Welcome to the online help. This help is divided into the several
administration areas. But before starting to create pages or users you
might at first configure the main settings of the website. This settings
you find under
chapter 1.9 or directly in the
administration interface via Configuration->Settings.
You enter the main area direcly after your login. The following settings
are available in here:
Here you can edit the contents of the pages that are to be shown in your
website. Select the edit-icon to edit the content of a page and choose
finally "Save" to apply your changes or "Cancel" to discard them.
You may edit the contents either as plain HTML or you might use the
WYSIWYG-editor.
If a page is not of the type "Page with content", you may find another
button edit the specific additional content (e.g. for a picture gallery).
Here you define the structure of your website. Choose "new page" to create
a new page, "Delete" to delete a page, "Edit" to modify a page or "Lock" and
"Unlock" to remove a page temporary from your website without deleting it.
Pages can be of differnt types, a normal "Page with content" as well as a
page with additional content e.g. gallery or link-list. An exception is the
page type "Link" - this kind of pages do not own a content and are just
pointing to a page inside your website or one from the internet.
Important settings for pages:
- Title - the title of the page
- Navigation title - the title for the navigation entry
- Navigation level - defines the navigation level in which the page
should be shown (navigations levels start at 0, if the page should not be
included you can also choose -1 in here)
- Navigation position - defines the position of the page within the
navigation (higher values definer upper positions, lower values lower positions)
- Show navigations levels - defines the navigations levels (if there
are multiple), that should be shown on this page. If your website has only
one navigation level, you can leave this field empty
- Show in navigation - defines if the page should be shown in
navigation (or e.g. if the page is just to be linked to)
- Is main page - defines, if a page should be a mainpage for a website
- select this for a single page only
- Not deletable - a security mechanism which allows you to avoid
deleting important pages
Other page types (like gallery or link-list) contain additional parameters
to be filled.
NOTE: A link for an internal page can be copied from the
"Page-link" field of the pages or page content list.
Here you can mange the images that you want to use within your pages
("New page image", "Edit", "Delete", "Lock"/"Unlock"). These images do
not affect extended page types like e.g picture galleries - these
pages manage their images theirselves.
Page files behave like pages are images, but these
intended as downloads (e.g. PDF files) within the pages.
NOTE: To retrieve the link for an image, copy the text of the
"Image link" field and paste it into the desired page content.
Here you can configure a page that becomes temporary the start-page of your
website, e.g. to indicate important changes towards the user. This splash page can
contain a text and an image. Keep in mind to not activate this page all the
time because it may scare off potential visitors.
Here you can configure a page that becomes temporary the start-page of your
website, to do a survey or raffle with your visitors. A survey needs a title,
a question, a set of possible answers and free definable input fields
for things you want to know about the users - e.g. name, email, address...
You may also select, if you want to receive notifications via mail.
This page shows a list of the results of the survey page. You may delete
results in here.
This is a specific page, that can be shown if you want to update your website
or do the first installation of it. You may also use an image and a content
for this page in here.
Here you can send a newsletter to users that have the newsletter-flag set.
This users shall register themselves on a newsletter page of your site to
avoid sending spam!
This defines the basic parameters of your website.
- Website tiele - the title of your website
- Charset - the character set of your website (e.g. UTF-8)
- Description: - the website description
- Search engine keywords: - keywords for search engines
- Website URL: - the URL to your website (e.g. www.mysite.com)
- Revisit interval: - for search engines, e.g. 3days,
5days, 7days etc.
- Enable form SPAM-protection: - if activated, all forms
(guestbook, contact, newsletter, form) contain an additinal checksum
which must be entered - this prevents computer programs (bots) from
sending SPAM through this pages.
- Contact email-address: - the email-address that should be used
for contact-pages
- Display counter on main page - your website counts the visitors
automatically. If you want this shown to the visitor, you may activate this
- Language - switches the language
- Enable WYSIWYG-editor - defines, if you may edit page contents
by the help of an WYSIWYG editor (easier for beginners) or as plain HTML
- Wrap text - Defines, if long lines should be wrapped
- Restrict images - select this, if you want to restrict the image
measurement for site images to be uploaded
- Image background color - The background color for images that
cannot be strechted to the given measurements (affects other pages types
that use images, too)
There are the follwing user types
- Reporter - a user that is allow to manipulate page contents
- Site owner - a user that can manage the whole website
- Administrator - a user that can manage even system critical tasks
It depends on the way you want to manage your website, if you even need several
users. But anyway, a user should have an alias and a password to log into
the admistrative area.
Here you can have a look at the emails which are genereted by the system.
You have also the possibility to delete them in here.
This allows you to switch the design of your website (if several themes are
available). The advantage of a theme is, that you can change it without taking
care of your website structure or its contents (in most cases).
Here you may change or restore the main logos of your website..
Shows you some basic informations about your website (server settings,
PHP settings, software settings, visitors count, ...).
Shows the PHP-info. This might be useful for error detection. Not necessary
for the normal website duty..
This allows you direct access to all files and folders of the application and
the ability to modify them.
Here you can rename or delete files and folders as well as creating new
folders and upload new files. Existing files can be edited in here if they
are plain textfiles.
NOTE: You should only make changes here, if you are an experienced user!