This feature has been long-awaited by many of you, and has been one of our most oft-requested features. The Studio Website you get with Music Teacher’s Helper used to have fixed pages, meaning you couldn’t change what showed in the menu, or add additional pages to your site. This was somewhat inhibiting if teachers wanted to put more on their website than their teaching policy and a little about their studio, because they had to either cram it all into either of those two pages, or not include it at all.
Well, now you can add your own pages to your studio website! You can have as many pages as you like and can even disable the system pages such as the photo gallery, student registration page, contact page, login page, and resources page if you decide not to use some of those options. You can also rename the menu items to whatever you want, and change their order in the menu. Some ideas for pages you can create are:
- A page describing your rates and fee structure
- If you perform, a page advertising your services or describing what you do
- A showcase page where you highlight a particular student or composer - you can change it as frequently as you want
- A testimonials page with quotes from your students about your teaching ability
- Embed a YouTube video of a famous performance
- The possibilities are limited only by your imagination
Keep in mind that although you can have dozens of pages, statistics show that seven or fewer main menu items is ideal for usability (it also looks cleaner).
To create a new page on your studio website, or to view your current pages, click Home -> My Studio Website -> Website Pages. This will show a list of the pages on your website, which you can then edit, or remove (either by deleting or disabling the page). Notice that if you are a current user, the Home page, and your Teaching Policy pages will be in this list and are now completely under your control.
Updating your website content has always been easy. It’s as simple as using a word processor. But we have made some slight improvements to the website editor. It is now faster and easier to change colors, add images, and you can also create tables of data if you want to display things in even rows and columns.
We hope you enjoy this new improvement to your studio website. We have more exciting improvements coming soon as well, including some new designs to choose from. Thank you for supporting Music Teacher’s Helper!
by john hin — Mon Mar 17, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
by Gerry Teichrob — Mon Mar 17, 2008 @ 11:15 pm