introduction to eHome eHome is the fully configurable event website that allows your event to be professionally displayed, marketed and promoted. Whether you use a graphic designer and you need a specific website design and want to have total control over the look and feel, or you just want to point and click your way to a professional website, eHome supports every type of user. Product Features

• Point-and-click configuration of event webpages; no knowledge of HTML required • Access to cascading style sheets (CSS) so you can create the event website to the exact specifications

of your designer • Create as many pages as you want and create the navigation menu you need with multiple levels of

navigation and your choice of either landscape or horizontal navigation • Display your own HTML content using an easy editor, or dynamically display schedules/agendas, floor

plans and more stored in other modules of etouches • Supports Javascript widgets to allow for embedding of YouTube video, RSS and Twitter feeds and

other widgets that can be embedded into the HTML page • Add password-protection with point-and-click configuration to protect conference proceedings, meeting

minutes and more • Supports multilingual content

eHome walkthrough

my website In the My Website tab you will have the ability to adjust the look and content of your eHome site.

my website • website editor

The Website Editor page displays your current eHome page. By default, etouches creates a Summary page for you. You will make any changes or add information to your web page. Before you add/edit any details in your eHome page, it will look similar to the screen shot below:

Selecting different pages: To move between different pages in eHome you can click on the item in the menu bar or select the page from the dropdown. It is best to use the dropdown to navigate your pages because it will contain the pages you choose to not display in the navigation bar.

Parent Page: Selecting a page from this dropdown creates this new page as a child of the one chosen parent page.

Here you will select how you would like this page to be layed out. You have the option to add a header, footer, right side bar, or left side bar in addition to your main body section.

This section lets you some extra information to your page like title and metadata. You can also specify HTML content to appear at the top of the page instead of your standard logo. Page Access: This lets you prevent people from accessing this page without login credentials.

When editing a page you will be given the same field selections to edit as you did when you add a new page. (Shown Above).

Selecting Delete page will delete the current page you are on. The system will prompt you to verify if you would like to delete this page. There is no way to recover the page once it has been deleted.

When selecting to reorder tabs a popup will allow you to drag and drop the pages in the updated order you would like them to appear in the top navigation.

You can add 13 different types of content to a page in eHome. Just click the Add Content button (pictured to the right) on the page you would like the data to be added to. You can then give the content a name and choose to display that name as a title for the section.

Event details: General Settings: The Name field will be the name of this content and it will not be displayed by default. You can choose whether you want to display this name on the page. Event Information: From here choose the details you want to display. This data is being imported from the event details in eReg.

Agenda details:

Session layout: This lets you choose the information about the sessions you want to display in your agenda. Session filters: Here you can filter which sessions to display based on a number of different criteria.

Speaker details:

Speaker layout: This lets you choose the speaker information you want to display as well as how to sort them. Speakers filters: This option lets you filter which

speakers to show depending on the attendee’s category. Option details: This content type lets you choose whether to display options available from eReg. Lodging details: Here you can select what information to display about the lodging you are offering in your event. Buttons/actions:

Button Settings: Here you select to generate buttons for specific actions like a button that redirects someone to register for the event, or add to their outlook calendar. Other actions: This option lets you add a form where attendees can send comments.

Custom HTML: Add any other content you want on your eHome site using the etouches HTML editor. Event Promotion: This option lets you add buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and AddThis that will send out messages with links to your event. Image/galleries:

Here you are given the option to add a single images or create a photo gallery from mulitple images already in your account.

Marketing Boxes: Here you have some options for the type of marketing box you will display on your eHome page.

When you select the Rotate sponsor option, this Sponsor Settings section will be displayed. The sponsors that are shown are the sponsors that have been loaded to your account already. You can then choose different settings for how and which to display in eHome.

Marketing Boxes:

View Type: Select whether your events should be displayed in a calendar view or a list view. Filters: Here you can choose whether you let your attendees filter the calendar as well as which event types in the calendar they should be able to see.

Directory listing:

Report Settings: This dropdown lists reports you can select to base the directory listing from. Directory Settings: Here you can set whether you want to let users refine fields and to display images from your reports.

my website • general settings

Check the first box if you want your attendees to be directed to eHome instead of your eReg Welcome page. Checing the second box will allow you to use the HTML editor to change font sizes types for your custom content.

The Advanced settings section lets you choose whether you want search engines to include your eHome in their results and lets you add metadata to your eHome pages.

my website

my website • event logo

Here you can use the eReg logo or you can upload a logo for your eSocial site. For more information refer to the Look & Feel manual or video.

Check this box if you want to use the same event logo for eSocial that you use for your eReg site. Otherwise you can choose a different logo.

my website • colors & fonts

In this section you can either choose the background page colors and the font styles of your eSocial. You can also choose to copy from eReg or use different settings. For more information refer to the Look & Feel manual or video.

my website • advanced styles

In this section you will have the ability to alter the colors of your Top Navigation menu as well as alter the widths/padding/ and margins for your eSocial site. For more information refer to the Look & Feel manual or video.