When we start Arena at CCV, we see this screen.
This page like all the other Arena pages uses the main Arena Template. The template defines the banner, and includes the navigation module on the left and the HTML module on the bottom for the copyright message.
The content specific to this welcome page are the three HTML modules and the Subscribed Tags module.
The HTML modules, allow one of our admins to update content on this page to reflect what is relevant to our staff at different times. For example, one of the HTML modules keeps staff informed of new functionality, or reminds them about proper procedures. Another of the HTML content modules lists common links that our staff members use frequently.
When our admin needs to update content they click the pencil next to the content to switch to edit-mode, update the content, and then save their changes. The page is then updated to reflect their changes.
The HTML editor is a “…WYSIWYG rich-text editor that enables even non-technical users to author and manage HTML content…” (stole that from Telerik’s r.a.d. editor site which is the component that Arena uses for the HTML module).
The ability to edit content is controlled through security roles, so not everyone can update the HTML content.
The Subscribed Tags module lists tags that a user has subscribed to, essentially giving them a way to quickly jump to the areas they work with most often. (I’ll go more into tags later).
When Arena is released in January, I’m sure that the default HTML content on this page will look different, but what’s great is that a church can then easily change this content to reflect what’s important to them.
