Design Manager Help


The Design Manager is a tool in the Host Control Panel that allows Web Baby Shower hosts to choose design themes, clipart and control other design elements of their Web Baby Shower. This help page is meant to help Web Baby Shower hosts to use the Design Manager in the Host Control Panel.

The Design Manager allows you to accomplish the following tasks:



Choose A New Design Theme

To select a new design theme, at any point during your Web Baby Shower, please follow these steps:

  1. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  2. Log into your Host Control Panel
  3. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  4. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Choose a new design"
  5. Click "Go!"
  6. The next page will have a form where you can search for a design theme; you can search by theme name, color scheme, keywords or use some "Web Baby Shower Suggestions" to find a theme that you like. You can preview the currently available Web Baby Shower design themes on the Web Baby Shower Themes help page.
  7. Once you have entered your desired search parameters, click "Search"
  8. The next page will show screen shots of the design themes that matched your search parameters.
    • To choose a theme, simply click on the screen shot or the theme name
    • You can also search again by using the search form below the theme screen shots until you have found a theme that you like

When you choose a new theme, the default clipart for that theme will be used on your Web Baby Shower, even if you have previously chosen a different piece of clipart. You can choose to pick a special version of the clipart that describes your situation (It's a boy, girl, twins, etc) or to display a photo or even a video. See Choose Clipart, Photo or Video for your Web Baby Shower home page below.



Return to default Web Baby Shower Design Theme

  1. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  2. Log into your Host Control Panel
  3. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  4. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Return to default Web Baby Shower Design"
  5. Click "Go!"
  6. A "Design Successfully Updated" message will appear on your screen.

The current default Web Baby Shower design theme is:

Stars & Moons - multi-colored
Stars & Moons
Color Scheme: multi-colored

To see additional themes available, please see Web Baby Shower Themes





Change the introductory paragraph on your Web Baby Shower home page

You can choose what type of content you would like to appear on your Web Baby Shower home page: an introductory paragraph you write yourself, a specific Journal entry, the most recent Journal entry, or the most recent Guest Book entry.

  1. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  2. Log into your Host Control Panel
  3. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  4. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Change the introductory paragraph on your Web Baby Shower home page"
  5. Click "Go!"
  6. On the next page you will be able to choose one of the following options for your home page:
    • An introductory paragraph you want to write yourself: allows you to write your own introduction for your Web Baby Shower home page. You may enter an unlimited amount of text to introduce the expecting/adopting parents, the host(s), the concept of an online baby shower, or anything else you need to put on your home page. Please note that HTML is not allowed on the home page.
    • A Specific Journal Entry: allows you to choose a specific entry from your Web Baby Shower Journal, which will not change even if you make additional journal entries
    • The Most Recent Journal Entry: allows you to display the most recent entry to your Web Baby Shower Journal and will update automatically each time you make a new Journal entry
    • The Most Recent Guest Book Message: allows you to display the most recent entry to your Web Baby Shower Guest Book and will update automatically as new messages are added to the Guest Book
  7. Click the radio button next to the option you like best and then click "Continue". You may also click "Cancel" to return to the Design Manager main menu
  8. Please read and follow the instructions that the Home Page Manager gives you from this point, keeping these special notes in mind:
    • If you are writing a customized introductory paragrah, remember to submit your introduction within 10 minutes so that it does not get lost in any session time out.
    • This feature is controlled in conjunction with the Home Page Manager (see Help), so you will end up at the Home Page Manager when you are done. You will need to return to the Host Control Panel main page to return to the Design Manager.




Choose A Baby Shower Slogan For Your Home Page Clipart

Each Web Baby Shower clipart comes with several baby shower related slogans to suit your situation. You can choose to leave the clipart without a slogan or choose a slogan that suits the shower.

  1. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  2. Log into your Host Control Panel
  3. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  4. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Choose Clipart, Photo or Video for your Web Baby Shower home page"
  5. Click "Go!"
  6. Under "What type of media would you like to display on your home page?" choose "Web Baby Shower Clipart"
  7. Click "Continue"
  8. The next page will show a preview of your current clipart selection
  9. Scroll below the clipart preview and choose one of the following:
    • Use the "blank" version of this clipart (with no slogan written on it)
    • Or choose one of the following slogans. The same clipart will be used but it will have one of the following slogans on it:
      • "It's A Boy"
      • "It's A Girl"
      • "It's Twins"
      • "It's Triplets"
      • "It's Quadruplets"
      • "It's A Baby Shower"
      • "It's A Surprise"
      • "New Baby"
    • Choose A Completely NEW Clipart: this option will allow you to select a different clipart for your Web Baby Shower home page. Please see below for complete instructions.
  10. Make your selection and click "Continue"
  11. If you chose to use the same clipart with a slogan or no slogan, you are done. If you choose to use a completely new clipart, please see the instructions below for further information.

This feature is controlled in conjunction with the Home Page Manager (see Help), so you will end up at the Home Page Manager when you are done. You will need to return to the Host Control Panel main page to return to the Design Manager.





Choose New Clipart for your Web Baby Shower Home Page

This option will allow you to choose a different piece of clipart with the same or different baby shower-related slogan for your Web Baby Shower home page. You do not have to use the default clipart that comes with your chosen Web Baby Shower theme; you can keep the theme and choose a different clipart.

  1. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  2. Log into your Host Control Panel
  3. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  4. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Choose Clipart, Photo or Video for your Web Baby Shower home page"
  5. Click "Go!"
  6. Under "What type of media would you like to display on your home page?" choose "Web Baby Shower Clipart"
  7. Click "Continue"
  8. The next page will show a preview of your current clipart selection
  9. Scroll below the clipart preview and choose "Choose A Completely NEW Clipart." This option will allow you to select a different clipart for your Web Baby Shower home page.
  10. Click "Continue"
  11. On the next page, use the search form to narrow your clipart choices. You can search by the clipart title (design theme), color scheme, or by keywords. If you are looking for clipart for twins or multiples that specifically displays more than one baby, use the keywords "twins," "triplets," or "quadruplets" to find clipart that shows two, three or four babies (or baby animals).
  12. Once you have made your search selections, click the "Search" button
  13. If your search parameters match any available clipart, a thumbnail of the matching clipart will appear on the next page.
  14. Simply click on the clipart you wish to use
  15. If you do not like the selections or if there were no matches, you can search again using the search form below the thumbnails
  16. Once you have clicked on a clipart you wish to use, you will be taken to a page with a full-size preview of the clipart and another form. On this form, you can select to use the clipart without a slogan, choose a slogan (see above), or start a new clipart search.
  17. Make your selection and click "Continue"
  18. If you chose to use the same clipart with a slogan or no slogan, you are done. If you choose to use a completely new clipart, please see the instructions below for further information.

This feature is controlled in conjunction with the Home Page Manager (see Help), so you will end up at the Home Page Manager when you are done. You will need to return to the Host Control Panel main page to return to the Design Manager.





Choose a Photo for your Web Baby Shower home page

You can pick any of the photos in your Web Baby Shower Photo Album to display on your Web Baby Shower home page, regardless of what order it appears in your Photo Album.

  1. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  2. Log into your Host Control Panel
  3. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  4. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Choose Clipart, Photo or Video for your Web Baby Shower home page"
  5. Click "Go!"
  6. Under "What type of media would you like to display on your home page?" choose "A Photo from your Photo Album"
  7. Click "Continue"
  8. From here, follow the instructions to either upload a new photo for your Web Baby Shower home page or you can choose a photo that is already in your Web Baby Shower photo album. You can choose any photo from your photo album to appear on your home page, regardless of what order it appears in your photo album.

This feature is controlled in conjunction with the Home Page Manager (see Help), so you will end up at the Home Page Manager when you are done. You will need to return to the Host Control Panel main page to return to the Design Manager.





Choose a Video for your Web Baby Shower home page

If you have added any embedded videos from a video sharing website to your Web Baby Shower, you can choose to display one of them on your Web Baby Shower home page.

  1. First, make sure that you have already added video(s) to your Web Baby Shower using the Video Manager
  2. Go to your Web Baby Shower home page
  3. Log into your Host Control Panel
  4. Click "Choose A Design" (spiral icon)
  5. Under "What would you like to do?" choose "Choose Clipart, Photo or Video for your Web Baby Shower home page"
  6. Click "Go!"
  7. Under "What type of media would you like to display on your home page?" choose "A Video from your Videos Page"
  8. Click "Continue"
  9. Follow the instructions for choosing / confirming which video you would like to display on your Web Baby Shower home page.

Notes:

  • Due to the nature of video hosting and the size of video media, it will take longer for your home page to load with a video on it. If many of your guests are not on broadband Internet service (cable modem, DSL), you may want to display only a photo or clipart on your Web Baby Shower home page.
  • This feature is controlled in conjunction with the Home Page Manager (see Help), so you will end up at the Home Page Manager when you are done. You will need to return to the Host Control Panel main page to return to the Design Manager.




Add, Change or Remove A Baby Ticker for your Web Baby Shower home page

You can add, update or remove a pregnancy or adoption countdown ticker from many popular ticker websites to your Web Baby Shower home page. While you can access this feature through the Design Manager, it is controlled in conjunction with the Ticker Manager. For complete Baby Ticker information, please see the Baby Tickers Help page.





Updated December 8, 2009






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