When you add a Personal Page Manager part to a page on your website, personal page owners can create and manage pages. The Home page dashboard provides a central location for personal page owners to manage their pages.
The action bar on the Home page dashboard allows page owners to navigate between tasks, monitor and update data, edit personal pages, send email, and maintain email contacts.
| • | My Home — To manage their pages, personal page owners click My Home. From the My Home page, page owners can click links to design and visit their web pages or to send email. This page also displays statistics about the number of visits a personal page receives, the date of the last visit, the number of email messages a page owner sends, and the number of messages that are opened. |
| • | My Activity — To view statistics about email messages, personal page owners click My Activity. To view a list of sent email messages, page owners select “Emails” on the action bar of the My Activity page. For each message, details appear about the number of times it was sent, the recipients, and whether it was opened or forwarded. Page owners can sort email messages according to whether they were opened, unopened, forwarded, or delivered unsuccessfully. To view a list of contacts who received email messages, page owners select “People” on the action bar. For each contact, details appear about how many messages were received and whether they opened or forwarded the messages. Page owners can sort contacts according to whether they have opened or forwarded messages. From the My Activity page, page owners can also click View Email to read the original email messages. |
| • | My Page(s) — To preview their pages and change the layout and content, personal page owners click My Page(s). Page owners can select create page templates, create friendly URLs, add pictures, edit text, or adjust settings such as whether to display navigation buttons with a slideshow. If the Personal Page Manager part allows page owners to create multiple personal pages, they can create additional pages from the My Page(s) page. When a page owner has multiple pages, one must be designated as the home page for search results and link to the owner’s personal page. If the Personal Page Manager uses a page with Page Links, the personal page owner must make his pages public for them to appear as links. |
| • | Send Email — To generate email messages, personal page owners click Send Email. Page owners can select contacts from the address book or create contacts to add to the address book. After page owners select the contacts, a preview screen displays the names, email addresses, and greetings that will be used. From this screen, page owners can change greetings or click contact names or email addresses to change contact information. Personal page owners select email templates and create the content on the Send Email page. |
| • | Address Book — To store email addresses and contact information, personal page owners click Address Book. To add contacts, page owners click New Contact. To use a *.csv file to import email addresses from programs such as Outlook or Eudora, page owners click Import Contacts. When page owners add contacts on the Send Email page, they are saved to the address book. The address book displays up to 10 contacts per page, and the number of contacts and number of pages appear below the grid. The action bar above the grid controls how contacts appear. To display all contacts, click ALL. If there are more than 10 contacts, page owners can use the links below the grid to navigate to additional pages. To view contacts in alphabetic groups, page owners can click the letters on the action bar. Contacts are organized by last name and organization name, which means contacts can appear twice and page owners can search by last name or the organization name. To select a contact, select the checkbox beside the name. To select all contacts on a page, select the checkbox beside the Name column. To select all contacts in the address book, select the checkbox beside the Name column and click the link that appears above the grid. To delete a contact, select it and click Delete on the action bar. |