Putting your pages on your own website

Every public page Campsite Manager gives you is an ordinary web address, so the simplest way onto your own website is always a link or a button. Two of them can also sit inside a page of your own: your availability calendar and your mailing list sign-up form. The rest are kept to their own page on purpose, below.

Your availability and enquiry page

Most website editors can show a page inside one of yours. Look for a block called Embed, HTML or Custom code — Wix, Squarespace and WordPress all have one — and paste this in, with your own link (from Enquiries) in place of the one here.

<iframe
  src="https://campsitemanager.toolsforscouting.com/book/YOUR-LINK"
  title="Availability"
  width="100%"
  height="900"
  style="border:0"
></iframe>

The height is the fiddly part. A page shown inside a box can’t tell your website how tall it needs to be, so you pick a number. 900 suits most sites. If it ends up with its own scrollbar inside your page, raise it until it doesn’t.

Embed the calendar, but link to the enquiry form. The availability page is only a view, so it sits happily in a box. The enquiry form has an anti-spam check on it, and browsers are increasingly strict about forms running inside a box on somebody else’s page — so point people at that one with an ordinary link or button. A form asking for dates and contact details deserves a whole page anyway.

On a phone, a plain link is often better than either. A calendar squeezed into a short box on a small screen is harder to use than a button that says “Check availability” and opens the real thing. There is nothing second-best about linking to it — plenty of sites do only that.

Your mailing list sign-up form

Under Sign-up form on the Marketing page there’s code to copy that puts the form straight into a page of your own, the same way as the calendar above. Nobody is added until they click the link in the email it sends them, so a form inside your page is safe.

Courses, events, the jobs board, volunteer sign-up and Gift Aid

These go on your website as a link or a button, and only that: each one refuses to be shown inside somebody else’s page. They take people’s names, contact details or money, and a form shown inside another site is how people get tricked into filling in something they didn’t mean to. On its own page, the address bar shows whose it is.

Copy the link from that page’s settings (Portals in the menu takes you to each), then add a button or link to it in your website editor. If your editor wants HTML, this is a plain button that opens it in the same tab:

<a href="https://campsitemanager.toolsforscouting.com/events/YOUR-LINK"
   style="display:inline-block;padding:12px 20px;border-radius:8px;
          background:#2c5f34;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">
  Book tickets
</a>

The bookers’ portal isn’t one of these. Each group gets its own private link to their booking, in their confirmation emails, so it doesn’t belong on your website.

If you make a new link

Replacing a page’s link stops the old one working at once, including on your website, so update your website at the same time.