If you want to share information with your youth members, adult members or parents that isn't news or an event, such as Scouter discounts at local shops or local resources, the notice board pages are ideal.

Each sticky note pinned to the board has a "See Details" button to show your text and imagery to describe the note.

Each notice board page can have multiple boards, so you could even have a notice board for each patrol.

Notice boards are available for group sites on each section's sub-menu and the Members menu. District and County sites have Notice Boards available on the About and Members menus. To add a notice board page, simply enable it in Admin/Page Management.

The type of Contact Form displayed on each page may be changed. In addition to this, the following enhancements have been added:

• Agreement Text/Tick Box:
  If set, your message will be displayed at the end of the contact form along with a tick box for the user must check to state that they read/agree to your text, prior to submitting the form.
• Overriding Recipient:
  If set, the form details will always be sent to this user, instead of your site admin users. As an example, this could be useful if you want Hall Bookings to be sent to a particular person.
• Captcha:
  
  If setup (in Admin/Group Details) all forms will show a Scouting term, and prompt the user to enter it before they submit the form. This is useful if you start to receive spam emails from automated web crawlers or similar.
• Online NAN Form:
  If you select this form type, the form will show all the fields required for a Nights Away Notification form. You could add this form type to a new page in your members menu and set the Overriding Recipient to your DC, to reduce your paper form postage.

After logging in, registered users now have the ability to upload their own profile photograph in My Profile.

A new field has been added to the News/Blog articles to limit the period that the article shows for. When the Expiry Date is set, the article won't appear in news lists after that date.

This is useful for stories with a limited lifespan, e.g. "New Website"

Google Analytics enables website administrators to track page hits and site visitors. Scouts Online administrators may now make use of this service by adding a Google Analytics Tracking ID to their site in Group Details or Global Settings.

For more details, search the internet for "Google Analytics".

If you add your Scout Association group registration number in Group Details, it will appear in the website footer.

For District/County sites, the group's registration number will be displayed in the group details page.

Scouts Online default content is updated for you, in line with relevant Scout Association initiatives.

At the start of the year the Cubs 100 logo was added to the Cubs home page image banner.

Scouts Online websites come with an on-brand look-and-feel as standard. The home page is based on www.Scouts.org.uk.

However, there's a new alternate home page design for groups that have News articles, Events, Photo albums, and/or Social feeds.

This alternative home page may be switched on/off without affecting your current site content.

If you would like to try it, please contact me to switch it on.

Although these pages have been around since 2015, I thought it was worth re-visiting them here.

You can add your own pages to most of the menus from Admin/Page Management.

For example, to add a new page to your About menu, tick "About Page 1", change the Menu Title, Page Header name, select the page Privacy level and click [update]. After moving back to the Home page, the menu will be re-initialised and the page will appear on your About menu.

To keep a consistent on-brand layout, the page comes pre-structured with a left-hand menu/links bar, header image banner, header text area, YouTube video control, Middle text area, Contact Form and links bar at the bottom. Each of these controls can be populated or not. NB. The left-hand menu bar has recently been enhanced to add a Menu Bar style option.

Where a group and district both have Scouts Online websites with common users, user name and contact detail changes made in one website will be reflected in the other.

This reduces the chance of old phone numbers being shown in District Directory pages.

Scouts Online previously used Microsoft Bing maps to show location maps. As Microsoft will be removing support for this version of the Bing map widget in the next few months, these have all been replaced with Google maps.

This also has the advantage that Google maps often show more details of buildings.

You can now use your own logo on your website header bar, instead of the standard Scouts tick logo.

For group websites, it's even possible to have different logos for each section, so your ESU can use their's for Section/Explorers pages, whilst other sections can use the standard Scouts logo, or your group logo.

Upload your logo in File Manager and then add the file path to each section in Admin/Section Details for group sites or Admin/Global Details for district/county sites.