Self-Paced Tutorials

The Extend Tutorials are self-paced tutorials designed to help you get started with Extend. 

In the Building Your Site Tutorials, you will step through creating different pages for your specific site.  You will fill in information having to do with your organization while learning some basics of the system.

  • Staff Listing Tutorial
    Create a Channel that has a listing of your Staff and their information.
  • Contact Us Tutorial
    Create forms that let visitors to the site request information from you or submit a prayer request.
  • Document Tutorial
    Create channels that contain links to documents such as bulletins, newsletters, or sermon notes.
  • Calendar Tutorial
    Create calendars of events to put throughout your site.

    In the General Extend Tutorial, you will learn how to: 
  • Create articles
  • Add images to articles
  • Create interactive forms
  • Create hyperlinks
  • Create channels
  • Add articles to channels
  • Change articles' display options
  • Move content
  • Add borders to channel pages

    The General Extend Tutorial should take approximately 1 to 2 hours to complete.   To begin the Extend tutorial:
  1. Download one of the Extend Tutorial PDF files and save it to your desktop. To download the file, right click on the link and select Save Target As…. 
  2. Download the tutorial images by clicking Download Tutorial Images. Save the file to your desktop. 
  3. Open the Extend_Tutorial_Images.exe file. Click Run to extract the files. This creates a folder on your desktop named Extend Tutorial Images. This folder contains the images that you use in the tutorial. 
  4. Open the PDF file and begin the tutorial.
ON-LINE TRAINING
Free Getting Started Courses
Getting Started In Extend Administration
Discover how to setup and administrate your Extend Website.  This online video covers a number of tasks to help you get started in Extend.
GOOGLE GADGETS & RSS
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