SIS Recruiting Service - Prospect Maintained Page

This process provides a way for each prospect to keep the information on their profile current. Updates can be entered and/or changed as a prospect's accomplishments grow. Changes are made interactively to the page using standard HTML code. At any time during the update process, the results of changes can be viewed through a browser by pressing the REVIEW button. After viewing the page, the browser's BACK button will return to the coding (or writing) page for additional changes. When updates have been completed, and you are ready to submit them to SIS, press the REVIEW button once again. At the bottom of the "review page" will be a button marked SUBMIT to SIS. Pressing this button will send a signal to SIS that the page has been updated and ready to be moved into an area for coaches.

You also have the option to delete the changes you've made during the update session. If this is your choice, press the Delete Changes button located just under the SUBMIT to SIS button on the "review page".

Getting Started

After your ID and Password have been validated, a page containing an "information box" will be returned to your screen. Your updates will be entered into the "information box" on that screen. You'll notice that a date and time stamp are automatically added as the first line of the "information box". Date and time stamps will be added as the first line each time new updates are entered. It is suggested that updates to your page be added on the line after the most current date and time stamp.
Sample "information Box"

If this is your first time using this feature, try pressing the review button before you make any entries. This will allow you to see how a browser will view the date and time stamp. Notice that the first three characters of the date and time stamp line are <p>. This is HTML for starting a new paragraph which is discussed below. The next three characters are <b> which is the HTML code for highlighting or bolding. Everything between the <b>and the </b> will be presented as bold. The last 4 characters are <br> which is the HTML command for breaking to the next line. This too is discussed below.

Minimal HTML to learn

Only two elements of HTML code are needed to maintain a page. One is for starting a new paragraph, and one is for breaking to the next line. Other HTML codes can be used as you wish.

If these two codes are not used, the text that you enter will flow as one long paragraph. For example:

This example will illustrate what happens when the "new paragraph" html code is not used. In this example, the sentence begining with "If this were a new paragraph" should be a new paragraph. Because the "new paragraph" code ( <p> ) is not placed before the first word of the new paragraph, a new paragraph is not started. If this were a new paragraph and the html "new paragraph" code was placed before the first word of this sentence then the new paragraph would have started with this sentence as illustrated in the next example. This example will illustrate what happens when the "new paragraph" html code is properly used. The new paragraph code <p>was placed before the first sentence of the new paragraph causing a new paragraph to start.

If this were a new paragraph and the html "new paragraph" code was placed before the first word of this sentence then the new paragraph would have started with this sentence as illustrated in this example.

Note - this too is a new paragraph because the new paragraph html code ( <p>) preceeds this sentence.

The only difference between the "break to next line" html code ( <br>) and the "new paragraph" html code (<p>) is that the <p> adds a blank line between the old paragraph and new paragraph, and the <br> does not.

That is all you need to know about HTML to use this feature. You will have a chance to review the results of your updates before they are available for others. Therefore, you can experiment as you learn how to use these two codes. If you have a good understanding of the use of other HTML codes then you are welcome to use them where appropriate.

Links to other pages from the "prospect maintained" page will not be allowed

SIS will review all pages before moving them into production. If after reviewing a prospect's page, SIS believes it contains inappropriate material then SIS will either edit the page or delete it entirely.