Novi AMS

Organize your site content in the backend.

Managing Folders and Pages in Novi AMS

Jaime Morgan, CAE

Pete Zimek, CAE

Jenn Norman, CAE

This is the backbone that drives an Association's front end website.

Customizing Your Website with the Novi CMS

Review a list of available themes for your website.

Novi Website Themes

Learn how to create a new webpage in Novi.

Add a New Page to Your Website

How to add/edit items to the Top Featured, Slider, Alert & Sponsor Section of your Website

Updating Your Website's Homepage

Learn how to add or remove items from your website's main menu navigation.

Updating Your Website Navigation

Learn how to add and edit content on the frontend of your Novi website.

Formatting Website Content on the Frontend

Best practices to consider when choosing featured images.

Featured Image Best Practices

Learn the pitfalls of copying & pasting content directly from MS Word or another website and how to migrate website content correctly.

Copy & Paste Content onto Your Website

Lock down visibility of files to specific users and keep track of which users are viewing each file.

Secure Files

Learn how to upload files to Novi from the backend (admin section).

Uploading Files to Novi AMS

Learn how admins can upload (and edit) an image to a Novi record.

Add or Edit Headshot or Logo on a Profile in Novi

How to choose the right template option to optimize readability on your standard content pages in Novi

Selecting the Appropriate Template for a Static Page

Learn how to change the images displayed at the top of your home page.

Change Homepage Image

Learn how to edit the Join modal (Membership & Account Access).

Edit the Join Modal

Learn how to add links and buttons to text in content managed regions of your website.

Add Link or Button to Text

Learn how to upload and link to a PDF on your Novi website.

Add or Update a PDF

How to add anchor links to the CMS regions of your Novi website.

Add Anchor Links to a Static Page

Learn how to add an image to a page, apply basic styling to wrap text around the image, and add code to make the image responsive.

Add an Image to a Page

Learn ways that will help your photos / pictures look their best on your site.

Best Practices for Optimizing Images for Your Website

Find out where the Novi team goes to search for stock photography.

Stock Images

How to add an Instagram post to your website.

Instagram Feed Setup

How to create and write a new article on your website, and restrict the visibility of articles via the blog category settings.

Posting a Blog (News) Article

Learn how to edit content in your blog regions.

Editing Blog / News Content Regions

Learn why it's easiest and best to edit articles and events from the frontend.

Formatting Event Details & News Articles

If you're saving a PDF, an image or even a friendly file name for a Novi record, you'll need to avoid certain characters.

Characters to Avoid When Creating File Names (and URLs)

Styling and editing pages on your website.

Can Admins Change the Font or Colors on Webpages?

Melanie Dupont

Getting Started

Give members easier access to your most important information and updates.

Showcase Featured Events, Articles, Static Pages & Products on Your Homepage in a Carousel

Create a new section on your homepage for advertising and featuring members.

Create a Featured Member Listing on the Homepage

Learn how to quickly place a site-wide alert at the top of every page of your website.

Emergency Alert

Learn more about how you can use one time alert to notify your visitors about cookie tracking

One Time Alert

Callouts can emphasize important information, break up a text-heavy page, and more!

Use Callouts in Your Content to Highlight Important Information

Melisa Smith

Featuring Content & Alerting Website Visitors

Here are some great uses of content and best practices from other Novi customer associations.

Website Content That Will Inform Members and Promote Your Association!

Feature people and/or companies on website pages by using Leadership Roles.

Creating & Updating Leadership Roles

Best practice and how-to's for embedding an album (or post) from Facebook into your Novi website.

How To Embed a Facebook Photo Album in a Novi Website

Embedding forms, such as Google forms or Formstack forms, in your Novi site.

How to Embed Forms in a Novi Website

How to Embed PDFs on a Static Page

Learn how to communicate major alerts using site-wide alerts, the Member Compass, or by featuring an Event or Article.

Communicate Important Information via Your Novi Website

Website Content Ideas

Learn how to create a "microsite" by using button groups in the source code of static pages.

Advanced: Using Button Groups

Learn how you can set up a custom calculator to show prospective members what their annual dues would cost before they sign up.

Membership Calculator Plugin

How to update your website by changing the quick link icons.

Font Awesome: Enhancing Web Design with Iconic Icons

Learn how and why we ask search engines (like Google) not to include your images and other uploaded files in search results.

Should Website Images & Files Appear in Search Engines?

This documentation will help you add, remove & update slides, links and other items related to your custom homepage carousel.

Advanced: Custom Homepage Carousel

Learn tips and tricks for embedding Google Ads into your site.

Advanced: Embedding Google Ads

Adding and Formatting Videos on Your Novi Website

How to embed a video on your website and lock it down to members-only or a specific group of users.

Embed Videos & Webinars as a Members-Only Resource

Add an Animated GIF (short video) to your Website

Learn how to add and edit accordions using HTML on a static webpage to make text-heavy content aesthetically pleasing.

Use Accordions to Organize and Streamline Website Content

Tables are generally frowned upon in modern web design, but there are still some valid uses for them.

Adding Tables to a Webpage

Help users navigate your website by adding breadcrumb trails.

Add Breadcrumbs to Static Pages on your Novi Website

Learn how to divide content into two columns by adding a "div" code to the webpage's source code.

Advanced: Dividing Content Into Columns

Use image maps to make logos (or other areas) clickable on an image.

Advanced: Image Maps

Learn how to leverage Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to track PDF downloads or other website events.

Advanced: Track PDF Downloads on Novi AMS Websites

Learn how to customize the aesthetic of your website by adding CSS styles in your settings.

Advanced: Add Global CSS Styles to your Novi Website

Learn what content is included in the front-end website search.

Understanding the Content Included in Site-Wide Search for Novi AMS Websites

Why AI Widgets Aren't the Solution for Website Accessibility

Next Level Content

Learn how to update your site's logo and branding information like association name

A Guide to Updating Your Logo

Request that Google re-index your webpage(s) and/or remove invalid search results.

Ask Google to Recrawl Your URLs

Learn why your website will render with some variations across your members.

Browser Variances

How to utilize Redirects for your Novi AMS website.

Using Redirects to Direct Old URLs to Your Website

A Complete List of Acceptable Novi File Types

Learn how to restore content on your website if you accidentally save changes

Restore Previous Content on a Page

How to find deleted files in your Trash folder.

Restoring Deleted Novi Files

Learn how to customize the way a page on your website will appear within search results.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Learn how modern browsers automatically translate your content for non-English speakers.

Translate Your Website Content

Learn more about how Google's reCAPTCHA algorithm works for password resets on Novi websites.

How reCAPTCHA Works on Novi Websites

NAA Click & Lease Content

Learn what a distributed denial of service is and how DDoS protection works.

DDoS Protection

Advanced Social Media Sharing: Using Meta Tags

Jon Shiver, CAE

Technical Details

Troubleshooting: Site Not Loading

Learn how to quickly check the image sizes on a web page to determine if the file size is too large.

Troubleshooting: Webpage Loading Slow

Learn how to solve the issue of Facebook embeds not displaying

Troubleshooting: Facebook Embeds

Learn how to find a member record that is using a specific friendly file name so that you can avoid conflicts.

Troubleshooting: A page already exists with that file name.

Image overlays indicate that you are editing.

Image appears colored or dark after inserting it into a CMS region or page.

Can't find a blog article on the frontend of your website? This could be due to a few reasons.

Blog (News) Article is Not Visible on Website

Learn why a hyperlink on your website may not be working properly.

Troubleshooting: Why Aren’t My Links Working?

Troubleshooting

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