Congratulations on the purchase of your new custom website. And welcome to the your Website Administration Area where you have 100% full controll of your website.

The system has been designed to be as simple and easy to use as possible. In addition to the following manual, a Video Demonstration CD will soon be available for those who do not like reading manuals. If you prefer to learn how to update and maintain your website with a hands-on training instructor, private lessons and small classes are also available. Please contact your reseller for more information on this.

As you begin to update and make changes to your website, you will be amazed at how simple and easy it is to maintain your own website!

Once you click the 'Website Pages' button you will see your 'Welcome' link on the list of pages. This is the first page that your visitors see when they come to your website.

Click on 'Edit' to make changes to the 'Welcome' content.

When done, click on the 'Enter' button to the left of the 'Welcome' button to continue into your website.

In addition to adding new pages to the main menu you can also add new pages as submenus of the main menu. To do this simply click on 'Enter' to the left of the main menu page under which you want the submenus to show.

You can:

• Edit the content of any page by clicking the "Edit" link,
• Preview any page by clicking the "Preview" link,
• Continue exploring into any page by clicking the 'Enter' () button to the left of a menu
• Once you have entered the main menu area by click the 'Welcome' 'Enter' button you can add pages simply by clicking the 'Add a Page' Link that appears at the bottom of the screen.
• You can create submenus under any page by clicking 'Enter' to the left of the page name in which you want to create the submenus and then clicking the 'Add a Page' Link from there.
  
  
  

Adding a Page

Clicking on the "Add a Page" link will bring up a blank form. Add your new page by providing the following information:

• Page Name: The text entered here will be the name of the page's menu link. Each template is designed differently and allows the menu links to be only a certain amount of characters long before cutting off the text or distorting the template.
  Try to keep the page name short. This name will also be displayed as the title of the page and on the navigation bar.
• Status: Publish or Draft. If you save a page in "Draft" mode the page will be saved but will not be visible to your site's visitor. Note that Users with a User Access of Author are limited to Draft status. If you save a page in "Publish" mode, it will be immediately visible to site visitors.
• Sort Number: You can control the order in which pages are listed at each level by assigning Sort Numbers. We recommend that you "space" the numbers far apart so that additional pages can be inserted in order if the need arises. We like numbering the pages 10, 20, 30, etc.
• Content: Here's where you will add the content, or text, of your page. If you (and other authorized users) are using IE5.5 or later, you will be able to add content using the Webpage Editor.
• Use image on menu instead of page name: this is an advanced feature for more experienced users of the program. You can design an advertising image have that displayed as a link on the left menu. This is a useful feature for adding advertisers, links to friend's websites or sponsors on the left menu.
• Outside link: When adding links for advertisers, friends or sponsors using this feature will take the visitor directly to the wesite you want them to visit.
• Last Modified By?: The name of the last User who edited the page, as well as the date and time that the page was last edited is automatically displayed here. This will not appear on your website. It is a feature built into your Website Administration Area so that the maintenance of your website can be managed more effectively.
  Since you can create (and remove) many Login Names and Passwords for different people to login and help you work on your website, you will want to know who made the last change and when.
  For example, if one day you view your website and see strange and funny pictures of you all over a page. All you have to do is scroll down to the bottom and you will see right away which co-worker/friend/employee added the inappropriate content.
  Or for another example, Ben is a good talker but is extremely terrible at grammar and spelling. Beatrice is an excellent linguist but does not have the gift of gap. So you appoint Ben as the Senior Edior In Chief of you website and ask Beatrice and all the rest of your staff to please help revise the content of your website immediately whenever they sees that a page has recently been edited by Ben.
  
  
  
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Side Pages

Side pages are those that do have a link going to them from the main menu or any of the submenus.

They are useful when you want to have a separate page within your website but don't think that the page is important enough to deserve it's own link on either the main menu or any of the submenus.

To start, click on the "Side Pages" link at the top of any Pages screen. You will be taken to the list of all existing side pages, or you'll see a message that says "You have no Side Pages in your database. Please add one."

For each existing Side Page you'll see its title as well as buttons to edit, preview and delete the page. In columns to the right you'll also see boxes containing each side page's Markup Tag and HTML Tag. To place a link to a side page into a page:
1) Copy the side page's HTML Tag
2) Go to 'Edit' the page where you want to place the link to the side page
3) Click on the location in the page where you want to place the link
4) Click the "<>" (View HTML source button)
5) Past the HTML code and save the page.
6) Done!



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Draft Pages

Draft pages are those composed by Authors (who can compose pages ONLY in draft mode), or by Editors and Administrators who have selected that the page remain in draft mode. If an Author requires a page to be published right away, they need to contact an Editor or Administrator and have them login approve the page to be published.

Note that Draft Pages will not appear in the hierarchy of your site (as viewed by the public audience), and they will not appear in Search results. Changing the status from "Draft" to "Publish" will immediately place the page in the site's hierarchy and will immediately allow it to be displayed in Search results.

At all of the Page listing screens, you will see a link to "Draft Pages." This feature can be especially useful to Administrators and Editors who need to review periodically whether there are any Draft Pages that have been composed by Authors. The Administrator or Editor can find all Draft Pages in one place and change the Status to Publish as needed.




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The Website Editor

Color Picker Hyperlink Editor Insert Table Popup

The Website Editor Toolbar

The Website Editor lets you format your content as easily as if you were using a Word Processor. The familiar buttons on the toolbar deliver these features and more:

• Change the font and size of text
• Bold, italicize and underline text
• Left, center or right align text
• Create numbered and unordered (bulleted) lists
• Indent and unindent paragraphs
• Change text color (launches Color Picker)
• Change background color (launches Color Picker)
• Create horizontal rules
• Create hyperlinks (launches Hyperlink Editor)
• Add images to the content of your page (launches Image Chooser popup)
• Create tables (launches Insert Table Popup)
• Enlarge the editor to a full-screen window
• Switch over to view the raw HTML source that the Website Editor generates and edit it directly.
  
  
  
  

Managing Website Images

Content managers will probably find the WYSIWYG Editor's Image Chooser more convenient and flexible than our Images module to manage images. Start by clicking on the Image icon in the Website Editor's toolbar as seen in this screenshot:

The Image icon on the Website Editor Toolbar

After clicking on the Image icon you'll see the Image Chooser popup:

The Image Chooser

In this example we only have one file that's been uploaded: logo.gif. Click on the file name in the top left panel, and the image will be displayed in the top right panel. Also, its URL will be shown in the "Image URL" box. Click the OK button to add this image to your page. It will be inserted at the location of the cursor.

Add images to the Image Chooser by first clicking the "Browse" button in the Upload New Image area of the popup. Select the image file from the Explorer-like popup and click Open. Finally, click the "Upload" button. Note that the size of image files is limited by the Config setting "Image Size Limit" (by default, 100K).

Delete images by clicking the "[delete]" link next to the filename in the top left panel.

You can add folders underneath the default myimages directory by entering the name of the folder and then clicking the "Create" button in the Create New Folder area of the popup. Note that while you can add folders via the Image Chooser, you cannot delete them.

Images for Advanced Users

This feature is an experimental feature currently in beta testing. Advanced users will be able to upload photos that enlarge when clicked on.

Always compress your image files as much as possible before uploading (while allowing for presentable images). For more information about compressing and optimizing images, please consult the online Help or printed documentation for your graphic software.

In the Images module you can assign each image to a category. New categories can be created any time you add an image. Note that categories are not folders or subdirectories -- all images uploaded via the Images module are stored in the myimages directory, regardless of category.

Once you have added one or more images and go to the Image page, you will see the list of categories near the top of the page. Click on a category name to see the images assigned to that category. You may change attributes as needed. For smoother loading of images in your visitors' browsers, include the width and height attributes when possible.

Attributes are editable, but the images themselves are not. If you need to replace an image, you must first delete the old one and then add the new one.

This feature is currently in beta testing.

Upon completion the feature will allow advanced and premium users to upload videos and music to their website.

The 'Music & Video' feature will allow you to upload files to the myuploads directory.

To upload a file, click on the Uploads button on any screen in the Admin area. Near the top of the page you'll see a "Browse" button, which, when clicked, will popup a view of your computer's directories. Select the file that you want to upload and click OK. Then, click the "Upload" button. You will get a message that tells you whether your file was successfully uploaded.

The bottom portion of the screen displays the following information about each uploaded file:

• File name

  You can click on the file name to download or open the file. Browser permitting, you can also right-click on the name for additional choices.

• HTML code

  HTML code that you can use in your Pages is generated automatically. For image files, you will see an IMG tag. For all other files you'll get an A tag.

• Delete button

  You can delete any previously-uploaded file by clicking the Delete button. You will be prompted to confirm whether or not you really want to delete the file. Clicking "Yes" immediately and permanently deletes the file from the server.

Note that the 'Music & Video' feature is available only to the Administrator and Editor User Roles.

Administrators can add users and edit settings of all users. The exception is that only a user can change his or her own password. This applies to all Users regardless of User Role.

Note that when a User is added, the User's password is encrypted. Not even you as the website owner can see another User's password.

There are three User Roles with varying degrees of user authority:

• Administrator
• Editors
• Authors

USER ROLE PERMISSIONS
	Administrator	Editor	Author
Edit the Configuration	X
Add Users	X
Remove Users	X
Upload files	X	X
Delete uploaded files	X	X
Edit Pages	X	X
Delete Pages	X	X
Create Pages (Publish mode)	X	X
Create Pages (Draft mode)	X	X	X
Add Images	X	X	X
Modify Image information	X	X	X
Delete Images	X	X	X
Change own password	X	X	X

Authors can add a new page to the CMS, but it will be stored in draft mode only. That means that the page will not be "live" on the site until an Editor or Administrator edits it and changes the status from "Draft" to "Publish."

Managing Users (Administrators only): Click on the "Users" button on any page in the Admin module. This will bring up a list of all current users in last name order.

• Add a User: Click on the "Add a User" link. On the next screen enter the first and last name and email address of the user. Note that the email address will be the logon ID for that User. A box for additional instructions/comments is provided. After you click the Submit button a record for the new User will be entered into the mySQL database, and an email will be sent to the new User (cc: to the Administrator) containing the logon information, including User ID, automatically-generated password and additional instructions/comments.
• Edit a User: When the list of Users is displayed, click on the "Edit" button. The next screen displays the logon information for the user. The password is not displayed, but if you are editing your own User record, you can reset your password. If you want to keep your current password, you'll have to enter it again. After you click the Submit button the User's record (including the password) in the mySQL database will be changed, and an email containing the changed logon information will be sent to the User (cc: to the Administrator).
• Delete a User: When the list of Users is displayed, click on the "Delete" button. You will be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the User record. If you click "Yes", the record for that User will be immediately and permanently deleted from the system.

Note that the password generated for each User is encrypted in the database. Not even Administrators can see another User's password. Because this password is encrypted, a password cannot be retrieved -- it can only be reset by an Administrator.

I Forgot my Password: This feature is available at the Logon screen. This merely brings up the User's email client with these items lines pre-filled:

• To: The System Administrator
• Subject: Please reset my password

Assuming that the User sends the email with the same email address previously assigned to the User record, the System Administrator will be notified that that User needs to have the password reset. The System Administrator will then manually go into the User module, edit that User's record, and click the Submit button. This action will reset the User's password and send an email to the User containing the new password.

Here are the various settings you can control :

• Site Name: The title of your site
• # Columns in Submenu: You can control the number of columns in the submenu.
• Description Meta Tag: Customize the description meta tag
• Keywords Meta Tag: Customize the keywords meta tag
• Select a Website Design: Select a template for your site

You can switch to a different website design at any time. Simply click on the new website design you want to use for your website. The design of your website will instantly change, while all the content of your website including main menus and submenus remains the same.

5 basic website designs have been included for demo purposes. You can purchase more designs from the website design store or have a custom design made exclusively for your website. Please contact your reseller for more information on purchasing more website designs.

Select a Website Design

Select one of the existing website designs shown. If you haven't already, add some pages to your site, and then return to the Website Setup & Design area and select a different website design. When you select a different website design, the underlying content of your site does not change -- only the way that content is displayed changes.