Editing web pages

Tools Overview

Once you create a webpage (See How to add web pages) in Wild Apricot you can always go back and easily edit it. Below is a map of all the main tools you have access to, but keep reading to learn more about each individual tool and how it works.

For more information on working with tables, see Inserting and editing tables

Page layouts
See also

Overview

Wild Apricot has two types of pages: 'content' pages (the main topic of this article) and 'functional' pages - things like Member application form, event registration form, member directory etc. Functional pages can be moved around and renamed - but can not be deleted. Their content can not be edited but generally controlled through various settings. For example, your online member application form is generated automatically based on how you setup your member database (See Customizing your member database).

To start editing a page, login into your Wild Apricot account, go to Web Pages section and click on the page in the left-side menu; then click on [Edit] button in the toolbar:

The page will switch into 'Edit' mode:

Toolbar will be updated with the editing buttons
Page name in the menu will become editable
You cursor will be placed into the page main content area and you can start typing text, editing, formatting

Now let's review main editing functions one by one:

Undo/Redo, Cut/Copy/Paste

These are typical functions for any editor so we will not spend time explaining them:

Text formatting buttons

Very common functions like Bold, Italic and Underline - and if you press on the down arrow you will see three additional ones: Strikethrough, Superscript and Subscript:
The next group of text formatting buttons expands when you click on each button:

These give you selections for:

Font type:	Font size:

Text color:	Text highlight (background color):

Then we have text alignment button:
Left/Center/Right/Justified

Text styles

One other - very important button - allows you to select text styles:

Of course, with the formatting options discussed above you can make your text look any way you want - as nice or as funky as desired

However, to look clean, polished and professional it is recommended to use as few text embellishments as possible - and use text styles instead. Text styles provide a basic set of uniform text styles with colors matching your selected Visual look and feel. With styles you will not end up with purple headings on one page and red ones on another. You can change these standard styles via CSS Customization and point and click Customization*