Homepage Widgets

Calendar

The calendar widget can be used to display upcoming events from your calendar. You can set how many days it shows and can choose from two different layouts. You can either show the date as text or display a calendar icon for each day showing the date in a graphical way that looks like the pages of a desk calendar.

 

Daily Message

The Daily Message widget can be used to display your daily message as set up in Global Office. This can be either taken from Bible Gateway, a custom source or manually entered into Global Office.

 

Form

The form widget can be used to display forms that you have already set up in Global Office. When shown on the page the forms can be filled in and submitted by the user without them having to leave the homepage.

 

Internal Search

The internal Search widget allows a user to search your site using Church Edit’s built in search functionality.

 

Internet Search

The Internet Search widget allows you to add a web search box to your homepage. You can choose from three search providers: Bing, Google or Yahoo! Search results will be opened in a new window so the user does not navigate away from your site.

 

Latest Articles

The latest articles widget will show the latest pages that have been added to your site. You can choose how many articles to show, whether to show all pages or just those in a particular folder and whether to display subfolders. There are five different layouts for displaying the articles.

 

Latest Audio

The latest audio widget shows the latest audio file added to your site.

 

Latest Photos

The latest Photos widget shows the latest photos uploaded to the site. You can choose how many photos are displayed. By default the widget will display thumbnails of each image that a user can navigate through but if they click on a particular image then the mage will be shown in a full page viewing gallery over the site. When they have finished viewing the images in the full page gallery they can click the close button and return to the homepage.

 

Login/Member Welcome

If you are using Church Edit Pro you can provide your users with a login box / Member Welcome message by using the Login / Member Welcome widget. If you choose not to use a specific login widget then users may still login using a text link that appears at the top of pages without a login box.

 

Poll

The poll widget can be used to display questions and polls on your homepage. You can use preexisting polls set up in Global Office or you can create new ones from within the widget options page. You can choose to display the poll as a bar graph or a pie chart. When users vote in the poll they will remain on your homepage and they will only be able to vote once in a particular poll to avoid your results being artificially boosted.

 

Rotator

The Rotator widget allows you to display an automatically rotating image slideshow on your homepage. You can add as many images to the slideshow as you wish and each image can also have an associated caption and link to another part of your site. This means the rotator can also be used as a navigation or marketing device as well as just a slideshow.

 

RSS Reader

The RSS Reader allows you to display news feeds on your homepage. All you need to set it up is the web address for an external news feed like the BBC. You can choose how many articles to show for the feed.

 

Text

The text widget allows you to show the Content 1 and Content 2 text as defined in Global Office. It can also display external scripts if these are inserted into Content 1/2 like twitter feeds or facebook links.

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