This Quick Start Guide will show you how to set up your PTO or PTA website in about 30 minutes. We have already populated your Digital PTO website with some basic content to get you started. Please follow this guide step by step and you will have your new PTO or PTA website up and running in no time.
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 3 Minutes Learning how to Access your new Website This quick tutorial will introduce you to the menu structure and navigation available to you as the site administrator. It will also teach you how to log back into your website once you have left the tutorials and sign up process. Open your Digital PTO Website in One Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Understanding the difference between Informational Pages and News Posts This tutorial is going to introduce you to the pages on your website that are across the top navigational bar. Before we do that though, we need to explain the difference between Info Pages and News Posts. Info Pages are pages on your website that Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5-10 Minutes Add Content to your PTO INFO Page The PTO Info Page is designed to be the Hub of information about your PTO/PTA Group. You can enter information about your groups mission, you can enter your Board Member Info, it's really up to you. Just think about what you would want to see as a Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Updating the Content on your "Volunteer!" Page At Digital PTO, we have found time and time again that the more information you can provide on your website, the better chances you have of volunteer participation. We have added a Volunteer page for you to outline all of the volunteer opportunities your group offers. Premium Members Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Adding Content to your Contact Us Page Your Contact Us page will be a very important page for your PTA / PTO. It is important to put the important contact information you have for your group at the top of this page. Try not to clutter this page with too much information. Make it Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Providing Opportunity & Reason to Join your PTO / PTA It is amazing how many parents will sign up and support a Parent Group as soon as they are asked a few times. Digital PTO was founded on the idea of allowing parents to register for the PTA online. We saw existing PTA's entering Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes What are Widgets and Sidebars? We will get into the details in a moment, but to sum it up real quickly, your Sidebar is where all the small pieces of content go (recent news headlines, links to other pages, newsletter sign up boxes, etc) that will show up on every page of your site. Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Customizing your Welcome Message & Image or Logo Digital PTO makes it easy to add a text welcome message as well as upload an image (or as many as you would like) to your Sidebar. You will want to change your Sidebar Welcome Message as well as upload a photo of your school or Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Adding & Removing Links to other Websites PTA's and PTO's typically have a lot of other groups that they work with (schools, districts, etc) as well as other information they might want to provide links to. Digital PTO makes it easy to collect and display links to your visitors. This tutorial will walk through Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5 Minutes Setting you your Contact Us form with the correct Information Your Digital PTO website comes with a basic "Contact Us" form built right on to the sidebar. It is a simple way for your visitors to contact the PTA/PTO with ease. You will need to have the email address we mentioned in the Contact Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 5-10 Minutes It's finally time to add a News Post to your site! Congratulations on making it this far in the Quick Start Guide! You're almost finished! It is now time to add your very first news post to your PTO / PTA Website! As we mentioned before, if you don't have actual content to add Read full article »
Estimated Time to Complete this Section: 1-2 Minutes Cleaning up your News Posts for your Community You are virtually finished with the basic set up for your PTO / PTA Website! Congrats! The last major thing you will need to do is hide the News Posts we added for you. You may want to access them again in the future (especially as Read full article »
If you have not yet registered your Parent Group with Digital PTO, please take a moment to complete that process. Registering your school will qualify you for entry into the drawings we hold for a Free Annual Premium Plan, so it's worth the few minutes to register. Registration with Digital PTO is also the foundation of our Digital PTO Giving Program Read full article »
Congratulations! You have completed the most basic elements required to get your website ready to announce to your community. If you are anything like us, you probably want to keep pushing forward, learning more, and creating more. Take a break for a while. You earned it. Even if only for a moment. Once you have given your eyes and mind a rest, Read full article »
Digital PTO offers a variety of ways to get assistance when you are stuck. All of our members (Free & Premium) have access to our User Forums and our Premium Members have access to direct email support. We also offer dozens of training guides and tutorials in our Training & Support Center. How to Access Help. The following are some of the Read full article »
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