The Member Wizard Website template
What is the Member Wizard website template?
Member Wizard can provide your organisation with a fully configurable website which already incorporates all the links for classes and membership buttons integrating to your Member Wizard database.
The website comes as a standard template which can be altered to suit your requirements and which can be configured to be unique to your organisation.
The sample template is shown at the bottom of this article. You can also explore the Sample Organisation Web Template on the Member wizard home page by clicking the Website Test Drive button as shown below now.
This Website Test Drive button will take you to the Sample Organisation Web Template where how to work with the three main elements - pages, sections and panels that enable you to build your web page is explained. If your organisation decides to have their own website template, Member Wizard provides three free Zoom sessions to teach and assist you to manage your web site.
Note: Member Wizard's web template is not Word Press or based on any existing system. It is designed specifically to be simple and easy to learn and use by members not necessarily familiar with HTML or CSS. As such it does not have elements that are by their nature complex. We believe however that your creativity can more than compensate for that and you can quickly and easily develop a good looking and functional website.
What if we want to use our own website design template?
That's fine. You can add, delete or move pages, areas on pages, images, downloads and text to make the template look exactly the way your organisation prefers.
The best thing is that anyone with knowledge of Word can do it. You no longer have to find someone prepared to volunteer web programming skills in order to have an easily managed, flexible and good looking website.
What do we need to do to get our website up and running?
Simply click on the Website menu button in Member Wizard admin page (left hand menu). Member Wizard will then send you a temporary URL which will contain your template.
Once you have the temporary URL go back to the Member Wizard admin page (left hand menu) under User Management, click Role, then Add Role. In this menu add a Role Name such as for example Web Administrator, and set Website to Full Access (last entry). Save this.
Now go to User Management, and click Users and then Add User. Insert your User Name (no spaces), Role (e.g. Web Administrator) and Email address. Save this.
You can now go back to your website template via the Website menu button (left hand side) in the Member Wizard admin portal.
Click on the Admin button in the template (top right hand side). For some templates (especially Victorian templates) this may allow you to access an additional drop down menu item Web login. Enter your Member Wizard user name and password. You can now edit and make changes to website.
Remember to always return to this Admin page and click Copy Edit Version to Live to save your changes.
When your Website is finished to your liking, contact us and we will commence making the website visible under your organisations preferred URL.
There are a few ways to achieve this depending on your current domain name situation:
1. If your organisation does not use your domain name for emails (eg you use gmail or some other mail service) and you do not have a .org.au web domain then Member Wizard will transfer the entire domain to our domain manager Amazon. This is the easiest solution.
2. If your organisation uses your domain to also send emails eg you have an email address of say presidentU3Ax@u3ax.org.au then we cannot move the domain as our service does not include email. In this case we will need to talk to your current website manager and arrange for them to make some A Record entries in the DNS. If they are not able to do this we will require the login to your domain provider to do this for you.
An alternatively, is to get your website manager to forward the domain you use for emails to a new domain Member Wizard obtains for you such as U3ASample.au. You can then continue to use your previous domain for emails and your members browser bookmarks will redirect automatically to the new domain.
3. If you have a .org.au domain eg U3ASample.org.au then we cannot transfer the domain as our provider does not handle .org.au domains your situation is as per 2 above. We can redirect your current domain to a new URL such as U3ASample.au so your member's bookmarks still continue to operate as usual.
How much does the Member Wizard website cost?
There is a one off setup cost of $450 plus GST which includes your first year hosting and domain name registration (if required). Thereafter the cost is only $150 pa plus GST.
The Member Wizard standard web template
For more information view the Demo Website link on the Member Wizard Home page and download the Working with the Member Wizard Template - a Handbook