Friday, October 9, 2009

How to assign a call to action (standard CMS only)

The standard cms has a Calls to Actions section (The Lite CMS does not have this feature...), which was specifically created to link various on page elements, like images, or links that are in the footer for example, to one of your created pages.

For example, on your website, you have a big red button that says something "Current Specials" - now, to allow you the freedom to decide what is on your current specials page, you have the ability to create the page as you would normally create a page with the cms, and make sure to specify that the page is NOT in the menu (so it is then hidden), and then, with the Calls to Actions feature you can link your Current Specials button to that hidden page you created.

Now, Calls to Actions on the cms is a unique thing for each individual cms, so some cms's does not have calls to actions, and some can have several...

Anyway, to link a call to action summary:

  1. Create a new page that will have the content of the "call to action".
  2. Be sure to specify that this new page is NOT in the menu (otherwise it will appear in the menu, if you, however, would like it to be in the menu as well, feel free to do so).
  3. In the menu, click the Calls to Action link, which will bring you to the screen where you can choose which page to assign to which call to action.
  4. Be sure to click the save calls to action button.
Thats basically it. The big red button, or whatever your calls to actions are, will now be linked to the page you assigned to it.

Another thing you can do, you can, when you create the page, have it link to an outside website, and if you assign it to the call to action, it will then link to that specific website address! Handy if you have a big button that you want to link to you blog, for example!