Editing the About page

Clicking on the Edit button on the community's About/welcome page allows you to:

• Change the name of the community

Although you can do this, this should obviously be done with a very strong reason otherwise people could be confused. Using lower case for the title where appropriate is also a good idea.

• Change the Community Description field for the About/welcome page.

This is a ‘rich-text’ field so you can do formatting, add pictures, links, etc but it is recommended that you keep it reasonably short so that the What’s New section (which appears under the Description field on the About page) is visible without users having to scroll down.

• Change the colour of the banner for your community - it also makes the colour of your headings match the colour of the banner.
• Add a logo for your community.
• Set the Group Subscription-type for your community. The options are:
  • Open – any registered user of the site can go to your community, click on the 'Join' button and they are then automatically a member and can therefore create content, join discussions, etc
  • Closed – any registered user of the site can go to your community and request to join the community by clicking on the 'Join' button. When a request is made you will get an email notification. Follow the link in the email to accept or decline the request. Alternatively, you can go  Administer Group>Manage Users, then click on the name of an individual user to accept or decline the request.