WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:06.339 Alright. So I'm gonna show you how to create a site today. This is different from a main website. 2 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:08.800 Since the main website is, 3 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.420 comes with every Simplero account, and it's a public facing website, so we're not gonna talk about that today. 4 00:00:15.165 --> 00:00:16.525 We're gonna talk about having, 5 00:00:17.085 --> 00:00:20.145 a site with a community, courses, etcetera, 6 00:00:20.605 --> 00:00:22.605 something that you're gonna be using this for, 7 00:00:23.165 --> 00:00:26.605 that they have to purchase for or sign up for to get access to. 8 00:00:26.605 --> 00:00:28.785 So that's more what sites are used for. 9 00:00:29.279 --> 00:00:31.679 You can also make a site a public facing website. 10 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:35.699 So you could have two public facing websites, for example. Some people do that to have 11 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.540 bilingual versions of their site or they've got two different markets. 12 00:00:40.879 --> 00:00:42.180 So that is possible. 13 00:00:42.875 --> 00:00:48.254 But this is the site's feature in addition to the main website, which already comes with your Simplero account. 14 00:00:48.635 --> 00:00:52.094 Okay. So if you go to content sites, you can create a new site here. 15 00:00:52.394 --> 00:00:56.074 Give it a name and choose, which features you want turned on. 16 00:00:56.074 --> 00:00:58.500 You can just enable them for whichever one you choose. 17 00:00:58.500 --> 00:01:01.000 You can make it a community site with a forum, etcetera. 18 00:01:01.700 --> 00:01:06.600 Course content will disable the forum. If you don't wanna use it, you just wanna use it for courses 19 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:12.295 or other content, and then you can make it public here, and we'll make it a public site for you if needed. 20 00:01:12.295 --> 00:01:16.235 But all of these options can be tweaked once you actually create the site. 21 00:01:17.175 --> 00:01:19.275 Then click create site whenever you're ready. 22 00:01:20.055 --> 00:01:23.575 I have already created one, so I'm gonna go in here, Christina's site. 23 00:01:23.575 --> 00:01:26.950 So I'm not gonna go into a lot of the details related to, 24 00:01:27.350 --> 00:01:30.890 the same things on that are on a main website, 25 00:01:31.350 --> 00:01:33.930 like launching your site, creating pages, etcetera. 26 00:01:34.630 --> 00:01:38.390 You'll be able to find that in the main website guides, which we've linked below. 27 00:01:38.390 --> 00:01:41.355 So I'm just gonna go over the things that are relevant to just, 28 00:01:42.135 --> 00:01:43.915 a site here, 29 00:01:44.215 --> 00:01:44.715 okay, 30 00:01:45.735 --> 00:01:47.755 that are in addition to your main website. 31 00:01:48.375 --> 00:01:48.695 So, 32 00:01:49.335 --> 00:01:53.835 pages are the same. The only thing is you can drip out a page as well. 33 00:01:53.895 --> 00:02:02.580 So if you're familiar with the term dripped, it essentially just means that they won't have access to this page, this dripped page, unless they 34 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:09.275 receive access to it through a product or a list or something like that. Right? So or manually. 35 00:02:09.815 --> 00:02:16.075 So what you can do when you need to drip out a page is you can select the page, click select action, and choose drip. 36 00:02:16.295 --> 00:02:17.995 This one is in drip mode. Right? 37 00:02:18.135 --> 00:02:22.760 Now let's say you wanna connect it to a product, head over to sales product, choose your product, 38 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:24.680 go to the content tab, 39 00:02:25.060 --> 00:02:26.040 and add a trigger. 40 00:02:26.740 --> 00:02:29.800 And you could say, you know, when the participant is activated, 41 00:02:30.340 --> 00:02:31.140 do what? 42 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:38.275 And that would be, give access to a page, and you'll see your dripped pages show up here as an option and create the trigger 43 00:02:38.655 --> 00:02:44.034 and save changes. So that's one use case for that if you want to have a dripped page. 44 00:02:44.655 --> 00:02:48.754 Courses are pretty straightforward. This is where you can add a course on this site, 45 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:54.000 and, then you can give access to the course via a product or a list, etcetera. 46 00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:58.400 You can have multiple courses. Just go ahead and create the course up here. 47 00:02:58.459 --> 00:03:00.319 I won't go into detail about that. 48 00:03:00.380 --> 00:03:09.954 We usually recommend as best practice to keep your course on a closed site instead of creating it and putting it on your public main website. 49 00:03:10.655 --> 00:03:15.474 Usually, the reason for that is just because on the main website, which is open to the public, 50 00:03:16.030 --> 00:03:21.250 if they purchase the course and go to the site, they won't see the link to the course until they log in. 51 00:03:21.870 --> 00:03:26.290 And then when they log in, they'll be able to see the link in their top navigation menu. 52 00:03:26.349 --> 00:03:30.345 But the system doesn't know whether to display it or not unless they log in. 53 00:03:30.505 --> 00:03:39.885 And sometimes it can be a bit of a weird user experience because they'll go to the public site looking for the course and not finding it without realizing they still have to log in. 54 00:03:40.025 --> 00:03:40.525 So, 55 00:03:41.065 --> 00:03:43.965 usually, we recommend keeping your course on a separate 56 00:03:44.540 --> 00:03:49.280 closed site and then granting access to that site from a product, for example. 57 00:03:50.140 --> 00:03:51.599 Okay. So the forum 58 00:03:51.900 --> 00:03:52.879 and the groups. 59 00:03:53.340 --> 00:04:02.235 The forum is essentially a site wide forum where they can you know, members and you can create posts and comment on each other's posts. 60 00:04:02.235 --> 00:04:04.415 Right? So the forum 61 00:04:04.795 --> 00:04:07.855 feature every site comes with a forum feature here 62 00:04:08.210 --> 00:04:13.430 that's available to anyone no matter how they came to the site, no matter what product they bought, etcetera. 63 00:04:14.290 --> 00:04:25.194 If there are certain levels of your product, for example, like you've got a VIP tier or a gold tier and a silver tier, Maybe you don't wanna have them all have access to the same forum. 64 00:04:25.574 --> 00:04:28.715 Right? So you could disable this forum in the settings. 65 00:04:29.335 --> 00:04:33.780 Save changes. So this is the main forum that everyone has access to if you don't wanna use it. 66 00:04:34.260 --> 00:04:36.280 And then instead, you could create groups. 67 00:04:36.420 --> 00:04:41.080 So each group that you create here, you can grant access to that group 68 00:04:41.700 --> 00:04:43.320 from a product or 69 00:04:43.860 --> 00:04:49.955 a list, right, or manually. But, essentially, groups are forums that are exclusive. 70 00:04:50.175 --> 00:04:51.634 So you get to control 71 00:04:52.175 --> 00:04:57.634 who has access to them when they come to the site. Do you want a certain product to get access or 72 00:04:58.014 --> 00:04:58.995 a certain cohort 73 00:04:59.510 --> 00:05:02.410 or a list, etcetera. Right? A membership level. 74 00:05:02.870 --> 00:05:05.270 So there is almost the exact same thing as a forum. 75 00:05:05.270 --> 00:05:08.570 It's just you control who has access to it inside the site. 76 00:05:09.190 --> 00:05:13.370 If anyone comments on your forums or your blog posts, those comments show up here. 77 00:05:15.095 --> 00:05:16.854 So, yeah, so you'll see those comments here. 78 00:05:16.854 --> 00:05:20.794 And if you need to moderate them, you'll also see see the option to moderate them here. 79 00:05:21.574 --> 00:05:25.095 Under the blog, you can add posts, create a blog. 80 00:05:25.095 --> 00:05:29.354 Again, this is a great way to, yeah, keep your members informed, inspire them, etcetera. 81 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.300 So you can add blog posts here, import them from another site. All of that happens here. 82 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.020 Again, this is a really high level overview. 83 00:05:37.400 --> 00:05:40.940 In the configure tab, you can choose what the home page will be. 84 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:45.340 So pages that you've created could be the home page or a course. 85 00:05:45.585 --> 00:05:50.305 Let's say you've got a site and you've got one course on that site and everyone is coming for that one course. 86 00:05:50.305 --> 00:05:52.565 Maybe you just want the home page to be that course. 87 00:05:53.104 --> 00:05:54.805 You can make the home page of the course. 88 00:05:55.185 --> 00:05:55.505 You can 89 00:05:56.305 --> 00:05:59.845 you one of our system generated pages as the home page. 90 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:01.380 So that's an option. 91 00:06:01.919 --> 00:06:06.900 The feed page is a system generated page that comes with our our new community experience. 92 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:13.620 And so what that is is, essentially, it will just display any courses at the top of the page 93 00:06:14.025 --> 00:06:16.685 that the person looking at the page has, 94 00:06:17.305 --> 00:06:18.685 started but didn't complete. 95 00:06:18.985 --> 00:06:23.645 So we'll say, like, finish where you finish what you started, and then we we show the link to the course. 96 00:06:24.745 --> 00:06:26.205 It also has most recent, 97 00:06:26.585 --> 00:06:28.445 forum posts on it, etcetera. 98 00:06:29.389 --> 00:06:34.050 So you can choose the home page. You can customize the URL, the Simplero URL. 99 00:06:34.110 --> 00:06:36.210 Every site comes with the Simplero URL. 100 00:06:36.510 --> 00:06:39.810 You can use a custom domain if you don't wanna use the Simplero URL. 101 00:06:40.590 --> 00:06:45.945 You can make the site public if you need to, if it's like a second public website that you need. 102 00:06:46.485 --> 00:06:50.025 Sometimes people do that for having bilingual versions of their sites, etcetera. 103 00:06:51.205 --> 00:06:57.945 If you keep this unchecked, it will be private, and they have to get access to it by purchasing something or signing up for something. 104 00:06:58.849 --> 00:07:04.449 You can have them join for free with the join page where we just ask for the name and email, and then boom, they get access to it. 105 00:07:04.449 --> 00:07:07.750 That way, it just makes it easy if you want it to be a free membership site. 106 00:07:08.610 --> 00:07:12.435 You can show a custom message when they're trying to access the site, but they're not logged in yet. 107 00:07:12.435 --> 00:07:14.295 So that will be on the login page. 108 00:07:15.555 --> 00:07:19.255 Right now it's hidden from users till you're ready to launch, showing a splash screen. 109 00:07:19.635 --> 00:07:25.095 Your card image, that's gonna be on the customer's account overview where they see the sites they have access to. 110 00:07:25.110 --> 00:07:29.849 We've got pixel recommendations for that. Same with the favicon. We've got pixel recommendations. 111 00:07:30.870 --> 00:07:39.210 For light and dark mode, that's more related to our style guides, and it's related to our new community experience where they can switch between light mode and dark mode in the header 112 00:07:39.555 --> 00:07:41.255 navigation menu of the sites. 113 00:07:41.875 --> 00:07:43.395 I'm not gonna go into detail on that. 114 00:07:43.395 --> 00:07:48.055 We've got guides that you can go through on how what what this means, but, essentially, 115 00:07:48.755 --> 00:07:49.735 you can choose, 116 00:07:50.675 --> 00:07:55.095 what the logo should be in light mode and what the logo should be in dark mode. 117 00:07:55.610 --> 00:07:58.350 So based on what this when the customer is looking at the logo, 118 00:07:59.370 --> 00:08:05.850 you'll want the light mode one to be a dark logo, and then you want the dark mode one to be light enough that it shows up on that dark background. 119 00:08:05.850 --> 00:08:06.350 Right? 120 00:08:08.185 --> 00:08:11.965 Feed page, again, you can add a description to the top if you're using that page. 121 00:08:13.225 --> 00:08:21.324 Community features, so if you're choosing to turn on our community features, these would all be turned on for you, and you can turn them off if needed. 122 00:08:22.540 --> 00:08:25.440 If you want them to be able to react, have a member directory, 123 00:08:26.220 --> 00:08:29.520 chat each other. So if you want your members to talk to each other in a chat, 124 00:08:30.140 --> 00:08:35.919 auto collapse, long comment threads, show engagement badges. I won't go into detail on that. But 125 00:08:36.304 --> 00:08:37.845 you if you grab them badges, 126 00:08:38.784 --> 00:08:45.524 based on certain actions that they take in the site to foster engagement, then they would it would show next to their name, 127 00:08:46.865 --> 00:08:48.084 in the member directory. 128 00:08:48.990 --> 00:08:56.290 Engagement points to and, oh, and it will also show when they are commenting and they put they put a comment on something like a forum or a course. 129 00:08:57.070 --> 00:09:01.090 Engagement points type, that's just you know, we have a way for you to gamify 130 00:09:02.115 --> 00:09:05.335 engagement in your membership site or your community, 131 00:09:06.035 --> 00:09:08.135 where we grant them points for, 132 00:09:08.995 --> 00:09:10.695 liking posts and comments. 133 00:09:11.075 --> 00:09:12.435 You don't have to use this. 134 00:09:12.915 --> 00:09:16.375 The points show up on their contact record from the back end, but, 135 00:09:17.090 --> 00:09:19.590 you could add a leaderboard to your 136 00:09:20.210 --> 00:09:22.070 top navigation menu on the site. 137 00:09:22.530 --> 00:09:23.830 And, the leaderboard 138 00:09:24.850 --> 00:09:27.430 I'll show you how to do that. But the leaderboard would display 139 00:09:28.050 --> 00:09:28.550 the, 140 00:09:29.330 --> 00:09:40.285 interactions and who is winning essentially each week, who's had the most engagement, and it kinda looks it it's a gamified way to look at it so that customers can go see, oh, do I have the most engagement or not? 141 00:09:40.745 --> 00:09:42.825 And you can, choose to award them. 142 00:09:42.825 --> 00:09:46.265 You could, you know, contact them and award them something based on how many points they got. 143 00:09:46.265 --> 00:09:48.080 So that's an option. 144 00:09:48.540 --> 00:09:51.920 Moderation notification email. If you need to moderate comments on something, 145 00:09:52.380 --> 00:09:54.640 you can choose the moderation email here. 146 00:09:55.980 --> 00:10:01.035 Notification settings. If you, wanna so when someone becomes a new member, they have 147 00:10:01.435 --> 00:10:05.935 notification settings that they can customize, but you get to decide what they get notifications 148 00:10:06.315 --> 00:10:09.535 on when they become a member, and then they can change that. 149 00:10:09.995 --> 00:10:12.014 This won't affect existing members. 150 00:10:12.634 --> 00:10:17.449 If you wanna add a sign up form to every page on your site, you can do that here. 151 00:10:18.310 --> 00:10:21.769 If you have social profiles like Facebook or Instagram 152 00:10:22.149 --> 00:10:24.250 or Twitter, Pinterest, etcetera, 153 00:10:25.110 --> 00:10:31.529 you can add those here, and we'll add them wherever you choose to put social profiles, like in your top navigation menu or your footer. 154 00:10:32.445 --> 00:10:36.065 Metadata, this is for SEO. You can give it a site title, an image. 155 00:10:36.205 --> 00:10:38.545 You can have Facebook crawl private pages. 156 00:10:39.805 --> 00:10:46.328 If you need to add triggers, we've got a whole bunch of actions they can do in the membership site that can then trigger another Calvin. 157 00:10:46.350 --> 00:10:49.089 So you get to decide if you need to use that for anything. 158 00:10:50.350 --> 00:10:55.550 And advanced settings, I'm not gonna go into detail just because they, there's a lot here. 159 00:10:55.550 --> 00:11:00.210 But you can come in here, and there's a lot in here that you can find if you are looking for something specific. 160 00:11:00.635 --> 00:11:01.915 Check the advanced settings. 161 00:11:02.235 --> 00:11:05.615 And if you have any questions about this, you can feel free to reach out to support. 162 00:11:06.715 --> 00:11:08.795 So the last few things I just wanna touch on. 163 00:11:08.795 --> 00:11:14.315 So style guide, again, when you create your site, it's gonna start with the default for sites style guide. 164 00:11:14.315 --> 00:11:15.855 You can switch that to 165 00:11:16.155 --> 00:11:19.750 a different type of style guide if you have created a different one. 166 00:11:20.130 --> 00:11:25.509 You can switch it to one you already have, and we'll update all the pages on your site with this style guide. 167 00:11:25.970 --> 00:11:28.389 The style guide is essentially the theme 168 00:11:29.055 --> 00:11:32.195 for that site or any pages that use this site. 169 00:11:32.815 --> 00:11:34.595 So that's what the style guide is for. 170 00:11:35.055 --> 00:11:38.835 Under the colors, you've also got the system colors, which would be, 171 00:11:39.455 --> 00:11:44.435 buttons and links that show up in light and dark mode on system generated pages 172 00:11:44.810 --> 00:11:48.570 like courses or the forum or the feed page, etcetera. Right? 173 00:11:48.570 --> 00:11:51.709 So you can customize what those colors will look like. 174 00:11:53.450 --> 00:11:56.649 So, yeah, so the style guide, we've got guides that will go into detail on that. 175 00:11:56.649 --> 00:11:58.190 So I'm not gonna touch that. 176 00:11:58.584 --> 00:12:00.425 Also got the engagement badges here. 177 00:12:00.425 --> 00:12:06.045 So if you need to edit those, you can create a new one using ours, or you can create your own. 178 00:12:08.185 --> 00:12:08.685 Redirects, 179 00:12:09.545 --> 00:12:10.685 that's pretty straightforward. 180 00:12:11.545 --> 00:12:14.060 If you want an existing page 181 00:12:15.079 --> 00:12:15.579 to, 182 00:12:15.959 --> 00:12:19.820 that doesn't have a really pretty URL, maybe you want to have a page 183 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.220 create a path on your 184 00:12:22.760 --> 00:12:23.579 site URL 185 00:12:23.880 --> 00:12:27.815 that would then redirect to the URL that's not really pretty. 186 00:12:29.795 --> 00:12:31.415 Again, it's basically redirecting 187 00:12:31.795 --> 00:12:33.415 from something that doesn't exist 188 00:12:34.435 --> 00:12:37.415 to like, you're choosing a path on a URL, 189 00:12:37.715 --> 00:12:39.360 and this path doesn't exist. 190 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.220 So it can't be you're not it's not a redirect from an existing page to another. 191 00:12:43.760 --> 00:12:47.620 It's just choosing a pretty prettier URL here 192 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.660 that can then redirect to an existing page 193 00:12:51.040 --> 00:12:54.435 with the URL you don't want people to use. That's all this is for. 194 00:12:54.595 --> 00:12:58.135 If you have questions on that, just reach out to support, and we'll we'll help you out. 195 00:12:58.915 --> 00:13:01.795 Last thing too for sites, this is the same with, 196 00:13:02.274 --> 00:13:02.774 anything, 197 00:13:03.154 --> 00:13:07.175 even on the main website. When you edit layout and navigation up here, you can edit. 198 00:13:07.520 --> 00:13:12.000 I won't go into detail, but you can edit the header and navigation, colors, and what's in it. 199 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.820 You can edit the footer colors and what's in that, 200 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:19.540 and you can add what shows up on top navigation menu here. 201 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.300 And don't forget to publish. 202 00:13:22.265 --> 00:13:29.565 Okay. And then the very last thing is there are very slight differences between closed site pages, 203 00:13:30.105 --> 00:13:33.325 website pages, and landing pages. Right? 204 00:13:33.865 --> 00:13:39.670 So the closed site pages, which is like if you're going to content sites and you have a closed site, 205 00:13:40.210 --> 00:13:48.390 we do offer some sections that are only available on a closed site, like the ability to display your courses and things like that 206 00:13:48.770 --> 00:13:51.350 versus a website, the main website. 207 00:13:52.785 --> 00:13:58.725 Those pages, you know, we're not allowing you to display your courses to look to go into them like a course catalog. 208 00:13:59.024 --> 00:14:02.785 You would want them to purchase the courses from your main site, your public site. Right? 209 00:14:02.785 --> 00:14:03.685 So it's different. 210 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:11.060 But the pages that you add to your main site versus your closed sites or your sites under content sites, 211 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.820 they all use the same two point o builder, 212 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.500 essentially. So the builder is is typically the same. 213 00:14:19.505 --> 00:14:25.365 And then the difference between landing pages and site pages and main website pages is that 214 00:14:25.665 --> 00:14:30.085 landing pages are not a site. Right? They're just a stand alone page. 215 00:14:30.705 --> 00:14:32.405 So when you have a landing page, 216 00:14:32.740 --> 00:14:34.420 that is not going to have, 217 00:14:35.780 --> 00:14:39.000 oh, yeah. I guess it's not here, but that is not going to, 218 00:14:39.460 --> 00:14:44.340 have a top navigation menu with lots of different pages on the site. It's not a site. 219 00:14:44.340 --> 00:14:45.880 It's just this one page, 220 00:14:47.220 --> 00:14:49.295 and you can create it, and then, 221 00:14:50.395 --> 00:14:53.214 it stands alone with the call to action on it that you can choose. 222 00:14:54.315 --> 00:14:57.675 Alright. So those are kinda that's super high level. I know. 223 00:14:57.675 --> 00:15:00.415 But go ahead and just jump in, create your site. 224 00:15:01.210 --> 00:15:02.590 Let us know if you have any questions. 225 00:15:02.650 --> 00:15:05.630 Go ahead and put in a ticket if you're running into any issues, 226 00:15:06.170 --> 00:15:09.290 or you have any questions, and we'll we'll keep supporting you. 227 00:15:09.290 --> 00:15:12.910 But, definitely jump in and try creating your first site. 228 00:15:13.290 --> 00:15:13.790 Alright.