Page Editor
The first thing you will probably want to learn about is editing your homepage and adding new pages. To do this, you will need to login to your Control Panel (this is the same url as the User Login link on your homepage) using your administration username and password. NOTE: Outside Java scripts and codes placed in this are are not supported by our staff. This is an HTML editor, and may not be able to properly save other language codes. Please use care. Also, do not create text in other programs such as Works, Word, etc. and then try to paste it in the editor as those programs are word processors, not html editors and problems may arise when trying to edit them using our editor later.
What you will see after logging in, and below the User's (Your Visitors) Control Panel will look similar to this:
You will want to click on the icon that is circled in this image in order to access and edit any existing pages within your site or to create and apply new ones. After clicking on this icon, a page list will display of all web pages on your site.
The Title column shows you the name of the page,
the Type column lets you know if the page is a plug-in, offering
modules such as the business directory, classifieds, calendar, etc, (and is
powered using one of our scripts), or if it is an HTML page that contains only
information that is completely customizable by you. The Link
column tells you where the current link to this page displays on your site. The Status
column simply lets you know if the page is currently "active" (able to
be seen by visitors) or "hidden" (not able to be accessed by
visitors). The far right hand column titled Options contains the following icons:
Edits an page.
Allows you to assign left or right blocks to the page.
Deletes the page (this action cannot be undone).
Toward the bottom of the Page List, you can see the text link giving you the option to add a New Page. Please click this link now.
Now we are asked for the Page Details. The first empty field asks you for a Page Title. This is what will display in the center block heading of the new page you create. It can be several words if you like. This also is what will be displayed as the link in your navigation menu. For sample purposes, let us use Contact Us in this field. DO NOT place any HTML code or anything other than plain text in this field! Next is the Link Title. This is the word that is used as the title of the file that is created. Please Note: This must be ONE WORD only or the link will not work. For our purposes, let us use the word Contact in this field. DO NOT place any HTML code or anything other than plain text in this field! Next, we can tell the page setting where we wish the link to display. Either in the top navigation menu across the page, or in the top left block, both top and left block, or neither. For this example, let us choose Both top and Block. Finally, it is asking for the Page Type. This is whether this page will be a plugin module offered by the directory software (ie: business directory, classifieds, coupons, forum, poll, calendar, etc) or if will be an HTML page you will be creating on your own. We need to select HTML (normal web page). Our page should look like the example below before you click the Create Page button.
If it does, go ahead and click the button. If not, please make
any corrections before continuing. Now we can see our Page Details
once again, and even have an opportunity to make any changes we wish in this
editor. Notice there is a new option here. The status is currently set at Hidden.
If you do not change this to Active, your completed page will not be visible
to visitors.
Next, the part we are now interested in, is just below this section.
This is what your editor looks like. You can highlight and
delete the current text displaying there by clicking and holding down your right
mouse button and dragging it over the words Add your content here. And
then clicking the Backspace button on your keyboard. Now you are ready to create
your own text! Each of the buttons along the top tool bar will do something to
effect your page. Hovering your mouse over those options will give you a small
description of the buttons function. Such as the
button will cause you text to be Bold. The
will Italicize text, and the
will underline text. I am not going to go over each and every button
function here, as I am sure your experimenting will show you how much control
and power you will have. Ok, now to create our Contact Page.
To create the above effects, I used the
Center Align
button
to center my text on the page, the font size drop down bar to change the words
Contact Us to a size 4(14pt). Then I used the Bold
button. Next, I used the enter key to move to start a new paragraph. The typed
the second line of text. Then the enter key again and then the Font
Color
button to change the font to green. Then enter again to move to the next line.
Finally, I typed in an email address for them to contact me at. Upon typing
either an email or an URL, it will automatically create a hyperlink for your
visitors to click.
For help inserting an image, click here.
Note: As a general rule, in order to make your pages fit comfortably in any screen size resolution, your content placed in your center panel should not exceed 470 pixels in width and your blocks should not exceed 145 pixels in width (collectively 760 pixels). Anything coded larger will create an inconvenient left to right scroll bar for users in 800 x 600 resolutions. To check on an images pixel width, right mouse click on the image and select properties.
This rule applies to those pages utilizing both left and right hand blocks on the page. If you only use the left hand blocks, your content in the blocks can be bumped up a bit width-wise as well as the center page's content.
*Java Script and html code found on other sites: Any html code copy and pasted from outside sources is considered outside content and will not be supported by our staff. There are simply too many codes and languages out there written by people who may or even may not have known what they were doing. Some of these codes may be poorly written, or may be coded in such a way as to not be supported by our editor. By placing 'code' from other sources in the editor may cause the following:
Improper displaying of content when viewed in the browser
Locking the 'Update Button' after saving so no further changes can be made
Distorting the page and payout of the page the content was added to, causing blocks to display in 'wrong' areas, causing blocks not to display at all.
All of these effects are caused by the code entered into the editor, not of any fault with our software. If this issue occurs, the content will be deleted by our staff. I am sure you understand that it is simply too time consuming for our staff to try to find every instance of poor coding found from other sources on the Internet.
WYSIWYG Icons and what they do:
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Below this editor table are some Advanced Settings. If you are unsure about what to place in these area, please leave them alone. This is for advanced programming only. Below I have explained their functions:
Custom HEAD tags: This is any information that would normally be applied to the head tags of an html page. Such as page specific meta tags. If you use a meta tag generator you can paste the code it generates here. Or any code like Java that may require a portion be entered into the Head tags. Nothing inserted into this area is supported by our staff. Any problems with any content entered here will simply be removed once reported as an issue. Note: Do not repeat the <Head> tag itself. It is already coded to automatically display it as part of our software. Duplicating Head tags will cause the function to not display (or perform). Nothing inserted into this area is supported by our staff. Any problems with any content entered here may simply be removed once reported as an issue.
Body tag attributes: Body tag attributes are extra things you'd like to put in the HTML <BODY> tag... for example, if you wanted to put a JavaScript on the page and have it auto-start when the page loads, you'd put the actual "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='javascript'> (yada yada) </SCRIPT>" in the "Custom HEAD tags" section, and then set the "Body tag attributes" to "onLoad='initMyScript()'". This will also allow you to call a background image or color associated only with this page by entering the cod like: BACKGROUND='/my/background/image.jpg' Note: Do not repeat the <Body> tag itself. It is already coded to automatically display it as part of our software. Duplicating Body tags will cause the function to not display (or perform). Nothing inserted into this area is supported by our staff. Any problems with any content entered here may simply be removed once reported as an issue.
Cache lifetime: The "Cache lifetime" is how long you'd like the page to remain cached. Of course, you don't want to keep that "stored" copy around forever - you want it refreshed on a regular basis to keep it up-to-date. So if you set the cache lifetime to 3600 seconds (1 hour), the "stored" copy would be refreshed every 1 hour. (The "stored" copy is also updated any time you edit anything in your control panel.) For pages that change very infrequently (like the "contact" or "about" page), you might want to set it to, say, 24 hours or something, because it doesn't really need to be refreshed once an hour.
But for now we will leave this section with it's default settings. Ready to create your page?? Ok. Just click the Update Page button and away we go! Now you will get an Update Successful message. You should be able to see a new link that says Contact in the top navigation and the left block navigation. Go ahead and click it to view your page. Feel free to edit or add as many pages as you want. All new pages will have your current theme setting as it's header.
Close this browser window to return to the Guide. Or click to move on to the next section: Blocks
FAQ'S
Q. Each page has a cache value on it. What exactly does that do?? If I want a new page to load each time should it be set at 0??
A. The "Cache lifetime" is how long you'd like the page to remain cached for. When utilizing the cache option, all database processing is eliminated, and the page is displayed lightning-fast. You can learn more about this by clicking the Page Editor link above.Q. Can we add a page that has a shopping cart feature, or links to 2Checkout?
A. Yes. The editor will accept the forms of html necessary to support PayPal and 2Checkout shopping carts.Q. Is there a way to add fonts to the list of available fonts?
A. You will not be able to add fonts to the system, however, you can change the html code for the font style by clicking the Toggle html button, and then changing the font name from there. You can learn more about this by clicking the Page Editor link above.Q. I have been creating pages using the Page Editor and sometimes when I finish my work it ends up being lost because the site has timed me out and I end up at the Login Page. Why?
A. Users are automatically logged out after a certain period of time if they don't do anything (eg: load a different page, etc). This time limit is set by PHP, and defaults to 1 hour because most users aren't idle for that long unless, they've left the site.Q. I have been trying to add a script I found on another site to my editor. I am using the 'toggle source' option and pasting in the code properly, but it will not work on my site. Why?
A. This happens because the WYSIWYG editor is an HTML editor, so it cannot support all other language codes. We have made a 'roundabout' attempt to allow JavaScript anyway (applied on 2-2-04), but you may still have some issues. As much as we would like to have our software support every new technology and language available on the Internet, this is just not possible. But we will continue to offer enhancements and improvements as time allows.Q. Can I add text above (or below) the business, coupons, classifieds categories?
A. Yes. This is not done using the page editor, though. it is done in the Business Directory ( or Coupons, Classifieds), General Settings. Please see the Chapters on these sections in the Guide for more information.Q. Is there a way for me to tell how many visitors my sites receives?
A. The CPanel offers this kind of statistics, and visitors relating to hits, etc.
The software will not break it down according to pages, however. Pages in the .html and .htm formats do not exist. Technically only one file is being visited. All pages are 'pulled' from the database.Q. What goes in the Alternate Text field when trying to upload an image?
A. The alternate text field is where you can describe an image in case it is not viewable to a visitor for some reason, such as if they have a setting in their browser set to not display images or perhaps they have a slow connection and the browser 'times out' before the images load. The alternate text will let them know what 'should' have been there.Q. Is there any way to substitute my own customized menu for the navigation block and then maintain it myself?
A. No. It is locked in. We had to choose simplicity in order to allow our software to be administered by just about anyone. In order to do that some loss of control was necessary.
Please visit the Knowledge Base in our Support Center for many other FAQs and their answers.