

Description

Type in a brief description of your site. This description should be no longer than 150 characters in length.

Click Update settings to save your changes.

Change your password

You can change your password in this section.

Passwords must be a minimum of 8 characters, start with a letter and include at least one number. You can create a stronger password by also including an underscore[_] or a hyphen [-]. An example of a strong password would be: t6rr9-f1rma. (Spells 'Terra-firma'!). Your password should be difficult for others to guess.