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Club Website User Guide

Welcome to the resource centre for the RQ club websites. The website solution was created to offer a low cost and flexible website solution which will allow a QLD race club to have a great, and easy website to grow their business. 

If you are interested in using the RQ club website solution, or have any other questions, please reach out to us here. If you already have a club site using our old system, we will be changing them over to the new website shortly, and passing on the details to manage your new website moving forward. 

Our management system is simple and easy to use, and can be managed by yourself, or an external marketing company you engage. 

Below are some user guide videos to help you manage your club website and become familar with the Umbraco CMS system. Please click here to let us know if you have any other questions you have, so we can make these user guides better for the future. 

See some examples of the Club Website in action here: 

Goondiwindi Race Club

Cloncurry Race Club

Dawson Jockey Club

 

Send an enquiry

For any questions regarding Club Websites, please get in touch with us at marketing@racingqueensland.com.au  

A tour of the Club Websites

Our club websites are managed by CMS system Umbraco. It's simple to use, and creates a great mobile friendly website. 

When we set up a new Website, we will configure it with basic layout and information then hand the club edit access to make the site their own! 

Logging in and Editing

A guide to help you log in, and show the basics of the Umbraco layout including:

  • Logging in to the CMS system.
  • Structure of the Page Tree.
  • Navigating the summary, content and other page edit tabs including summary images. 
  • Saving changes and publishing pages including scheduled publishing.

Basics of Media library

  • Managing your media library
  • Creating new sponsors and new homepage banners
  • Uploading images
  • Managing file size when uploading images. For more information on optimizing your website's images, read this helpful blog by our web developers. 

Basics of Content Editing

The basics of editing pages and page content including:

  • Editing content within a page. 

See the "widgets" video for a run through of all widgets available to be added to a webpage. 

Adding widgets to a page

This shows you a run through of all widgets available to add to a page in the 'content' tab including:

  • Text widget (adding text, buttons, hyperlinks, single images)
  • Race information and Upcoming race meet widget.
  • Social media widget and image Gallery.
  • News and Events listings widget.

 

The Configuration Tab

The configuration tab is where you can edit your websites logo (home button), location and contact information, social media accounts, theme colours 

 

Theme colours are set using "Hex codes" which are unique codes given to a specific colour. You can find a colour's hex code here.  https://htmlcolorcodes.com/

Page order and the rollback function

  • Change the order of pages within menus
  • 'Rollback' to take a page back to an old saved version of the page.