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You will receive an account creation email from TIME Sites. Click on the link to set your password. And remember to bookmark app.timesites.io.
When you’re ready to start inviting new team members, you can do so from your dashboard. When an Admin adds another user, they can decide what level of permission that user gets. Watch the video below to see how you can add a new team member. If you need to add a lot of users and adding them one by one isn’t feasible, please reach out to your CSM and they can help.
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Structuring your account
Permissions
TIME Sites lets you set different levels of permissions for different users. Currently the two main levels of permissions are:
- Admin: These users have full access to Design Studio and Content Studio, and can invite new users as well.
- Content Studio: These users can only access Content Studio and are unable to invite new users.
For both roles, you can also choose if someone should have the ability to publish. You can set these roles when you invite someone, or by going to Team Members > hover over the team member > selecting 'Manage Role'. This is also where you can remove a user.
Tagging
Tags are placed on your templates, websites, and Block to organize them. Tags work like a filter, so you can find what you are looking for by browsing the tags that you have applied. For example, if an item is tagged both “Testimonials,” and “Sales Enablement,” it will display when either tag is clicked. An item can be left untagged or it can have one or more tags. You can add any number of tags to your account in order to organize the content you see on My TIME Sites.
Work with your team to decide on what tags make the most sense and proper naming conventions, so that anyone within your organization can quickly find what they are looking for.
Blocks
Blocks are custom-made, reusable components that you can add to your page by simply dragging and dropping. Any collection of elements that you’ve added to the page can be saved as a reusable Block. From that point on, it will appear in the Blocks drawer for you to use on that website and can be set as a default block to be used on any website in your account. Building out your block library enables your team to create faster, as they would no longer need to build everything from scratch each time.
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Templates
Templates are full websites that have been designed to be used as a starting point for a new website. If you know that you and/or your team will be creating multiple versions of a certain type of website, it’s best practice to build out a template for that type of site and have everyone creating their new site from the template instead of duplicating existing websites. Continuously duplicating websites can lead to unexpected buggy behavior.
Once your new site has been created from a template, it no longer maintains any connection to the template you used. If the template is updated in the future, or even deleted, this won’t affect your site. And changes you make to your site does not affect the template.
Templates start as websites, and once completed are then saved as a template. Here are somethings you should keep in mind while building out your templates:
Before you build
- What is the purpose of your site?
- Who will be using the template (designers/non-designers)?
- What content/sections will go on the site? Make sure you have the template wireframed out.
- Have you collected the assets (images, icons, fonts, colors, copy) for the template?
While you build
- Label the elements in the page structure panel clearly so anyone who uses the template can quickly understand how it was built.
- Lock down content you don't want Content Studio users to edit.
- Make sure the site is easy to edit.
- Add the copy, media, and colors you want on all sites made from this template.
- Add the social image, site description, and favicon. When others create a new website from your template, it will use these by default (but they'll be free to change them if they want.)
Best practices
- How complicated or interactive you make the site, and how much content you lock, depends on the proficiency level of the users who will be using this template.
- Everything on the site (text, media, fonts, and colors) will be saved as part of the template, so make sure to only add content that's necessary so you don't clutter or over complicate the template.
- Separate sections into different parent containers instead of just one parent container so that it's easy for users in Content Studio to add/remove sections.
Once you’ve saved a custom template, you’re free to return to it later to make edits if you want to. Any templates that your team has created can be updated and re-saved at any time. To update a template, go to the template gallery, hover over the thumbnail of the template you want to edit and click on the 3 dots that appear. Select “Edit Template” from the drop down. Once you've made your edits, make sure to save your changes. These changes will not affect any site that has been previously created from this template.
Custom fonts
TIME Sites' Font Library allows you to easily upload and manage any font you choose. Fonts can be set per website, or be available by default account wide. When it comes to adding new fonts, there are four ways that can happen in TIME Sites:
- Google Fonts: We have a native integration with Google Fonts. Open then Font Manager, select a font, and immediately start using it. Learn more ▸
- Adobe Fonts: Create a web project for the fonts you want to use, copy the line of CSS given, and paste into TIME Sites' Font Manager. Learn more ▸
- Hoefler Fonts: Drag and drop the font folder you recieve from Hoefler & Co into TIME Sites' Font Manager. Learn more ▸
- Custom Fonts: If your font isn’t from one of the above foundries, you can upload any other font by placing the WOFF or WOFF2 files with accompanying CSS in a folder, the dragging and dropping that into TIME Sites' Font Manager. The font files must be WOFF or WOFF2, OTF and TTF files are not web approved file extensions. You can convert OTF and TTF files to WOFF or WOFF2, but keep in mind those conversions might not be well suited for the web. Learn more ▸
Pro tip
When adding fonts, make sure you select all the variations you want to have available. Otherwise you might not be able to use the proper weight or italicization.
Training
Tutorials
Our Tutorials site houses all of our support videos, from our Basics course to very targeted tutorial videos (think how to achieve vertical alignment, a 5 column grid, any any other specific builds). Here you'll find a wide array of 1-5 minute videos that answer specific questions.
Designer certification
Ready to become a TIME Sites Certified Designer? Build and submit a website for us to review!
If you want the world to know that you have completed our TIME Sites Basics course, or if you have already been designing and building awesome websites using the TIME Sites Design Studio, our TIME Sites Designer Certification program is for you. And it’s completely free!
Here’s how it works:
- Build a website in the TIME Sites Design Studio according to our specifications.
- Submit your finished website to us.
- One of our TIME Sites Master Designers will review your work—live online (on all devices) and in the TIME Sites app.
- If the Master Designer finds that your website has met all of our evaluation criteria, you’ll get a TIME Sites Certified Designer badge that you can add to your LinkedIn profile and a digital certificate of completion (PDF).
- If your website does not meet all of our evaluation criteria, you’ll receive feedback and will have an opportunity to revise and resubmit it.
As a TIME Sites Certified Designer, you’ll join our network of talented people who use our platform to make cool digital experiences. Once you’re in this TIME Sites network, we may refer our clients to you when they need help building websites, or reach out to you directly when we need help with our own projects.
Take your web design career to the next level with TIME Sites!
Schedule your design workshop
Our team of expert designers can help ensure your first project is a success. After completing TIME Sites Basics and your Designer Certification, reach out to your Customer Success Manager to schedule a workshop and we will help guide you through your first build. We find that scheduling this within the first week of your first project is the most effective timing. Design workshops are typically 30 minutes.