Adding Links to your site using the Link Box Builder

Start by logging in to your Online Agency account:
Figure 1: Go to http://login.onlineagency.com
Enter the email address and the password you chose during registration and click "login"

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Figure 2: Now that you're logged into your account, you'll be on your "Dashboard", which is your main Online Agency account page.

The demonstration site used in this example is for a company called "Travel Unlimited". As you follow along in your account, your company name will appear wherever the example site shows "Travel Unlimited".

Click on the "Pages of Content" link to go to your Editable version of your Home Page.

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Figure 3: Here on the editable version of your Home Page, you'll see several yellow buttons that say "Links".

Click on the link box yellow button that you'd like to edit. From here you can add links using the Link Box Builder. To access the Link Box Builder on pages other than your Home Page, simply use the Sitemap on the far right side of your page to navigate to the page that you'd like to add links to and follow the same steps listed above.

NOTE: If you're editing an existing links box, you'll be starting with the page of the editor described on page 5 of this document.

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Figure 4: Start by naming your link box by entering a link box title in the text field at the top of your page. You could call your Box: Helpful Links, Featured Destinations, or Our Specialties. Make sure you choose a name that will describe the collection of links that you're going to add.

Make sure you're using the Basic version of the Links Builder by leaving the "Basic Version" radio button selected. (When you're more comfortable with this process, you can try out the advanced version.) Once you've entered your Link Box name, click the "next" button.

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Figure 5: Next you will create your 1st link. You'll notice a sample of your link box (in the top right corner of the page) that shows you how each of the fields will look on your site.

NOTE: There is an image that shows you each of these fields on page 3.

o Enter your link title (i.e. Alaska)

o Enter your link description (i.e. Take a Cruise)

o Select an image by using one of the options below:

§ No image (Your link will not have an image associated with it.)

§ Select one of your images (Pick from one of the images that you uploaded to the site using the Image section. Image upload is accessible from the top navigation bar by clicking on Site, then Images, then Upload.)

§ Select one of the images you decided to include from the Online Agency Image Library (Accessible from the top navigation bar by clicking on Site, then Images, then Library.)

§ Enter a maximum size for your image. The default size for your image is 100 pixels. To make your image smaller, reduce the width from the default of 100.

§ Enter an ALT tag that describes your image. Alt tags have traditionally been used to provide a description of images to browsers that have images turned off and for audio browsers for the blind community. As Search Engines can't see images either, they use alt tags to determine what content is being provided by your image.

§ Enter an Image Byline if you're using one of your images and you need to give photo credit.

o Select a URL where your link should go by using one of the options below:

§ None (Your link will not go anywhere.)

§ One of your pages (Select from one of your Online Agency pages.)

§ OLA Content (Browse for an appropriate page. For instance, if you want to highlight Mexico, enter Mexico into the text entry box and click the search button. This will return all OLA pages that are related to Mexico. Then select the page you'd like to link to.)

§ External URL (First select whether the page your linking to is an http:// or https:// page or select to make your link a mailto/email link. Then enter the path i.e. www.url.com.)

o Define how you want your link to behave by specifying if it should open in a 2nd browser window. We recommend that links to External URLs should open in a 2nd window. Links within your site should not open in a second window.

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Figure 6: When you're done entering the information about your link described above, you have 2 options.

o Create another link: Select the add another link to my box radio button and click the next button.

§ If you select this option, create as many links as you'd like and when you're done, select the put my links in order radio button and click the next button to continue with ordering your links.

o Place your links in order: Select the put my links in order radio button and click the next button.

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For this example, we're going to select Create another link and click the next button. Go ahead and repeat the same process you used above and create a few more links. For today's example, we're going to create 2 more links for the Caribbean and Europe.

When this is complete change the radio button to Place your links in order and click the next button.

Figure 7: From the Ordering Links page, you can do the following:

• Delete links: To delete, select the links you want to remove and click the delete button.
• Rank links: To order your links, rank them and click the update button.
• Edit links: If you want to change the information on any of your links, simply make your changes here. If you need to change the image or the URL, click the Edit image or URL link.
• Add links: Use the Extras Toolbar at the top of the page and click the add button.
• Add subheaders or dividers: Use the Extras Toolbar at the top of the page and click the add button. (Both subheaders and dividers can be used to create sections within your box. Subheaders are colored bars that will appear within your box that can contain a text subhead. Dividers are colored lines--without text--that appear within your box.)

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Figure 8: For this example, we would like to add a subhead and a divider to our link box. Enter 1 into the Subheads field and 2 into the Dividers field and click the add button. If we wanted to add additional links to our box, we would use the add links field and follow the same process.

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Figure 9: Now can see that we have added our Subhead and our Dividers into our link box as they appear in our table.

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Figure 10: In order to place them in order (rank) we will determine the order by entering the rank (from 1-6) into the rank field and click the rank button. After we're done with our ranking (and any other editing that we might want to do), make sure the define the style of my box is selected and click the next button.

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Figure 11: From the Style page, you can set the following:

• Borders: Include a border around your box.
• Bullets: Show bullets next to your links.
• Justification: Define the text justification for your box (left, right or center).

We’re not going to include borders, but will we include bullets and will justify our text to the left. When you're done on the style page, select the finish button to complete your box.

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Figure 12: This will take you back to the editable version of your page and you can see your finished box. To make any changes, simply select the yellow link box button and you will be taken to the Ordering Links page where you can make any changes.

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Free Support

We hope this Getting Started Guide has been helpful to you. In order to make sure that you're getting the most out of your account, we provide FREE support.

If you ever need to ask our Support Team a question here's how you can reach us:

The fastest and best way to reach us is through the online Support Desk. Once you have logged into your account at http://login.onlineagency.com you'll find a link on the right side of your Dashboard to "Submit a Support Request."

Or you can always reach us by phone at (512) 401-9200 or you can email support@onlineagency.com. All requests for support that we receive via the phone or via email will be entered into a Support Request and will be answered in the order they are received, so it's always fastest to enter a Support Request using the online form.

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