Website / CMS

The Website / CMSThe area of the admin where you build and design your public site: your homepage, custom pages, menus, content blocks, files, and themes. It is grouped in the admin under Website / CMS. "CMS" (content management system) is another name you will see used for the same area. area is where you build and design what visitors see: your homepage, your own content pages, the menus that link everything together, the files you upload, and the themes that set how your site looks.

Site-wide or per-event

Almost everything here can be set in two places, and the difference matters:

• Site-wide settings apply to your whole site, across every event and before any event. Your homepage, site menus, footer, files, and themes live here.
• Per-event settings belong to a single eventA single ticketed offering that people register for: one camp, one party, one conference, or one run of a show. Your site usually runs many events, and each is normally used once and then archived rather than reused (an annual festival creates a new event each year). Each event has its own page on your site, for example example.com/summercamp. When your site has only one active event, EventDrake automatically presents it as the site's main page and keeps the multi-event navigation out of the way. and apply only within it. An event can have its own pages, its own FAQ, and its own navigation.

Where an event does not set something of its own, it falls back to the site-wide version. You will see this pattern throughout: set it once for the site, then override it for an event only where you need to.

Some areas are always site-wide

A few areas always use your site-wide look, even while a single event is active: the sign-in pages and My Account follow your site theme, not an event’s. The admin and operations interfaces cannot be themed or customised at all.

What you can set up

Website / CMS

The Website / CMS area, reached from the admin menu.

• Homepage decides what visitors see when they arrive at your site.
• Custom pages are content pages you write, such as an About or venue page.
• Content blocks add your content into fixed spots on EventDrake’s built-in pages.
• Navigation and menus set the links in your header, footer, and elsewhere.
• FAQ manages an event’s frequently asked questions.
• Files is where you upload and organise images and documents.
• Image assets lists the logos, banners, and record images your site uses and how to prepare them.
• Themes control your site’s colours, fonts, and overall look.

Just need registration?

If you only want people to register for a single event, you may not need to set up anything here at all. See Homepage for how a site with one event sends visitors straight to registration.