You have just installed SociWeb. Here is what to do, in this order. It takes about half an hour.

1. The Setup wizard, first of all

Go to Magón panel → Setup wizard and press the button to create the menus. In one pass it builds:

• The members menu (their record, their card, their payments, the calendar, the photos…) and the module that shows it on the site.
• The public menu: what a visitor sees — calendar, photos, rules and how to join.

Watch out for this one, it is the most common confusion: in Joomla a menu does not appear on the site just because it exists. It also needs a module to show it. The wizard creates both, but if you ever build a menu by hand, remember the module or nobody will see it.

2. Who you are

Magón panel → Options → Association identity. Name, town, logo and email address. This shows up in the emails you send, on the membership cards and on Google, so it is worth five minutes.

3. Your sections

Before adding a single member, decide how yours is divided: adult, junior, supporter, retired… It is done in Magón panel → Subsections. Fees hang off these, so changing it later is considerably more work.

4. The members

If you are coming from a spreadsheet, do not type them in one by one: see the import part of the Members section of this manual.

5. Sample content

The same wizard has a button to load demonstration content: committees, events, a gallery and two rule documents. It lets you see how everything looks before putting your own in, and it can be deleted afterwards.